Naming OpportunitiesScholarshipsMake a ConnectionContact Jeff Nearhoof by e-mail or phone at 312-503-3088 to discuss naming a fund at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. |
Few gifts offer greater satisfaction than a gift to scholarships—a gift that fosters the promising futures of deserving and exceptional students, and lives in perpetuity through their accomplishments. Named scholarships also beget named scholars—for as long as a student is the beneficiary of a named scholarship, he carries the honor in title as said scholar. Monies allocated for scholarships ensure that financial barriers will not deter top applicants from pursuing a Northwestern University medical degree. With an immediate-use gift in support of scholarships, you can see your philanthropy in action. These expendable gifts create new scholarship funds and last until all principal funds are distributed to students. With a commitment of $50,000 or more, donors are invited to name the scholarship. Endowed scholarships stipulate that your gift will be invested and the principal will remain intact. An endowed gift of $100,000 or more creates a named scholarship fund that will provide important financial assistance to our students. Each year a percentage of the interest earned on the endowment is awarded as scholarship support. Endowed funds are held in perpetuity by Northwestern University, forever supporting medical scholars. View all named scholarships at the medical school. 
ProfessorshipsProfessorships are vital tools in recruiting and retaining our distinguished faculty members. Created in perpetuity, professorships represent the highest honor Northwestern can bestow upon its physician-scientists. Full Professorships, created with endowed gifts of $2 million or more, signify excellence and prestige for you, the donor, professorship holder, and the honoree. By providing protected time, named professorships allow our most talented physician-scientists to conduct research that offers the greatest potential for new discoveries. Research Professorships are created with endowed gifts of $1 million or more. They support the research and teaching activities of tenure-track junior faculty whose work shows extraordinary promise, providing an important means of retaining and rewarding valued faculty members while supporting groundbreaking research. Education Professorships are vital tools in recruiting and retaining our distinguished faculty members. Created in perpetuity, endowed education professorships are focused on the importance of teaching, mentoring, and the advancement of medical knowledge. With an education professorship, you can strengthen our academic mission in meaningful and enduring ways. View all named professorships at the medical school. FellowshipsFellows are physicians who have graduated fom medical school, completed residency training, and are now pursuing additional training in a particular area of medical expertise. Named fellowships also beget named fellows—for as long as a fellow is the beneficiary of a named fellowship, she carries the honor in title as said fellow. Fellowship funds are vital to ensuring that future generations of specialists receive training from Northwestern faculty. Immediate-use gifts in support of fellowships can create named funds to help fund novel scientific studies, facilitate participation at national and international conferences, and subsidize salaries. Endowed fellowship funds enable a broad-based clinical experience and rigorous research training for our physicians. Endowed fellowship funds ensure a new core of Northwestern-trained physicians and researchers, infusing new knowledge into patient care and research. Research FundsImmediate-use research funds allow researchers, departments, and divisions to designate support for current projects. Your contributions can be directed to an individual faculty investigator or a collaborative team of scientists working together to advance treatment options for specific diseases or conditions. Income from permanently endowed research funds provide support to faculty members who are pursuing promising studies that may not have captured the support of extramural granting agencies. These research studies depend upon private philanthropy to explore new paths not yet accepted by traditional funding sources. | 
