#GiveUNC

A day of action. make a lasting difference

Join us June 16, 2020 as we celebrate #GiveUNC and support innovation and entrepreneurship at Carolina. Your support will help our most inventive and industrious students and faculty put their ideas to use for the public good.

#GiveUNC is a 24-hour virtual gathering of Tar Heel alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students, and friends to give back and support Carolina. Every gift made online and through phone-a-thon on June 16 counts toward the total, regardless of designation. The #GiveUNC website displays a real-time running tally of the total number of gifts and dollars raised overall. This event may last only 24 hours, but your support creates transformational experiences for future Tar Heels and makes a profound, lasting impact around the state, nation and world.

Make a gift to innovation. Make a difference to student and faculty innovators.

By supporting Innovate Carolina, you provide tools and resources that students and faculty need to move important ideas from labs and classrooms into the world.

● Social innovation. Programs that promote social good: food security, racial justice, clean energy, STEM education, and more.

● Student entrepreneurship and ventures. Providing students with funding and guidance to jumpstart entrepreneurial projects and their own companies.

● Scientific and technological breakthroughs. Bringing new therapies and cures to people who need them.

● Startup services. Helping faculty and student founders with mentorship, funding and space for their young businesses – the foundation of tomorrow’s economy.

Innovation Success Stories

Innovate Carolina has many success stories of working with student and faculty innovators to put their ideas to use for the public good

UNC interns experience virutal startup summer. A new online internship program launched by UNC innovation and entrepreneurship leaders connects students with startups to solve complex problems 

Innovate Carolina activates entrepreneurial mentors to rally local startups. Startup consulting engagements bring together a dozen serial entrepreneurs who offer coaching, funding connections and business service support    

Protecting those who protect us. Innovate Carolina works with UNC makerspaces to help create face shields for medical workers during COVID-19.

A material difference. Innovate Carolina team supports the quick transfer of research materials to rapidly advance COVID-19 drug testing.

From pandemic downturn to startup upswing. Innovate Carolina’s KickStart Venture Services is working with a new surge of UNC-based startup companies on strategy, funding and space planning during the pandemic

Jumpstarting student startups. The 1789 Student Venture Fund helps students who want to explore, test and grow their ideas for early startups.

Mapping social impact solutions. Innovate Carolina works with students to participate in global competition that uses systems mapping to explore how social problems can be solved by understanding knowledge gaps.

Share your experience. And your passion for innovation.

After you make your gift, share your story and encourage others to do the same. Tell the world why you support innovation and entrepreneurship at Carolina, and tag your post with #GiveUNC.

Here are a few examples to get you started:

Join me celebrating #GiveUNC by making a gift to @InnovateUNC. Pick your cause and help students and faculty put more ideas to use for the public good: innovate.unc.edu/giving

Today is #GiveUNC day, and I'm supporting innovation and entrepreneurship with a gift to @InnovateUNC. Students and faculty use their ideas to make a human and economic impact. You can make a difference, too: innovate.unc.edu/giving

What am I for? Celebrating #GiveUNC Day and helping @InnovateUNC turn ideas with potential into human progress. New cures. Better treatments. Social impact. Economic growth. Tar Heels innovate for all: innovate.unc.edu/giving

Put the #GiveUNC spirit on your social pages

Thank you for participating in GiveUNC, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s second-annual giving day. One of the best ways to join us is by sharing GiveUNC content online via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Download graphics and photos to include on your social media accounts.