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The UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) depends on the generous gifts of friends who support our work. Learn about some of the NRI's greatest needs below and click the "Donate" button to make your online gift today. For more information about how your gift can help the NRI or other Ways to Give, contact Beverly Jordan, Director of Community Outreach, at 704-250-5008 or beverly_jordan@unc.edu.

Freedom to Discover Fund

The NRI is committed to transforming nutrition worldwide. In order to make revolutionary breakthroughs, our scientists must have the freedom to explore revolutionary theories. Our Freedom to Discover Fund will provide NRI researchers the invaluable seed money needed to pursue the innovative ideas that will lead to ground-breaking discovery and improved health for people around the world.

Blaze new trails to discovery with your gift to the NRI’s Freedom to Discover Fund.

Goal Status

Donors so far: 1 | Amount to Goal: $49,877

Pea Pod – Infant Body Composition System Analysis

The Pea Pod® Infant Body Composition System Analysis provides the most accurate and reliable method of assessing a child’s body composition available today. The information provided by this state-of-the-art equipment is critical to the NRI’s research on childhood obesity. With this addition to the NRI’s Body Composition Lab, researchers will have the tools they need to discover the causes of and, ultimately, provide solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic.

Help the NRI purchase a Pea Pod® and ensure that NRI researchers are employing the most advanced technology to understand one of the most serious issues facing children today, childhood obesity.

Goal Status

Donors so far: 0 | Amount to Goal: $125,000

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