How can you help - today, tomorrow, forever
Contact us today to explore how you can help. Call or email Jim Thomas at 734.998.7705 in the Office of Medical Development and Alumni Relations.
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Today
An expendable gift to provide scholarship support, research support or
program support can be used immediately to benefit a student in need,
a researcher waiting for new funds to continue his or her work, to provide
play materials for children in the hospital, to make a difference in a
hundred ways large and small. Depending on your particular interest, there
are many, many satisfying ways to have an immediate impact on some area
of the Health System, and to be acknowledged for your gift.
Tomorrow
Not everyone has the ability to make a sizeable gift to a charitable institution
in the earlier years of their life, but many people have the ability to
do so in their later years via a planned gift or via a bequest. Such a
gift is a wonderful way to make a commitment to the promise in medicine
that lies ahead. Such a gift, as in the case of a charitable remainder
trust or charitable gift annuity, provides income during your lifetime
as well as the assurance that your gift will have an impact on the future
of medicine long after you are gone.
Forever
A gift for a permanent endowment is a gift forever, a gift that will generate
distributions to benefit the institution in perpetuity. What does this
mean? It means that a professorship, year by year, will grow larger and
larger so that the holder, who will always be identified by the name of
the benefactor who established the professorship, has greater resources
to support his or her teaching and research. It means that a scholarship
fund, year by year, will be able to help more and more students with the
expenses of a medical education. It means that a research fund, as it
grows larger, can fund the latest work with the most promise, a gift inherently
historic but always allowing others to move confidently, boldly into the
future.