Imagine a World

Can you imagine a world where health is assumed and illness is the exception? Where kids can be spared from hereditary diseases before they’re born? Where no disease is a death sentence? Where doctors have the privilege of focusing on wellness, and medicine is all about enriching the quality of life?

At Harvard Medical School, we are working to make this world a reality. Medical breakthroughs in the next 50 years will dwarf those of the last 1,000. Our mission is to lead the way in this new era of possibility.

We cannot think of any more audacious or worthy goal than to transform the future of human health and well-being.

Join us. Your partnership and passion are critical to our progress.

Support our critical work on COVID-19 today

blue coronavirus cells. The COVID-19 Response and Research Fund enables us to convene clinicians and scientists to address the current global pandemic’s immediate challenges and create a rapid-response system to deal with future outbreaks. This collaborative approach focuses on six key areas: epidemiology, diagnostics, pathogenesis, clinical disease management, treatment, and vaccines.

To make a gift, please visit our secure online gift form and select the fund name from the dropdown menu. A gift of any size to this or any other School priority will uplift our community and advance HMS’s mission of education, research, and service during this challenging time.

Make an Outright Gift

Outright gifts are a donation of cash or other assets such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, retirement plan assets, and/or personal property.

  • Visit our secure online gift form »
  • Make a check payable to Harvard Medical School and mail to:
    Harvard Medical School
    Alumni Affairs and Development
    P.O. Box 419720
    Boston, MA 02241-9720
    Please include a note with your full name, address, and phone number
  • Call 617-384-8500

    New Charitable Gift Tax Deductions

    The Federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed in March includes two provisions that provide tax incentives for 2020:

    1. Donors who do not itemize deductions on their taxes can now deduct up to $300 in cash gifts. 
    2. Donors of cash gifts can now deduct up to 100 percent of their adjusted gross income (does not apply to gifts contributed to donor-advised funds).

    Donor-Advised Fund (DAF)

    Make an annual gift from your DAF to HMS. After creating the DAF, you can direct annual distributions to your favorite charities. You enjoy the simplicity and anonymity of recommending a distribution from your DAF to HMS to support medical education, biomedical research, or health care service.

    If you have an account with Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, or BNY Mellon, select your fund provider’s name and you will be taken to their website to complete your gift.

    If your provider is not listed, contact them directly with a request to make a gift to HMS on your behalf:
    Make a check payable to Harvard Medical School, including a note with your full name, address, and phone number and mail to:

    Harvard Medical School
    Alumni Affairs and Development
    P.O. Box 419720
    Boston, MA 02241-9720

    More Ways to Give

    • Tribute Gifts

      Make your gift in honor of someone, in celebration of a special occasion, or in memory of a loved one.

      Mail your check made a check payable to Harvard Medical School, and including a note with your full name, address, phone number, and who your gift is honoring, to:

      Harvard Medical School
      Alumni Affairs and Development
      P.O. Box 419720
      Boston, MA 02241-9720

    • Securities (Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds)
      • To make a gift of securities, please contact the Harvard Management Company at 866-845-6596 or [email protected]. Learn more about gifts of stock »
      • To ensure proper processing of your gift, please notify Harvard of the stock transfer by completing this online form.
      • All mutual fund transfers must be coordinated with Harvard Management Company. For HMC to determine the appropriate instructions, please call 866-845-6596 or email [email protected] with the following information: the name of the mutual fund, the number of shares, date of acquisition, and where the fund shares are currently held.
      • For more information, please call Kate Murphy, interim managing director of gift planning at 617-384-8507 or 800-922-1782 or email [email protected].

    • Real Estate or Personal Property
      • Donate your personal residence, vacation home, farm or agricultural land, ranch, commercial property or lot, undeveloped or unimproved land or consider works of art, antiques, gold, stamps, coins, jewelry, patents, copyrights, etc.
      • For more information, please call Kate Murphy, interim managing director of gift planning at 617-384-8507 or 800-922-1782 or email [email protected].

    • Retirement Plan Assets
      • Use assets from your IRA, Keogh, TIAA-CREF, tax-deferred annuity, or qualified pension or profit-sharing plan.
      • If you are 72 years old or older, you can transfer up to $100,000 from your IRA directly to Harvard Medical School. 
      • ​​​​​​Instruct your IRA administrator to transfer your selected dollar amount (up to $100,000 per year) directly to HMS using the form letter linked below:
        [PDF] Download the IRA Rollover Letter of Instruction provided by HMS here »
      • For more information, please call Kate Murphy, interim managing director of gift planning at 617-384-8507 or 800-922-1782 or email [email protected].
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