Friends of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UC

Forge an in-depth relationship with your health and the wellness of your community. Join the Osher Center in its effort to be a transformational leader in redesigning health care from a disease-care model to a whole-person wellness care system. Through increased access to integrative health for all, we can improve the health-status of our communities.  

View the Impact of the Friends of the Center Program (PDF)

Make a Gift Today

What your donation can support:

The goal of the Friends of the Center giving program is to create advocates, increase participation in the Center's activities and advance opportunities for wellness initiatives in your communities. Through a suggested annual gift of $1,000 your Friends of the Center funding is used to support developing programs like our new culinary medicine initiatives and provide access to clinical services for under resourced patients. 

Please see below examples of what services could be supported by various levels of giving. As always, you can align any gift with your specific interests and passions.

CONNECTED | $500+

Gifts at this level may support:

• Community wellness educational programs including virtual Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness series accessible to all
• 8-week mindfulness group session for one under-resourced patient

FRIENDS OF THE OSHER CENTER | $1,000+

Gifts at this level may support:

• Student scholarship to attend a wellness event or national integrative medicine meeting
• Community wellness program support including, for example, supplies for in-person Parks for Wellness Event

WELLNESS | $2,500+

Gifts at this level may support:

• Medical student scholars program summer research stipend
  
• 15 acupuncture or massage therapy sessions for under-resourced patients

HEALING | $5,000+

Gifts at this level may support:

• Culinary medicine group teaching kitchen experiential for up to 20 attendees
• Faculty training for 2 members to attend 3-day mind-body skills training retreat

MINDFUL | $10,000+

Gifts at this level may support:

• Workplace Mindfulness and Resilience full-day immersive retreat
• One year of weekly movement-based therapy (e.g., yoga therapy, Tai Chi) classes at the UC Gardner Neurosciences Institute or UC Health Cancer Wellness Clinic

SERENITY | $25,000+

Gifts at this level may support:

• Pilot research study focused on integrative health and/or lifestyle medicine
• Year-long Helms acupuncture training or 2-year Weil fellowship for faculty to expand Osher team

ACTIVATE | $50,000

Gifts at this level may support:

• Community teaching kitchen demonstration or wellness event sponsorship
• Group medical visit and group classes coordinator to expand evidence-based integrative health group wellness services for patients

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Corporate opportunities include:

• $5,000 | National Speaker Sponsorship
• $15,000-$20,000 | Speaker Series Sponsorship
• $25,000-$50,000 | Symposium Sponsorship

Thank you for your consideration and support of the UC Osher Center for Integrative Health. If you would like to engage with the Center in other ways, including volunteering or learning more about our mission-driven programs, please email osher.integrative@uc.edu.

For more information about Osher Center funding priorities, corporate sponsorship opportunities, or how to make your gift today, please contact Dolores Dodson at (317) 709-6647 or Dolores.Dodson@uc.edu who can answer your questions or facilitate your contribution. Thank you for your consideration!