Strong alumni support remains one of the School’s most steadfast and proud traditions.
The School’s mission is as ambitious as it is honorable: to improve health and well-being for all. To achieve this mission, we depend on your philanthropic support.
Harvard Medical School has set up two critical funds related to the coronavirus pandemic:
- The Student Emergency Aid Fund provides temporary, need-based financial assistance to MD students who are struggling with unanticipated situations and stressors while trying to manage demanding academic requirements. Funds may be granted to cover temporary housing, meals, and other essential needs; travel costs associated with a personal or family emergency; unforeseen or unusually high medical expenses; and unexpected financial aid needs.
- The COVID-19 Response and Research Fund enables us to convene clinicians and scientists to address the immediate challenges of the current global pandemic and to create a rapid-response system to deal with future outbreaks. This collaborative approach focuses on six key areas: epidemiology, diagnostics, pathogenesis, clinical disease management, treatment, and vaccines.
To make a gift, please visit our secure online gift form and then select the fund name from the dropdown menu.
A gift of any size to these or other School priorities, like financial aid, will uplift our community and advance HMS’s mission of education, research, and service during this challenging time.
Make an Outright Gift
Outright gifts, which are counted in your class giving totals, are a donation of cash or other assets, such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, retirement plan assets, and/or personal property.
- Visit our secure online gift form »
- Make a check payable to Harvard Medical School and mail to:
Harvard Medical School
Alumni Affairs and Development
P.O. Box 419720
Boston, MA 02241-9720
Please include a note with your full name, address, and phone number - Call 617-384-8500
New Charitable Gift Tax Deductions
The Federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed in March includes two provisions that provide tax incentives for 2020:
- Donors who do not itemize deductions on their taxes can now deduct up to $300 in cash gifts.
- Donors of cash gifts can now deduct up to 100 percent of their adjusted gross income (does not apply to gifts contributed to donor-advised funds).
More Ways to Give
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Tribute Gifts
- Make your gift in honor of someone, in celebration of a special occasion, or in memory of a loved one.
- Mail your check, made payable to Harvard Medical School, and including a note with your full name, address, phone number, and who your gift is honoring, to:
Harvard Medical School
Alumni Affairs and Development
P.O. Box 419720
Boston, MA 02241-9720
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Securities (Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds)
- To make a gift of securities, please contact the Harvard Management Company at 866-845-6596 or security_gifts@hmc.harvard.edu. Learn more about gifts of stock »
- To ensure proper processing of your gift, please notify Harvard of the stock transfer by completing this online form.
- All mutual fund transfers must be coordinated with Harvard Management Company. For HMC to determine the appropriate instructions, please call 866-845-6596 or email security_gifts@hmc.harvard.edu with the following information: the name of the mutual fund, the number of shares, date of acquisition, and where the fund shares are currently held.
- For more information, please contact our gift planning team at 617-384-8449 or 800-922-1782 or email giftplanning@hms.harvard.edu.
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Real Estate or Personal Property
- Donate your personal residence, vacation home, farm or agricultural land, ranch, commercial property or lot, undeveloped or unimproved land or consider works of art, antiques, gold, stamps, coins, jewelry, patents, copyrights, etc.
- For more information, please contact our gift planning team at 617-384-8449 or 800-922-1782 or email giftplanning@hms.harvard.edu.
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Retirement Plan Assets
- Use assets from your IRA, Keogh, TIAA-CREF, tax-deferred annuity, or qualified pension or profit-sharing plan.
- If you are 72 years old or older, you can transfer up to $100,000 from your IRA directly to Harvard Medical School.
- Instruct your IRA administrator to transfer your selected dollar amount (up to $100,000 per year) directly to HMS using the form letter linked below:
Download the IRA Rollover Letter of Instruction provided by HMS here [PDF] » - For more information, please contact our gift planning team at 617-384-8449 or 800-922-1782 or email giftplanning@hms.harvard.edu.