office of institutional advancement

Legacy Giving

Temple Family Tradition

Temple University School of Medicine is the family alma mater of more than 2,000 graduates. Some of our families are multi-generational. Others are composed of multiple members of the same generation. To see our list of legacy families, please click here.

Legacy family members are especially important to Temple. We benefit when families remain connected to the School, encouraging their loved ones to continue the tradition of studying medicine at Temple. We also benefit when our legacy graduates support the school financially and volunteer their time.

Medicine has evolved tremendously over the years, but the values underlying the Temple education--like family values--remain unchanged. Years or decades might separate individual members of legacy families, yet a sense of shared experience and tradition links them with one another and with Temple. We celebrate this common bond.

Many families have celebrated their legacies at Temple with special gifts.

Celebrate Your Temple Family

Legacy giving is a wonderful way to commemorate the ties between your family and Temple. Through family giving, you can pass on the values at the heart of your Temple experience to others.

With a family gift, you can significantly increase the impact of your contribution, linking your family's legacy with your alma mater. Future generations can continue their support, further strengthening both the family and the School.

Family giving elevates Temple to a higher plane and is an essential element of the School of Medicine's $70 million "Access to Excellence" campaign. A campaign of strategic investment for the future, Access to Excellence is designed to garner support for our spectacular new education and research building, to broaden our portfolio of scholarships and endowed chairs, and to advance our standing in medical research.

With dozens of opportunities, a number of programs or projects may pique your family's interest. The Office of Intuitional Advancement will work with you to define a designation that best meets your needs.

Giving Opportunities

Support Faculty

With their prestige and stability, endowed chairs are powerful recruitment and retention tools for renowned professors.

Endow a professorship or faculty chair. Chair commitments begin at $1.5 million. Many families fund these opportunities in their estate plans.
Fund a term professorship.
Make a gift to an established chair or faculty fund.

Support Facilities

Construction is underway on a new home for the School of Medicine, an 11-story, 48,000 square foot facility that will transform our campus. Name a space in the building--or the building itself. Opportunities range from $25,000 to $20 million.

The Lachman Auditorium. Join our $1 million campaign to name an auditorium in memory of Dr. Lachman.
The Alumni Bridge Challenge. Make a gift of $25,000 to $50,000 to the Alumni Bridge linking Kresge Hall to the new building and it will be matched, dollar for dollar, by Temple's Board of Visitors.
The Carson Schneck Gross Anatomy Lab. Join the campaign to honor this enormously popular professor.

Support Scholarships

Last year, more than 9,000 students competed for 180 spots in our freshman class. Scholarships attract top-notch applicants, ease our graduates' debt burden (currently averaging $150,000), and help ensure that medical education at Temple remains accessible to students of all backgrounds.

Establish an endowed scholarship covering full or partial tuition for one or more students. Named funds usually begin at $50,000.
Fund a term scholarship providing a partial tuition grant to one or more students.
Make a gift to an existing scholarship fund.

Support Research

Private philanthropy is an important resource for biomedical research. Consider establishing a research program with one of our centers or talk with us about establishing a new program.