Gift Planning
Planned gifts are a wonderful way to help others while helping yourself. While planning for your own future needs, you help to build a future for others. By designating a planned gift to the Minnesota Medical Foundation, you're helping to advance world-class research and education in medicine and public health at the University of Minnesota.
There are many ways to make your planned gift. Explore this section to learn more about your options.
Featured stories
Minnesota "Transplants" Make Estate Gift to the University
One couple makes a planned gift to support health-related initiatives, women's health.
Legislation Lets You Use Your IRA to Help Others
If you are 70½ or older, you have a unique opportunity to make a tax-free gift to Minnesota Medical Foundation from your IRA before Dec. 31, 2009.
How to Be Tax-Smart at Year-End
Including charitable gifts in your year-end tax planning can produce significant tax savings for you?and a feeling of personal satisfaction?while providing much-needed support for Minnesota Medical Foundation.

Determined to make a difference
Cancer survivor Jeanne McGahee thanked her doctor with gifts to support his work in ovarian cancer. These gifts established the Jeanne McGahee Cancer Research Fund for Women’s Health to support Argenta’s ovarian cancer work, and McGahee hopes that the fund will lead to improved treatment and prevention measures for other women who have ovarian cancer.




