Andrea Jenkins is the Associate Director of Gift Planning at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most recently, Andrea was appointed as the Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor at Winston-Salem State University in May of 2023 where she served until June of 2024. Prior to this role, she served as the Director and Senior Director of Development for Major and Planned Gifts at Winston-Salem State University. Over the past decade, Andrea focused on gift planning where she established a thriving legacy society program, inducting over 200 new members to the Heritage Society since 2015.
During Andrea’s tenure at Winston-Salem State University, she provided leadership over several programs including the Annual Fund, Major and Planned Giving, Donor Relations and Advancement Services. She has experience benchmarking gifts of insurance, increasing blended gifts, and closing gifts of real estate and tangible personal property.
In 2017, Andrea was instrumental in WSSU becoming a NC Gift Planning LLC partner with the UNC System. From 2017-2020, Andrea closed 5 charitable gifts of real estate in Edenton, NC. The donors were featured in the 2023 UNC Investment fund annual report. In 2020, she established the Gift of Property committee to provide oversight for potential gifts of real estate and tangible personal property. In her current role at UNC Chapel Hill, Andrea booked her largest deferred gift commitment, single gift of $10 million dollars for Covenant scholarships. Prior to this role, Andrea served as a Major Gifts Officer for Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
In 2023, Andrea earned the designation of Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy, CAP®, a Master of Public Administration in Nonprofit Management from High Point University 2009 and a Bachelor of Arts from The University of North Carolina Greensboro 2004.
Andrea is a former President of the North Carolina Council of Charitable Gift Planners and member since 2015. She's served as a two-time chair of the Major and Planned Gifts Committee for the UNC System's Advancement Symposium. Currently, she serves as co-chair for the University’s Development Inclusion Committee at Carolina. For the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners, she has served on the Nominating Committee. Currently, she serves on the 2025 CGP DEI committee.
