The WMED Fund

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The WMed Fund is a convenient one-step way for alumni, donors and friends to make financial contributions to support medical student and medical resident success at WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. The WMed Fund has been designed to allow donors to support the mission of the medical school and the educational needs of medical students and residents. 

 

 

Your gift to The WMed Fund will help support educational initiatives like the following:

  • The General Scholarship Fund
    The General Scholarship Fund assists medical students with financial support for tuition that helps reduce loan burden and provides access and opportunity for WMed medical students. 
  • Online Textbooks
    After tuition, one of the greatest needs medical students have are the fees for their online textbooks. These fees typically cost $500 or more per semester.
  • Simulated Patient Experiences
    Donor support helps to provide the latest in simulated patient treatment training and simulated clinical facilities to ensure WMed students and medical residents are well prepared for their actual clinical work.
  • Educational Pipeline Programs
    Educational pipeline programs create a pathway to engage students underrepresented in medicine and healthcare at the elementary, middle school, high school, undergraduate and graduate levels to careers in health care and medicine.
  • Research and Research Travel Funds
    One of the great opportunities medical students and medical residents have at WMed is the opportunity to conduct medical research under the supervision of WMed faculty. WMed Fund donors assists with research project costs and funds to travel to regional and/or national professional association meetings to present their research.
  • Student Tutoring Services
    The medical education process is one of the most demanding of any academic enterprise. Student tutoring services assist students in achieving success in their coursework.
  • Student Wellness Programs
    Medical studies and residency programs are highly demanding and have the potential to be stress inducing. The WMed Fund helps cover costs associated with wellness initiatives that assist medical students and residents in maintaining a healthy lifestyle during their medical studies and residency experiences.
  • Support for Equipment and Instrumentation
    Providing medical students and medical residents with state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation is vital to having them enter the medical field trained on the latest medical advances. Donations help WMed stay current in the purchase of new medical equipment and instrumentation for the education of our students and residents.
  • Career Development and Exploration
    The WMed Fund assists students with financial support for career development and exploration opportunities during their medical education.

We invite you to support student success by making a gift to The WMed Fund. Whether you make a gift of $10, $100, or $500 your gift to The WMed Fund will help advance the mission of the medical school and help provide students and medical residents with innovative educational opportunities that would otherwise not be possible. 

The WMed Fund recognizes donors giving at the following levels:

  • $500 to $999
  • $250 to $499
  • $125 to $249
  • $1 to $124

*Note: The WMed Fund recognizes donors making unrestricted gifts of $1 to $999 during the period of July 1 to June 30 each year. Donors who contribute more than $999 to the unrestricted fund are recognized as Dean’s Circle Leadership Giving Society members. 

Ways to Make Your Gift

Gifts to The WMed Fund may be made by any of the following methods: 

  • Gift of appreciated securities
  • A rollover IRA
  • WMed Payroll Deduction Program

Please send your gift to: Gift Processing 1903 West Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5403.

Donor Matching Gifts

WMed gratefully accepts matching gifts for all donations. If you work for a company or an organization with a matching gift program please let us know.

WMed is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.