Gift Announcements

Stories celebrating philanthropic gifts and the impact donors make possible.

Carolina Stories

A finger skims the page of a 19th-century doctors' notes in a daybook from the Wilson Special Collections Library

5 min read

A match met, a fellowship forever

Bob Lauterborn smiles while standing next to a painting by his late wife on the wall in the background

6 min read

'Absolutely perfect'

Portrait of Olin and Marilyn Setzer Treadway smiling.

4 min read

Planned gift to University Library honors parents

Jason Mihalik, Denise Singleton and Shawn Kane pose at the inaugural Knott Family Bridging Ceremony. Denise is holding a THRIVE plaque.

4 min read

Family gift honors veterans' journey through recovery

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

4 min read

Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

Portrait of Caroline Finch Ives against a geometric multi-toned blue graphic.

3 min read

Enabling researchers to follow their passion

Exterior of Carroll Hall, the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

3 min read

Reporting on N.C.’s Latino communities

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

9 min read

The storytelling of art

Illustration of John Powell and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall from the shoulders up

6 min read

Honoring a pioneering scholar of the South

Ilana Finley sits on a stool in front of a white cloth backdrop.

3 min read

‘Carolina gave me so much’

UNC School of Social Work Dean Ramona Denby-Brinson.

2 min read

Addressing kinship care

A man plays a cigar box fiddle.

2 min read

Archiving African American folklife