Make a Gift
Maintaining Stanford’s excellence depends more than ever on private philanthropy. Charitable gifts to the Stanford Cancer Center provide critical resources to develop new therapies, prevention strategies and methods of early detection that reduce the occurrence and impact of cancer. Your support enables us to advance promising new research and treatment programs, train future generations of physicians and scientists, expand vital support services and share our knowledge with the community.
How to Contribute
Gifts to the Cancer Center can be made in several ways:
- Online – Make a gift online by using Stanford’s secure web site for giving. To support the Cancer Center, direct your gift to the Stanford Medical Center and in the Special Instructions box under Gift Designation type in Stanford Cancer Center.
- By Mail or Fax – Print and complete
this donation form and return it with your gift to:
Stanford Cancer Center
Development Office
2700 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-234-0644 (fax)
- Call Us – Contact our development staff by calling 650-234-0651 to discuss a gift.
Ways to Give
Charitable contributions to the Cancer Center come in many shapes and sizes – through outright cash, appreciated securities and bequests, to gifts in honor or in memory of a loved one or close friend. When making your next gift to the Stanford Cancer Center, please keep the following giving ideas in mind. Our development staff is here to assist you with your philanthropic plans and decisions.
The Annual FundThe Stanford Cancer Center’s Annual Fund is a valuable source of unrestricted support that impacts every aspect of the Center, including research, patient care and services, physician and scientist training, and community outreach. With gifts to this Fund, we are able to respond more rapidly to new ideas in the battle against cancer and to support areas of greatest promise.
Program SupportYou may choose to designate your gift for a specific purpose, such as patient care, research, education or cancer prevention programs. You may also choose to support the work of a particular physician, researcher or clinical specialty area. Contact our development staff for the full range of available funding opportunities.
Tribute GiftsGifts may be made in memory or in honor of a loved one or friend, or to celebrate a birthday, anniversary or other special occasion. Stanford will inform the person you designate that a gift has been made in their honor or in memory of their loved one. Tribute gifts are a thoughtful way to show your support for Stanford’s cancer programs.
Matching GiftsMany companies match gifts made by their employees to non-profit organizations. If your employer has a matching gifts program your gift to the Cancer Center could be doubled. Contact your human resource department to see if they will match your donation. They will provide you with a matching gift form for you to fill out and return with your donation.
Endowment SupportEndowed gifts create a lasting legacy for the donor and provide a perpetual source of support for the Cancer Center. Income from the endowment allows us to attract and retain the best physicians and scientists, and provides needed resources to establish and sustain programs in research, patient care and treatment. Examples of endowment support include:
- Professorships —An endowed professorship is the highest honor the University can bestow on a faculty member. It is awarded to the physician or scientist whose work best represents the ideals of the University and distinguishes its holder as a leader in medicine.
- Faculty Scholar Fund —An endowed faculty scholar fund honors, encourages and supports outstanding young faculty members at the very beginning of their careers. Such awards last for three or four years – a period long enough to complete a segment of work but short enough to make the fund available to other qualified candidates.
Planned gifts often receive special tax benefits and include gifts through your estate, gifts of principal that pay you income for life, and gifts of retirement plan assets, real property or other complex assets. Planned gifts can be tailored to meet your current and future needs and can provide you with tax savings and other benefits. Examples of some common planned gifts include:
- Bequests —Giving by bequest costs nothing now, yet it may give you a great deal of satisfaction to know that your future gift will live on. A gift through your will or trust is entirely free from federal estate taxes. You may make a bequest and retain the ability to change it at any time.
- Life Income Gifts —Life income gifts are created when you transfer cash, securities, real estate or other assets to Stanford. The University then invests those assets, and you or another beneficiary receives a stream of income for life, after which the principal comes to Stanford. Donors of life income gifts help to secure the Cancer Center ’s future in addition to their own.
To learn more, please contact Carol Kersten, J.D., Director of Planned Giving for the Medical Center, at 650-725-5524 or . Further information is also included at the following website.
Publicly Traded Securities and Other Non-Cash AssetsGifts to the Cancer Center can also be made with non-cash assets, such as real estate and publicly traded securities. Publicly traded securities can be used to make any type of charitable gift: lifetime outright gifts, life income gifts or bequests. In making such gifts, you receive a charitable income or estate tax deduction and may defer or avoid altogether the recognition of long-term capital gain in those securities. Publicly traded securities held in a brokerage account may be transferred electronically to Stanford University. Please use our online giving application or contact the Cancer Center development staff to make a gift of publicly traded securities.
Special EventsIf you are thinking of hosting a special event to raise funds for the Cancer Center, please contact our development staff for information on community fundraising policies and procedures.
Contact the Development Staff
For more information on making a gift to the Stanford Cancer Center, please contact:
| Mail: | Stanford Cancer Center Development Office 2700 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: 650-234-0651 or 650-234-0600 (front desk) Fax: 650-234-0644 |
Development Staff:
- Erik Rausch
Senior Director of Development/Cancer Center
650-234-0614
- Dwane Anderson
Director of Development/Cancer Center
650-234-0665
- Will Davis
Director of Development/Cancer Center
650-234-0624
- Kimberly Booth
Associate Director of Development/Cancer Center
650-234-0673
- Elizabeth Burns
Associate Director of Development/Cancer Center
650-234-0683
elizabeth.burns@stanford.edu
- Janice Flowers-Sonne
Administrative Assistant
650-234-0651
jfsonne@stanford.edu - Linda Lingane
Administrative Associate
650-234-0671
llingane@stanford.edu
Past issues of Stanford Cancer Update newsletter are available online.
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