MMF's gift planning team: Holly McDonough, Tom Cierzan, Stephanie Oskie, Roxana Hedberg, and Jeanne Bischoff.
Gift Planning Team
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.
Meet the team
Tom Cierzan
Director of Development
612-625-8676
t.cierzan@mmf.umn.edu
Tom Cierzan joined the Minnesota Medical Foundation in August 2008. He came to the foundation from Catholic Eldercare and Catholic Senior Services in Minneapolis and St. Paul, where he served as vice president for development for more than six years. Prior to that, Tom was director of gift planning for the American Refugee Committee. In addition, he has also held leadership positions at the Goodwill Industries/Easter Seals of Minnesota and Abbott Northwestern Hospital-Sister Kenny Institute.
Tom earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and his Master of Arts degree in Health and Human Services Administration from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Before pursuing a career in development, he worked as a clinical lab technician for six years at what was then called the University of Minnesota Hospital.
Tom, his wife, Kari Cierzan, and their children, Luke and Anna, live in West St. Paul, Minnesota.
Holly A. McDonough
Director of Development
612-625-8758
h.mcdonough@mmf.umn.edu
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
s.oskie@mmf.umn.edu
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
j.bischoff@mmf.umn.edu
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.
Roxana B. Hedberg
Development Assistant
612-624-5406
r.hedberg@mmf.umn.edu
Roxana B. Hedberg joined the Minnesota Medical Foundation in 2000, providing administrative and donor stewardship support to the planned giving team and to the School of Public Health. Roxana has worked at the University of Minnesota for 11 years and has an associate degree from the University in Translation and Interpreting.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Roxana worked for two Fortune 500 companies in Minnesota and in Peru.
