For the past 150 years, Emory School of Medicine has helped advance the future of medicine by educating young physicians, training specialists, setting standards of patient care and seeking to answer fundamental questions about the causes of diseases and their cures. Your gift to the school will touch the lives of others, often in profound and unexpected ways. Below are several ways you can be a part of the changing medical community and impact the lives of others with your generosity.
As the 2007-2008 fiscal year winds down, please consider making your gift now. We are close to reaching our goal of $1.75 million and your gift before August 31st will help to bring us one step closer. Please consider becoming a Medicine Lamplighter with a gift of $1000 or more to our unrestricted Fund for Emory Medicine or join our 1915 Society with a gift of $1915 in support of our Medical Alumni Scholarship Fund.
Thank you for all you do for Emory School of Medicine. Heather Pharris, Director of Alumni Development Lisa Tillman, Director of Alumni Relations & Constituent Relations Rachel Donnelly, Senior Associate Director of Development
Ruthy Cunningham, Program Development Coordinator
Scholarship
Scholarships attract the brightest, most diverse students and free our students to immerse themselves in 21st century medicine. As the cost of medical education increases nationwide, scholarships allow students to concentrate on medicine – without an overwhelming debt load, which often surpasses $150,000. Scholarship support means more physicians can choose to work with vulnerable populations where they’re most needed. In that way, scholarship gifts are among the most meaningful investments a donor can make.
1915 Society: In 2006, the School of Medicine formed this new society honoring the year the School of Medicine moved to the Emory campus. All alumni and friends who give $1,915 or more annually to the Alumni Scholarship Fund are considered members of the 1915 Society, and first time donors will be recognized with an engraved paving stone around the fountain of the medical education building.
Adopt-a-Doc Scholars: With an investment of $5,000 each year for four years, the named Adopt-a-Doc Scholars will support an Emory School of Medicine student throughout his or her education.
Named Endowed Scholarships: An endowed scholarship is a lasting tribute to the individual for whom it is named and an ongoing source of much-needed funding for Emory medical students. With an investment of $100,000 over a three or four year period, a named endowed scholarship are guaranteed through named endowment funds, and a major portion of the interest income provides much need tuition relief. The remainder of the interest income is returned to the fund’s corpus to protect against inflation and permit the endowment to grow over time.
Fund for Emory Medicine
Your annual support makes an immediate impact as gifts are unrestricted to allow us to address our most urgent priorities including medical education and training, research, and patient care.
Join the 834 Club!
Making a gift has never been this simple, this painless, and this important. To be part of the 834 Club, all you have to do is make a monthly gift of $8.34 or any amount ending in 8.34 including $48.34, $88.34, etc. via credit or debit card. That’s one less triple venti soy latte, one less pizza, one less movie rental with popcorn and candy. It’s also one less check to write, one less stamp to find, and fewer pledge reminders from us. The 834 Club reduces administrative costs so that we can reserve resources for our extraordinary medical students.
Faculty Support
Teaching Awards recognize outstanding teaching within the Emory School of Medicine and are presented annually to faculty members selected by students and peers. Named teaching awards begin at $20,000 and help the recipient spend more time in the classroom mentoring and teaching students. Other ways to support faculty are through funding research programs or endowing a professorship or chair.
Research Funds
Research funds enable talented investigators to develop promising leads that other funders, such as federal sources, might not be willing to support at early stages of discovery. Findings made possible by endowed funds can be leveraged to secure major funding from the NIH and other federal granting agencies. Named training funds begin with a philanthropic investment of $50,000.
Specialty Fund Support for Medical Resident and Fellow Alumni
Annual gifts from alumni to Residency and Fellowship Training programs enable departments to provide trainees with various opportunities to enhance their Emory residency experience. Gifts to these programs provide funding for research, educational conferences, recruitment efforts, international electives, experienced and talented program leadership, visiting professorships and lectureships, equipment, book allotments, and the list goes on. Most importantly, your gifts help Emory to continue attracting the brightest and most enthusiastic students to careers in clinical care, education, and research.
Please direct your annual gift to the department of your choice or consider a gift to the unrestricted annual fund, the Fund for Emory Medicine.
Invest in Emory School of Medicine
Thanks to your generosity, a dedicated young physician with an Emory education will become as comfortable thinking about the health of populations as the inner workings of stem cells, as adept in the nuances of health policy as in the study of molecular biology. Because of your support, Emory medical students will train with equipment that didn’t even exist until a few years ago. Most important, an Emory medical education will always be grounded in compassion, ethics, and a deep understanding of the needs of patients. For all the science, for all the microarrays and nanotechnology and whole-body scanning, medicine still comes down to a deeply human series of interactions. Philanthropy is among the most important of those, and we greatly appreciate your kind consideration.
For information about how you can make a planned gift to Emory, click here.
For more ideas of how you can become a part of the future of medicine at Emory, please contact Heather Pharris or Rachel Donnelly, or call us at 404.727.0462, or toll free, 877.509.9878.
