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#GivingPack

We're doing more, together -- for the now, for the future and for the Pack.

Now and always, your support helps us take a lead role in solving our society’s biggest problems, empowering students to achieve their full potential and expanding access and opportunity throughout North Carolina. Now and always, your support means we can do more to meet the evolving needs of our students, our state and our world.

Our Pack makes our work possible. Below are just a few of the extraordinary ways gifts of all sizes add up on Day of Giving and throughout the year to open doors and change lives.

Extraordinary Opportunity

Nataly sees a bigger and bolder future unfolding for herself thanks to the Extraordinary Opportunity Scholarship.

Meet Nataly Vazquez Perez

Textiles Loaner Program Keeps Students on Track

The Department of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management was able pivot this past year to ensure its students stay engaged in their studio courses.

Read about how TATM supports students

The John and Linda Leazar Award in Entrepreneurship

With a passion for outside-the-box thinking, the Leazars are committed to supporting future generations of entrepreneurs and innovative leaders.

Meet recipient Sam Weaver

Music Students Band Together

The Department of Music took the Pack Twitter-verse by storm as passionate students in the department sought to win bonus funds through social media.

Learn more about how students utilized social media

New Fund Will Support Students through the GLBT Center

A gift from NC State friend Bill Spitz seeds the Dream Fund, which can aid students facing financial hardship, particularly after coming out.

Learn more about what inspired the gift

Extraordinary Opportunity: Will Gibson

CNR student Will Gibson received one of the first Extraordinary Opportunity Scholarships this spring, largely thanks to donors to last year’s Day of Giving.

Meet Will Gibson

Meeting the Demand for Supply Chain Expertise

As COVID-19 continues to impact the global supply chain, Robert Handfield lends his expertise to medical and governmental agencies.

Learn about Handfield’s work

Extraordinary Opportunity: Rome Williams

The only thing more impactful than NC State defensive tackle, Rome Williams, is his Extraordinary Opportunity Scholarship.

Meet Rome Williams, a College of Humanities and Social Sciences student and student-athlete

Hofmeister Awarded Scholarship at the Perfect Time

The Sandy Thach Scholarship in Veterinary Medicine couldn’t have come at a better time for Marisa Hofmeister ’21.

Meet Marisa Hofmeister

New Grant Program Funds Digital Inclusion Projects

The Institute for Emerging Issues, with support from the John M. Belk Endowment, is providing rapid-response mini-grants to North Carolina communities in need.

Pack Essentials Help Address Student Food and Housing Insecurity

The Libraries continues the discussion about student food and housing insecurity at NC State.

Preserve the Pack Athletics Campaign

Contributions to the Preserve the Pack will provide unrestricted funding for NC State Athletics to help cover the funding deficit created by COVID-19.

Learn more about Preserve the Pack

A Better Pack for All

Tyler Allen, ‘14, ‘18 believes supporting campus community centers like Multicultural Student Affairs is investing in the university, and the future.

Hear what he has to say

It Still Takes a Village

A new scholarship is helping an increasingly diverse group of educators prepare for increasingly diverse classrooms. Students all across North Carolina will benefit as a…

Learn about how Darla Buchanan inspired this gift

Investing in the Next Generation

James “Jim” Hayne ‘88 was inspired by fellow Poole College alumni to endow the James H. Hayne Scholarship.

Learn more

Kenan Fellows Take STEM Education to the Next Level

At NC State, an investment in innovative K-12 teachers is an investment in students’ success.

CALSPack Leader Shares Why He’s #GivingPack

Chad Benton wants to show current and future students that NC State’s alumni are invested in them.

Learn why he hopes you’ll join him too

Women Giving Back, Together

Wolfpack Women in Philanthropy is helping women connect to opportunities campus wide – and connect with one another.

See how these women are making a difference

Take a Virtual Tour of Fitts-Woolard Hall

Thanks to the generosity of donors, NC State Engineering opened a brand new building on Centennial Campus in 2020.

Take a tour of the future of engineering

On the Road to Success

Elizabeth Dogbe ’21, Park Scholar, is graduating this December ready to pursue a meaningful career making transit systems more equitable.

