Plan a Major Gift
When you make a major gift, you can change the course of pediatric care and research and save countless children's lives. A major gift gives you the chance to make an immeasurable difference for children and meet other like-minded donors and doctors working toward the same goal.
Major gifts, major impacts
As you decide how to designate your major gift, our staff is here to assist. We can help you explore how your generosity can speed research from the laboratory to the bedside; support important new services for our young patients and their families; renovate or construct new facilities; or establish programs for the many kids we care for in Boston's inner-city neighborhoods.
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Naming Fund Opportunities
When you establish an endowed fund, you create an intergenerational investment in the good health of future generations of children.
Endowed named fund: Established with minimum $50,000 gift
- May remain unrestricted or be designated for a specific purpose
- Five percent of fund’s market value (principal balance plus earnings) supports an area you designate
- Gift invested in perpetuity
- Gift may be cash or stocks, or a multi-year pledge (five-year maximum).
- You will receive an annual report on the fund.
- Boston Children’s will invite you and your family to meet with the fund recipient and/or learn how the fund is being used via lectures and other opportunities.
- The fund can receive additional gifts.
Examples
- Lecture Series: $100,000
- Fellowship: $1 million
- Children’s Chair: $2 million
Expendable named fund: Established with minimum $25,000 gift
- Provides essential funding to a program, doctor or nurse you would like to support
- Your gift may be cash or stocks, or a multi-year pledge (five-year maximum).
- You will receive an annual report on the fund for as long as it stays open.
- Boston Children’s will invite you and your family to meet with the fund recipient and/or learn how the fund is being used via lectures and other opportunities.
- The fund can be replenished with more gifts.
- This fund will remain open until the balance runs down to zero dollars.
Examples
- Annual Fellowship: $75,000
- Patient Room Renovation: $150,000
- Pilot Research Study: $500,000