Affiliates and Partners
Affiliates
The Minnesota Medical Foundation raises funds for all departments, divisions, institutes, centers, and programs of the University of Minnesota Medical School and the School of Public Health.
MMF also works with two affiliate organizations:
These affiliates have their own volunteer boards of directors which set the direction for each respective organization. However, affiliate organizations operate legally under MMF's umbrella and 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. MMF coordinates fundraising between affiliate organizations and reduces administrative costs and duplication of effort by centralizing essential services. We also provide services such as accounting, human resources, computer and database support, and overall fundraising assistance.
Partners
MMF is part of a partnership between the University of Minnesota and Fairview Health Services that facilitates access to new academic knowledge and improves the quality of health care. The partnership, formed in 1997, includes:
- the six schools and colleges within the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, which educate and train the next generation of researchers, physicians, and other health care professionals;
- University of Minnesota Physicians, a 650-member group practice that includes members of the Medical School’s faculty who apply clinical breakthroughs to exceptional specialty care for patients at the University hospitals and clinics and throughout the community; and
- Fairview Health Services, which owns and operates the University hospitals and provides a continuum of care—from its community-based hospitals and clinics to the breakthrough treatments available at the University of Minnesota Medical Center and University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital.
This coalescence of basic and applied science is what sets the University-Fairview partnership apart: an academic institution devoted to discovery joining forces with a broad base of community hospitals whose patients need the best the brightest research minds can offer. Through this clinical network, the benefits of this academic-medicine partnership extend throughout the region—in many cases, with worldwide impact. Indeed, since the partnership began, the University of Minnesota Medical Center has achieved several world firsts in living-donor transplantation and stem-cell therapeutics, and members of the partnership have discovered and applied breakthrough treatments in a wide variety of specialties.
