Gifts are received on our behalf by the UW Foundation, the official gift-receiving organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its affiliates. The Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization with the EIN#39-0743975. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Your support makes a difference.
We are grateful for your role in the Center for Patient Partnerships’ efforts to bridge connections between all of us who share the need for health. With your help, we are providing the tools, education, and powerful patient stories needed to break down system barriers and fight compassionately for health justice. Your support of our advocacy fund ensures we can continue to offer free high quality advocacy services to hundreds and hundreds of families each year. It makes it possible for us to listen deeply to patients’ experiences through action research and share patient-generated ideas for change with policymakers.
Help us innovate.
Give to the CPP Innovation Fund
For more than two decades, we have trained future health care and social services professionals how to fight for their patients. With your support, we prepare emerging leaders to take on complexity. Our approach grounds students in listening, and empathy, and reflection that strengthens one of the key elements found in successful 20th-century leaders: self-awareness.
To honor our visionary founder Meg Gaines, upon her retirement, we have created a special Innovation Fund to ensure that our work continues with the same spirit innovative Meg brought to it. For 20 years the Center has amplified patients’ voices so that change is grounded in the experiences of patients themselves. With your support, we can continue Meg’s legacy of bold innovation. Your gift helps build the financial security we need to advocate for real change. Your partnership ensures that we continue to drive authentic patient-centered reforms—reframing how health care is taught, practiced, regulated, and funded.
ways to give
Online
Make your monthly, annual, or one-time gift online through the University of Wisconsin Foundation.
By Check
Please make your check payable to Center for Patient Partnerships and send to:
UW Foundation
U.S. Bank Lockbox 78807
Milwaukee, WI 53278-0807
Get in touch
Co-Director Sarah Davis welcomes the opportunity to connect with you about giving opportunities. Please get in touch! Sarah.Davis@wisc.edu or 608-265-0906.
At the Center for Patient Partnerships, keeping our doors open is a high-stakes project. For many of our clients, our counsel gives much-needed hope in the face of severe illness. Your monthly donation generates reliable income we use to help patients of all backgrounds, free of charge. It’s the easiest way to give and ensure ongoing support for the Center, and you can opt-out at any time.
Your annual support is vital to sustaining the Center’s core mission. Your gift helps us create innovative curricula and share our passion for advocacy, resulting in a transformative experience for our students and clients. Gifts to annual funds provide flexible resources to support Center priorities, including attracting and retaining talented faculty and providing scholarships to help the Center’s educational programs remain affordable.
At the leadership level of giving, you make a commitment to the Center for Patient Partnerships—and we make a commitment to you. As a Leadership supporter, you will receive exclusive communication from our co-directors, advance notice of publications and Center news, invitations to special events, and recognition in our annual report and on our website. We’re happy to work with you individually to invest your gift in the area of our mission that most excites you.
When you make a leadership gift to the Center, you are also recognized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in its giving societies. Learn more about qualifying gifts through the University of Wisconsin Foundation.
Gifts that qualify for naming opportunities are a lasting way to impact our clients, students and faculty. A named gift can serve as a tribute to a loved one, or it can demonstrate your own investment in the future of health care. Naming opportunities are available for endowed scholarships, endowed chairs, and other unrestricted endowments. There is also an opportunity available to name the Center itself after you, your family, or loved one.
For more information, please begin the conversation by contacting Co-Director Sarah at Sarah.Davis@wisc.edu or 608-265-0906.
Honor gifts are an opportunity to celebrate a special occasion—a birthday, anniversary, wedding or a friend’s courage in the face of life-threatening illness. A memorial gift helps honor a loved one’s memory by supporting important, practical work. The perfect tribute to a life well-lived. When a memorial or honor gift is received, the Center will send a letter to the person or family indicated (if a mailing or email address is provided) notifying them of your thoughtful donation.
Planned giving integrates your charitable gift into your overall financial, tax, and estate planning to maximize benefits both to you and to the Center for Patient Partnerships. Through planned giving, you can multiply the effect of your gift.
Deferred gifts are those that are made in the present and received by the Center in the future. Some deferred gifts are straightforward, such as a bequest. Others are more complex, providing current tax benefits as well as income for the donor, a beneficiary, or both. You can help ensure the future success of the Center for Patient Partnerships while leaving your legacy through planning your gift today.