Carolina for Kibera highlighted in UNC Institute for Global Health + Infectious Diseases launch

Since being named the endorsed fund by the senior Class of 2008, Carolina for Kibera continues to gain momentum on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).  As part of the launch of the new Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at UNC, the Institute highlighted CFK as one of a few "key opportunities for collaboration" and research between students and faculty at the Institute with service-oriented organizations that share similar goals.

Also getting some press on campus at UNC is the CFK Endowment Fund, which was the focus of the article "Carolina for Kibera gets endowment fund" by the student newspaper, The Daily Tarheel.  The article demonstrates how the endowment fund fits in strategically with CFK's goal to become financially sustainable and flexible.  "Grants come with so many strings attached," said Mat Despard, professor at the UNC School of Social Work, in the article.  The endowment will support CFK staff in Kibera to remain programmatically flexible to the changing environment and to evolve as an organization over time.  Learn more about the endowment fund by e-mailing us at cfk@unc.edu.