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The Carolina Parents Council,Ā consisting of 81 University-affiliated families, gave $92,000Ā this past weekend to fund on-campus grant proposals in efforts to improve the undergraduate experience. Each participating family pays $1,250 as a membership fee and then allocates a generous sum of their remaining time and monetary resources to the Council.

The HAVEN and One Act programs, sexual and domestic violence prevention organizations, received $13,151.09, the largest grant of the year.

Student Body President Mary Cooper founded the Student Enrichment Fund in an effort to increase student attendance at off-campus events. Cooper received $5,000 this year for that fund.

On-campus organizations must apply to receive funding from the Parents Council. Applications received in December are reviewed by the Council in January and February.

Z Capital PartnersĀ and itsĀ President and CEO, James Zenni, Jr. have given theĀ Kenan-Flagler Business SchoolĀ a three-year, $100,000 grant to improve private equity education in hopes of providing undergraduate and MBA students in that field with better jobs.

The grant will provide multiple programs that will reward hard-working business students in private equity.

One of the programs will bring in more private equity professionals on campus and arrange for more opportunities for students to visit firms. The Alternative Investments Conference, a student-run conference that will include professionals in private equity education, students and practitioners, will be open to those interested in the industry. The grant will also allow for a database that will record Kenan-Flagler alumni, faculty and staff actions in the private equity realm.

Business students will be selected by faculty and student leaders to participate in the programs.

For more information, contact Z Capital’s Mark Semer: (212) 521-4800, or Kenan-Flagler’s Allison Adams: (919) 962-7235, aadams@unc.edu.

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