Gift Planning Team
Left to right: Holly McDonough, Stephanie Oskie, Mark Parsons, Jeanne Bischoff
The Minnesota Medical Foundation gift planning team is available to visit with you about estate planning and to assist you in making an estate gift that will fulfill your legacy goals. The gift planning team can answer your questions about funding opportunities such as scholarships, research, professorships and chairs; choosing the best assets to make a gift; and sharing with you the tax implications of each.
Contact us:
Mark Parsons
Holly A. McDonough
Stephanie D. Oskie
Jeanne M. Bischoff
Contact us:
Mark Parsons
Holly A. McDonough
Stephanie D. Oskie
Jeanne M. Bischoff
Mark Parsons
Associate Vice President and Director of Gift Planning
612-625-2298
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Mark Parsons joined the Minnesota Medical Foundation team in September of 2007. Prior to the Foundation, he served for five years as President and Executive Director of the California-Nevada United Methodist Foundation in California, managing the staff, budget and all administrative functions. Prior to that, he was director of planned giving for Utah State University, where he managed planned giving for the university's eight colleges and graduate school. His experience also includes eight years as director of gift planning for Hamline University in St. Paul. In addition, he served for nine years as senior minister for Edgewater Emmanuel United Methodist Church in Minneapolis.
Besides his B.A. in American History and Ph.D. in educational policy and administration from the University of Minnesota, Mark holds a master of divinity degree from United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, and a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul.
Mark is a member of the National Committee on Planned Giving and the Minnesota Planned Giving Council, and he serves as the Minnesota Medical Foundation's representative to the American Council on Gift Annuities.
Holly A. McDonough
Director of Development
612-625-8758
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Holly McDonough joined the Minnesota Medical Foundation in April 2006. In addition to working with her own portfolio of gift planning donors and prospects, she serves as a resource to the foundation's development staff in qualifying, cultivating, and negotiating gifts with major prospects.
Holly came to the foundation from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota in Winona, where she served as director of gift planning. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and her Master of Arts degree in philanthropy and development from Saint Mary's, where she co-teaches a class called "Giving Methodologies." In addition to her gift planning experience at Saint Mary's, she brings to the foundation a variety of fund development experience she gained as director of planning and development at Semcac Community Action and as executive director of the Cornucopia Art Center, both located in southeastern Minnesota.
Stephanie D. Oskie
Associate Director of Gift Planning
612-624-6453
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Stephanie Oskie came to the Minnesota Medical Foundation in 1997, where her primary role is to provide information on giving opportunities to prospective donors and advisers with clients who wish to support health-related education, research, and service at the University of Minnesota. In addition to helping donors complete a charitable contribution through their estate or financial plan, she serves as liaison to the foundation's planned gift administrator, Kaspick & Company, which invests and administers the foundation's gift annuity portfolio and charitable remainder trusts.
Stephanie started her career in nonprofit fundraising when she joined the planned giving department at the University of Minnesota Foundation in 1982. She also has worked at the United Way of Minneapolis and Courage Center in Golden Valley and served as director of planned giving at Children's Home Society of Minnesota for seven years.
Stephanie earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Florida, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She currently serves as secretary of the Minnesota Planned Giving Council's Board of Directors.
Jeanne M. Bischoff
Executive Office and Administrative Specialist
612-625-2481
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Jeanne Bischoff has been a member of the Foundation's planned giving team since 1991, providing administrative and donor stewardship support. She works with administering, recording and tracking bequest gifts, from the time a donor makes a commitment until final receipt of the assets by the Foundation. She has worked at the University of Minnesota for 24 years and has a bachelor's degree from the University in Psychology.
Prior to coming to the Foundation, she worked in several support positions at the University, including the Department of Psychology from 1985 to 1990, and prior to that, in youth treatment, in youth recreation, and in community organizing.