UNC Kenan-Flagler Establishes Dudley Carroll Planned Giving Society

October 24, 2008

UNC Kenan-Flagler announces the creation of the Dudley Carroll Society for those donors who make planned gifts to Kenan-Flagler. The society is named for the business school’s first dean, Dudley DeWitt Carroll.

Planned gifts can be a bequest or any number of tax-advantaged methods that begin while the donor is alive. During the eight years of the Carolina First Campaign, Kenan-Flagler received 53 planned gifts of $25,000 or above. More than 30 of those donors have agreed to be founding members of the Dudley Carroll Society. Their names will be listed on a Web site that will explain planned giving.

Going forward, a planned gift of any size will ensure membership in the Dudley Carroll Society.

"Planned giving has always been an important part of our philanthropic efforts at Kenan-Flagler, now more than ever since the largest gifts are often planned," says Kenan-Flagler’s associate dean for external affairs, Jim Gray. "We established this society not only to thank and honor those founding members but also to recognize those making gifts in the future."

"Ultimately, our goals are to involve society members in planning for the school’s future and to motivate others to give," says Gray. UNC Kenan-Flagler is the fourth academic unit on campus to create its own giving society for planned gifts and it will complement the University’s overall planned giving society, The Gerrard Legacy Society. The Gerrard Society was established to ensure that the University appropriately recognizes those alumni and friends who have created their own Carolina legacy through documented planned gifts.

Dudley Carroll helped establish the University’s Department of Commerce in 1919, which was later renamed Kenan-Flagler Business School in 1991. During the 31 years Carroll served as dean, the school awarded its first undergraduate and doctoral degrees, created the Business Foundation and moved twice to accommodate growth.

For more information on the society or how you can create your own Carolina legacy, please contact Eddie Sartin at 962.3195 or