By supporting the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, you are ensuring that students realize their dreams of a Carolina education, faculty have the resources available to perform innovative research and scientists can find better treatments and cures for diseases. Whatever your interest, you can make a difference with a gift to Carolina.
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The Carolina Fund ensures we have flexible funding to meet critical campus needs and seize emerging opportunities that will enrich our students' experience and advance our faculty's research and scholarship.
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The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is an internationally recognized leader in pharmacy practice, education, and research. We develop leaders in pharmacy education, pharmacy practice, and pharmaceutical sciences who make a difference on human health worldwide. The School offers opportunities in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences that are simply not available anywhere else.
Your gift is an investment in the transformative education, groundbreaking research and innovative practice of our students, staff and faculty that touch all 100 North Carolina counties, communities across the United States and 62 countries around the world.
UNC Health Foundation, encompassing the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals, works to affect the future of healthcare at every level, from life-saving research, to outstanding patient care, to life-changing scholarships. Our generous supporters are at the center of everything we do.
Unlocking tomorrow's cures and treatments begins today. Your gift to the Medical Discovery Research Fund will support research at the earliest stages—before grant money can be applied for. Private support ensures that today’s promising ideas have a chance to become tomorrow’s breakthroughs!
Your gift will support patient and family programs taking place across UNC Hospitals. From patient and family assistance (such as gas cards, groceries, or rent for a family struggling financially due to an illness), to other patient and family related priorities—you will help ease the burden. Your support allows patients and families to focus on the most important thing, their health.
Children and families are at the heart of everything we do. At UNC Children’s, our exceptional clinical care ensures that no child needs to leave North Carolina for treatment of any medical condition regardless of how critical or rare the challenge– and always regardless of a family’s ability to pay. Your support will make an impact on children’s health here in North Carolina and around the world.
Your gift to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the only public National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in North Carolina, provides resources for physicians and scientists to uncover the causes of cancer at the genetic and environmental levels, to conduct groundbreaking laboratory research, and to translate findings into innovative clinical trials.
Your gift provides unrestricted support critical to meeting today’s greatest education needs. Loyalty Fund scholarships ease the burden of debt, and enrichment funds defray expenses for students and faculty seeking research, service, academic and global educational experiences.
UNC’s initiatives in brain health span multiple departments, centers, and divisions across medicine. This multidisciplinary group aims to understand one of our most complex and awe-inspiring organs. From Parkinson’s—to Alzheimer’s—to Autism, your support allows our scientists and clinicians to continue working to improve brain function throughout the entire lifespan.
With your support, the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases is committed to improving health in North Carolina and around the world through global health research, teaching, and service. We maintain five global flagship health sites in Malawi, China, Zambia, Nicaragua, and Vietnam. We have created a framework of medical sites around the world dedicated to improving the delivery of modern healthcare. The ability to devise a reproducible model in settings around the world has made the UNC approach achievable and sustainable.
The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center is a cancer research and treatment center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the only public National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in North Carolina.
Your gift to UNC Lineberger provides resources for physicians and scientists to uncover the causes of cancer at the genetic and environmental levels, to conduct groundbreaking laboratory research, and to translate findings into innovative clinical trials.
UNC School of Medicine educates competent and caring physicians and health care professionals for the state of North Carolina. Our curriculum provides students with an individualized education that allows them to deepen their knowledge through research, service and clinical opportunities, grounded in the foundational basic science education that has always been core to our mission.
Through private support, we are able to provide opportunities for students to become well-rounded, expert and compassionate clinicians, researchers and leaders.
Once completed in 2022 this new home for medical education will rest on the historic Berryhill Hall site and shape the future of health care in North Carolina and beyond. Public investment laid the cornerstone for our new building, which will educate more UNC health care professionals, facilitate delivery of our nationally recognized curriculum and drive UNC to the forefront of public medical schools. Every gift lays the foundation for this new home, and naming opportunities are available starting at $2,000.
The MED program provides a structured, rigorous summer curriculum for aspiring medical and dental students. In addition to preparing deserving students to competitively apply for admissions, the program provides clinical and career skills and a professional network to support career success. Your gift funds tuition costs to ensure students participate at no cost to them.
Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC) is a student-led, volunteer organization whose mission is to provide free health services to uninsured and underinsured families in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Durham. In addition to clinical care, SHAC collaborates with communities to develop and implement sustainable programs to improve health and reduce sickness. SHAC is fully funded through private support, and your gift today will cover essential clinical, medical and programmatic expenses.
The Office of Global Health Education makes possible global medical education experiences for medical students and residents. Whether traveling to Central America, India, the UK, Europe, Africa or other opportunities around the world, students gain invaluable cultural and clinical experience. Your gift to this global programmatic fund provides flexible funding to meet today’s greatest global education needs.
The Academy of Educators supports excellence in medical education at UNC School of Medicine. By emphasizing teaching and faculty development in Chapel Hill and across the state, this peer-driven group is leading the way in effective and innovative teaching. Across specialties, faculty and residents are striving to improve their teaching and further raise the profile of UNC medical education through academic scholarship.
Payroll deduction is a great way to support UNC for both University employees and UNC Hospital employees!
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