Create a Lasting Legacy
With Your Gift

With gift planning, you can provide long-lasting support for Carolina while enjoying financial benefits for yourself. Meet your personal financial goals while making a difference for the University's future.

Learn About Ways to Give

Charitable Bequest

You may be looking for a way to make a significant gift to help further Carolina's mission. A bequest is a gift made through your will or trust. It is one of the most popular and flexible ways that you can support programs at Carolina.

Beneficiary Designation

A beneficiary designation gift is a simple and affordable way to make a gift to support Carolina's future. You can designate Carolina as a beneficiary of a retirement, investment, bank or other financial account, or your life insurance policy.

IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution

If you are 70½ or older you may also be interested in a way to lower the income and taxes from your IRA withdrawals. An IRA qualified charitable distribution is a way you can help support the University's work and receive benefits now.

Our Mission

You can make a significant difference in the lives of others as well as advance our mission and goals by planning a future gift that is both meaningful and lasting.

Your involvement can help us fulfill our mission through many different ways.

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Your feedback will help us stretch every contribution even further so that together we can ensure that Carolina will remain a truly public, preeminent global institution of research, scholarship, service and creativity.