How You Can Help
Your support matters. You can help ensure that our legacy of caring continues.
Your gifts to Methodist Hospital Foundation directly touch more than 64,000 lives each year.
Your generosity benefits thousands more through research, community health awareness and training for health care professionals.
It could be offering help to someone who can't afford their lifesaving medication, free counseling for a person struggling with stress or scholarship support to a nursing student in need.
Together we can strengthen health care and build a stronger community. Thank you for your support!
Community Event
Women Connect: Health Living, Impactful Giving
Women Connect is our way of educating and empowering women to do something they don't always do: prioritize their health. Methodist Hospital Foundation is excited to build this community – and encourage impactful giving for Methodist programs – through this dynamic, new program.
We'd love to see you at our next comfy, casual and FREE event – Different Ages, Different Stages: Puberty through Menopause – on Saturday, November 4. Click the link for more information and to get connected.
Greatest Need
For All Women: A Campaign to Grow Methodist Women's Hospital
Help us strengthen health care for all women in our region – from adolescence through pregnancy, mid-life and beyond.
Make a Difference for Now and Forever
When you include Methodist Hospital Foundation in your estate plan, your generosity impacts all aspects of the Methodist mission: the way we care, educate and innovate.
Let's discuss how you can meet your family’s unique financial needs while supporting our patients and staff far into the future.
Other Opportunities to Make An Impact
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By donating a book, you help our youngest patients and their families fill a vital “prescription” for reading. Every child between the ages of six months and five years receives a new book at their well-child check.
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Visit our ShareOmaha page to view our wish list and a list of recommended books on Amazon.
- Organize a company, club or family book drive to benefit Reach Out and Read. To arrange a drop-off, contact Methodist Hospital Foundation at (402) 354-4825.
Did you know your support is currently funding a pack of robotic therapy pets for older hospitalized adults?
These furry friends, which respond to human touch and make lifelike sounds and movements, cost about $120 each.
Provide essential clothing items to Methodist patients in need. For a list of needed items, visit our ShareOmaha page and click on the Amazon Wish list icon.
Impact lives by helping uninsured patients monitor their diabetes at home. Visit our ShareOmaha and click on the Amazon Wish tab, which includes glucose test strips and monitors.
Donating gift baskets to current neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) families is a meaningful way to give back during the holidays or any other time of the year.
Purchase and package some items that our NICU families enjoy the most:
- Books for parents to read or read to their baby
- Bottled water
- Gift cards (Target, Walmart, iTunes, coffee shops or local restaurants)
- Keurig K-Cups
- Lip balm
- Lotion
To ensure the safety of our patients, we are unable to accept food items and knitted clothing, including hats and blankets. If you wish to donate your baby’s gently used clothing, toys or baby items, we encourage you to donate to our community partners at Lydia House or Project Hope.
Maybe you or your organization would like to organize a fundraising kickball tournament, team-building 5K fun run or after-hours wine tasting. Put your creativity to work to benefit Methodist Health System!
- If you would like to host a fundraising event, contact Methodist Hospital Foundation at (402) 354-4825.
- These events are planned and held independently in a manner consistent with our mission.
Volunteer and share your gifts of time, energy and expertise.
- Become a member of Methodist VIP today by calling (402) 354-4533 for the Methodist Hospital campus or (402) 815-1130 for the Methodist Women’s Hospital campus.
- We also have “as needed” opportunities to volunteer at special events such as the annual Methodist Golf Classic or the yearly gala held each spring with a different theme.
Your cash donations shape the next generation of care at Methodist and touch thousands of lives each year.
- Whether it’s in the area of cancer care, charitable care, community service or education, 100 percent of every gift benefits the programs or projects YOU choose.
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