MGH Institute Fund: Make a Gift for Today
The MGH Institute Fund is the most direct way to support the IHP. Your gifts to the MGH Institute Fund support financial aid, student services, institutional support, and instruction and research.
There are many ways to make a gift. Your generosity supports our mission to prepare health professionals and advance care for a diverse society through leadership in education, clinical practice, research and scholarship, professional service and community engagement.
The MGH Institute Fund is the most direct way to support the IHP. Your gifts to the MGH Institute Fund support financial aid, student services, institutional support, and instruction and research.
Members of the Farrisey Society contribute to the MGH Institute through estate, capital, and planned gifts. Through their generosity, they create a legacy that fosters excellence in health care education.
“I joined the Farrisey Society because I understand the value of investing in the Institute. I feel it is important that future students have the opportunity to access the high quality educational experience available at the IHP.”
MGH Institute of Health Professions uses scholarship and other student support funds to attract and retain talented students from all background because the school recognizes a strong connection between a culturally diverse health care workforce and the ability to provide quality, culturally competent patient care. Below are a few examples of the scholarships and awards we offer.
Learn about our scholarship and student support funds:
Linda C. Andrist Scholarship Fund • Kay Bander Scholarship Program
BA Harris Scholarship Fund • Gregory L. Lof Dissertation Research Fund
Presidential Scholarships • Christopher Norman Educational Fund
To learn more about giving opportunities for scholarships at the Institute,
please email Meagan Sheffield or call (617) 643-7194
When long-time Massachusetts General Hospital employee and volunteer Kay Bander passed away in 2017, she generously left a portion of her estate to MGH Institute of Health Professions. The Institute is honoring Kay’s legacy and investment in the school with the “Kay Bander Scholarship Campaign,” which will match gifts of at least $25,000 made to create, or add to an existing, endowed scholarship in 2018. Donors may name the scholarship, which will be recognized as part of the Kay Bander Scholarship Program, and can fund it with the donation of cash, securities, or appreciated assets over five years.
Linda C. Andrist, PhD, RNC, WHNP-BC, has been a steadfast champion of the Institute's faculty, students, and graduates. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Linda served for many years as the Coordinator of the Women’s Health and dual Adult-Women's Health NP specialty, and went on to become the Director of the Graduate Nursing program, during which she helped launch the Institute’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program.
The IHP is establishing a new scholarship to celebrate Linda and her many contributions to the IHP, the discipline of nursing, and the field of women’s health. Your support helps to continue and further Linda’s legacy.
To recognize and honor the profound accomplishments of Leslie Portney, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA, the Institute is proud to establish the Leslie Portney Fund for Interprofessional Leadership which will support students and faculty as they pursue educational and research opportunities that foster interprofessional education and practice.
Distributions will be made for:
Travel by students, faculty, or staff to domestic or international interprofessional meetings or conferences where participants will expand their understanding of interprofessional education and bring new ideas back to the IHP; and/or
To seed new interprofessional projects at the IHP; and/or
To support a faculty member or student to attend a course on interprofessional education.
Ruth Sleeper was a remarkable woman: her visionary plan and determined advocacy for expanded academic preparation paved the way for the current nursing programs at MGH Institute of Health Professions.
Her devotion to students was evident in that she was equally focused on the professional development of the MGH School of Nursing students by teaching interactive classes to first and third year students. She helped lead the way in transforming nursing education by greatly expanding classroom instruction. Miss Sleeper was a national leader in nursing education who helped raise academic standards for the nursing profession.
The Ruth Sleeper Nursing Center for Clinical Education and Wellness at the MGH Institute serves as her living legacy; a place that aspires to train exceptional nursing and health care leaders to provide safe and quality care to patients and communities, to work effectively in cross-discipline, interprofessional teams, and to solve some of the more complex problems in health care today.
The IHP runs a state-of-the-art IMPACT Practice Center, one of the only ones in New England, using an interprofessional model to teach students from different healthcare disciplines how to provide exceptional free supervised care to members of the community.
Please join us by making a donation to name the Marjorie K. Ionta Physical Therapy Center for Clinical Excellence and Health Promotion. Though the goal would be $50,000, thanks to an anonymous donor, your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar, thus reducing our goal to $25,000.
The MGH Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Your gift is tax deductible for charitable purposes to the full extent allowed by law.