Meet Elizabeth Dogbe

Scholarship Honors Legacy of an NC State Pioneer

To honor the memory of Jack Stewart, the DiFiore family recently established The Jack Stewart Scholarship in the College of Sciences for future STEM educators.

Learn more about Jack Stewart’s legacy

Day of Giving Profile: Edgar Mancia Garcia

Edgar Mancia Garcia ’20 found a community and formed meaningful bonds with fellow NC State students, with the help of Multicultural Student Affairs.

Meet Edgar Mancia Garcia

Investing in Our Pack

Private support is changing the way we can respond to student needs — because no member of the Pack should be left behind.

Learn more

Helping International Students

NC State administrators have sought alternatives for international students facing challenges due the pandemic who don’t qualify for most federal assistance.

Learn how you can support our international students

Day of Giving Profile: Kali Fillhart

The stars aligned for Kali Fillhart ‘21 when she came to NC State and developed her passion for activism and feminism.

Meet Kali Fillhart

Black Alumni Society Scholarships Honor Legacies

Drs. Augustus McIver Witherspoon and Lawrence Mozell Clark made history and shaped academic life at NC State and for Black students.

Through the Darkness to Shine a Light

Having overcome her own challenges, Esmira Poladova ’20 has become an advocate for underresourced students.

Learn more about her journey

Endowed Scholarship Honors Veterinary Alum Tracy Hanner

The fund supports underrepresented minority students at the College of Veterinary Medicine, particularly those coming from underserved communities.

Learn about Hanner’s career and influence

From Grief to Hope

Steven Grant Somers’ passing left his family determined to help others through their grief.

Learn how they’re supporting the Pack

A Movement of Generosity

Kevin Miller ’13 teamed up with Caldwell Fellows and other alums to launch a website to make it easy for people to contribute their stimulus checks to nonprofits.

See how a group of alums is making a difference

NC State Food Pantry Rallies to Stay Open

Thanks to a massive campus-wide effort, the Feed the Pack food pantry continues to serve the students, faculty and staff who need it most.

Read how the pantry is sustaining the Pack

A New Scholarship Is in the Works from NC State’s Latinx Alumni Network

The Latinx Alumni Network is working to fund a new scholarship.

Learn more

Pack Essentials Aids Students During Financial Hardships

Created in 2017 to address food and housing insecurities among NC State students, Pack Essentials is providing critical resources during the pandemic.

Read about this extraordinary program

$8.1M+ in Gifts Fuel Greenhouse Gas Research

Through the generosity of our donors, we expand our abilities to teach, conduct research and apply our knowledge through our extension service.

Learn more about how private support for research impacts citizens, farmers and students

Lighting the Torch for Future Students

The women of the Mu Omicron chapter of Delta Sigma Theta have established a legacy as trailblazers over the course of the group’s 45-year history.

Read about how five them came together to support future students

A Meal and a Night Out

Richard “Gus” Gusler, owner of the landmark Players Retreat restaurant, has worked to give NC State students facing food insecurity nutritious meals with dignity.

Learn about what inspired him

COVID-19 Impacts First-Generation Students

The novel coronavirus pandemic has impacted students everywhere, but many first-generation students face added obstacles.

Resources are available to students in need

Why I Give: College of Design’s Katherine Peele

Support she received as a student inspires alumna and volunteer Katherine Peele to give back.

Read about Katherine’s commitment

Aligning Strengths

The Comparative Medicine Institute is making NC State a destination for innovative research and training in biomedical sciences.

Learn how CMI can “do” as well as “think”

College of Sciences Announces New Diversity Program Endowment

The endowment will help fund recruitment events, career panels, student club activities and more for underrepresented students.

Learn how you can contribute

Nonwovens Institute Steps Up to Combat COVID-19

NWI is using its production lines to create personal protective equipment for health care workers on the front line of the pandemic.

Learn more about NC State ingenuity

Standing Together, Even When Apart

NC State staff and faculty have risen to meet the challenges posed by COVID-19. Here are just a few of their stories.