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Giving
The engagement of alumni, donors and friends is vital to sustaining the VCU School of Medicine’s core values: a life-changing learning experience for students, exceptional care for the sick and a curiosity for medical research and discovery.
Explore this site to discover for yourself how alumni engagement and philanthropic gifts make a difference for our medical students, faculty and programs – as well as for the community – and how you can become a part of it.
Engagement
Discover how you can make a difference for:
Make a Gift
Thank you for your interest in making a gift to the School of Medicine.
You can do so in a number of ways: Outright Gifts by credit card, check or payroll deduction, Gifts of Appreciated Securities, Planned Gifts, and Other Gifts. If you would like to talk to someone about your gift, contact the Office of Medical Philanthropy and Alumni Relations at 800-332-8813, MedAlum@vcu.edu or via our staff directory.
A gift of cash is a simple way to have an immediate impact. Cash gifts may be pledged over several years.
Online
To make a credit card gift online, please use the university's secure giving site.
VCU faculty and staff may make a gift by Payroll Deduction.
By Mail
When making a gift by check, please:
- Make it payable to MCV Foundation.
- Specify the School of Medicine in the memo line along with any info about which fund or department you would like your gift to support.
- Please mail your gift to:
Virginia Commonwealth University
Gifts and Records Management
Box 843042
Richmond, VA 23284-3042
A gift of appreciated securities allows you to support the medical school and derive considerable tax benefits. If you would like to transfer stock, you can find the details to do so on the MCV Foundation website.
If you have included the School of Medicine in your will or have made a life income gift indicating the medical school as the beneficiary, please let us know so that we may recognize you in the MCV Society.
For more information about joining the MCV Society, please contact the Office of Medical Philanthropy and Alumni Relations at 800-332-8813 or MedAlum@vcu.edu, or visit the MCV Foundation's planned giving website.
The MCV Society recognizes individuals who have taken steps to provide support through a bequest or any type of life-income gift including:
Charitable Bequests
For many donors, a gift made through their will is the best way to make a substantial contribution. Donors can leave a specific dollar amount or a percentage of their estate. Through a bequest, a donor can make a gift without depleting current assets and can reduce federal estate taxes.
Life-Income Gifts
These gifts allow a donor to give and receive at the same time. Arrangements vary, but most options offer the following financial benefits:
- An income for life to the donor and a second beneficiary
- A charitable income tax deduction
- A reduction or avoidance of capital gains taxes
- Savings on estate and gift taxes
- A higher rate of return than many current investments
- Professional investment management
- Types of life income gifts include:
- Charitable Gift Annuities: This is essentially a simple annuity contract. A donor transfers assets to the MCV Foundation; in return, the donor receives regular fixed payments for life. Rates vary with age but often outpace other types of investments.
- Deferred Charitable Gift Annuities: An excellent supplemental retirement fund vehicle, payments are deferred to some future date with the payout rate determined by the deferral period and the age of the donor at the time payments begin.
- Charitable Remainder Trusts: These are personalized management plans that are generally established through irrevocable gifts of $250,000 or more. The donor receives an annual income with the rate either being a fixed amount of the assets (annuity trust) or a variable rate based on the principal in the trust that year (unitrust).
If you have recently suffered the loss of a loved one and would like to ask family and friends to make a memorial donation to VCU School of Medicine, VCU Health or one of its patient care units, our staff will personally assist you.
To assure that gifts will be properly directed to the fund of your choice, please include the following language in any printed announcement or obituary. If you need assistance with determining the name of a specific fund, please don’t hesitate to contact our staff at the number below.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the MCV Foundation in support of [CENTER OR FUND], noting on the check's memo line that the gift is in memory of [LOVED ONE’S NAME], and mailed to VCU Gifts & Records, Box 843042, Richmond, VA 23284-3042. Online gifts may be made by visiting support.vcu.edu/give/medicine or support.vcu.edu/give/vcuhealth.
Each person who remembers your loved one with a gift will receive a note of thanks for their generosity and a gift receipt from our office. It will be our pleasure to share the names and contact information of those who give with your designated family representative, so that you may thank donors personally if you wish. We will include a total of what has been raised in memoriam in each report.
If you have chosen to direct memorial contributions to VCU School of Medicine or VCU Health in memory of your loved one, please complete our short contact form so we know how to inform you about gifts received.
Please contact Michelle Holder, Stewardship Coordinator, for more information or with questions at (804) 827-4935 or at holderm2@vcu.edu.
Gifts of life insurance, a retirement plan designation, real estate or other kinds of property are all options for donors. These gifts may be given outright or may be used to fund a life income arrangement.
For more information, please contact the Office of Medical Philanthropy and Alumni Relations at 800-332-8813, MedAlum@vcu.edu or via our staff directory.
Reunion Weekend
If your graduation year ends in 0 or 5, and you graduated between 1970-2015, join us April 4-6 for Reunion Weekend 2025. Festivities include class parties, MCV Campus tours, a dean’s reception and more (see story and photos from Reunion Weekend 2024).
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