Alumni and Donors – Giving | NC State Veterinary Medicine

Your Money Where Your Heart Is

Each year, the dedicated caregivers at the College of Veterinary Medicine touch the lives of thousands who face medical emergencies or disease, or who seek to improve the quality of life for their companion animals. The success of our work depends in large part on the gifts and donations from people just like you. Alumni, friends, partners, and animal lovers whose generosity enables many of our efforts.

For donors who are passionate about a specific area of Veterinary Medicine, the Foundation offers a number of different opportunities to direct gifts to those areas.

Giving Opportunities in the Spotlight

New Equine and Farm Animal Veterinary Center

Our Equine Health and Farm Animal Programs are committed to pioneering advances in medical technology and providing the highest level of care to horse owners, trainers, and producers. With your help, NC State’s new Equine and Farm Animal Veterinary Center will set a new standard for equine and farm animal health.

New Magnetic Resource Imaging (MRI)

We believe that health care should be handled in a proactive fashion. Our goal is to fund a new Magnetic Resource Imaging scanner. A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the gold standard in helping veterinary clinicians and scientists to arrive at vital answers to what is going on with their patients and to develop better treatment options. Learn how you can help!

Donor NewsMore stories

Read about our donors, what inspired their gifts and how those gifts are making a difference in the lives of animals and people:

A Distinguished Professorship for an Extraordinary Scientist

Ed Breitschwerdt, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases, came to the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine in 1982, and has influenced students in every CVM class to step through the college’s doors...

A Once-Neglected Stray Receives an Unforgettable Memorial

She was dangerously thin, fleeing in fear at even the sound of a falling leaf. The leather collar around her neck was so tight it was clear she had grown out of it some time ago. Vicki Webb first spotted the reddish-blond Labrador-shepherd mix stray when she began stealing cat food from bowls in the

A Tireless Athlete, an Unforgettable Friend

When Stephanie Jones got married, her photographer got a shot you don’t see in every wedding album. There, smiling out of the frame, is Stephanie in her wedding gown standing with Four Irons Lighter, a horse everybody just called “Socks.” Stephanie got Socks, a registered paint, in high school. She had shown and ridden horses

2018 Scholarship Dinner: Fighting for Education

This past year 220 CVM students had been awarded $728,000 in academic scholarships, with more than $350,000 of that coming from private donors...

CVM Alum Finds Calling, Gives Back

When Nancy Rathbun-Ramsey was a kindergartener in Buffalo, N.Y., she scrawled in crayon what she wanted to be when she grew up. “I put down ‘animal doctor’ because I didn’t know how to spell ‘veterinarian,’” she says. It’s a goal that she realized in 1994, when she graduated from the NC State College of Veterinary

From Seattle With Love

How did someone who has never visited the CVM or had her pet treated in the NC State Veterinary hospital become a faithful patron of the CVM? It turns out that it’s a matter of the heart...