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 54,000 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!
Greatest Need
Help Us Care for and Empower a Growing Patient Population
Our caregivers see it every day—the power of the human spirit. It’s a commitment to recovery after a stroke, sports injury or total joint replacement. It’s the drive to adapt to a life-altering diagnosis: Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, seizures and more.
Invest in the best kind of stories—stories of resilience—by helping us serve a growing patient population at Methodist Hospital. Your gifts will support the needed expansion of one of our core service lines: orthopedics and neurology.
Community Impact
Join Us. For Her.
Healthier families, workplaces and communities start with healthier women.
Highlight your commitment to women’s health – and the health of your employees – by becoming a sponsor or community partner.
Your support helps us increase access to care and education by strengthening two important community programs: Methodist Mobile 3D Mammography and Women Connect.
Give Today
Be There for a New Generation of Nurses
Did you know Nebraska is facing a shortage of 5,435 registered nurses by 2025?
Make a difference in the life of a Nebraska Methodist College student by providing a valuable learning tool – a nursing skills training kit.
These kits contain the basic equipment students need to practice skills at home, allowing them to feel more confident and prepared.
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.
Named Scholarships at Nebraska Methodist College — The Josie Harper Campus: How Do They Work?
Have you thought about honoring someone special with a named scholarship at NMC? Our team would be happy to discuss the process with you
$60,000 Option
• Allows you to name the scholarship after yourself or someone you want to honor
• One-time gift or payments made over time
• 5% distributed annually once the scholarship is fully funded
Greatest Scholarship Needs
• Transfer Nursing Student Scholarships
• Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing Scholarships
• Military Scholarships
For more information about naming a scholarship, contact Julie Raether, Director of Alumni Engagement and College Advancement, at (402) 354-7256.
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.
- 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.
Gifting Instructions for Stock/Securities:
Methodist Hospital Foundation has one option available for your gifts of securities.
Please deliver all Depository Trust Company(DTC)-eligible issues using the following instructions:
1. DTC #5409
2. F/B/O Bridges Trust, #74-2106-01-6
3. For Further Credit: Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation Donations Acct. #690197033
When a transfer is being considered or completed, please call Dana Ryan at (402) 354-4899, so we may identify it as your gift upon arrival, direct it as you wish and provide you with a timely receipt