University Development News

The strategy behind Carolina’s biggest fundraising campaign The University announced in January that it had surpassed the $4.25 billion goal for its campuswide fundraising drive almost a year before the campaign’s deadline. The Campaign for… read more

The University announced today that it had surpassed the $4.25 billion goal for its campuswide fundraising drive months before the campaign was scheduled to end. The Campaign for Carolina, launched in October 2017 and scheduled to close this… read more

An anonymous donor’s $3 million gift to Carolina Performing Arts will create the first nonfaculty endowed directorship in the arts at Carolina, named for former Chancellor James Moeser and University organist and music department instructor Susan… read more

The Lt. Col. Bernard W. Dibbert Carolina Covenant for Military Families Scholarship has received a $1 million gift from Vaughn Bryson ’60 and his wife, Nancy Faison Bryson ’60. read more

Danny Green ’09, who played in more basketball wins than any Tar Heel, is making a $1 million gift to the University to endow a scholarship in the basketball program. read more

Roy Williams ’72 (’73 MAT) and his wife Wanda Williams ’72 have given $3 million to the University to support scholarships for athletes, Carolina Covenant Scholars and Chancellor’s Science Scholars. read more

Nancy ’74 and Doug Abbey have funded a public discourse speaker series at the University with an $8 million gift. read more

UNC’s School of Nursing has received $6.8 million to fund a world-class nursing simulation center and scholarships for second-career nursing students. read more

Steve Bell ’67 and his wife, Jackie Bell, are adding to a pledge they made earlier this year, and an anonymous donor has pledged a match, for an expansion of Kenan-Flagler Business School that will enable it to grow its undergraduate program at… read more