Support from individuals, Ohio Academy of Family Physicians regional chapters and corporate members help sustain Ohio Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (OAFP/F) programs proven to increase students’ interest in family medicine, encourage students to choose a family medicine career and develop future leaders for the specialty of family medicine.
OAFP/F provides scholarships and preceptorship stipends that link students and residents with family physicians providing important exposure and insight to family medicine and its impact on patients and the community.
Make a Donation
- Making a secure, online donation
- Mailing your donation to OAFP/F, 4075 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43214
- Contacting OAFP/F Manager of Foundation Programs and Operations Julie Mask or call 800.742.7327
Purchase a Tar Wars® Poster
Display a positive tobacco-free message in your office reception area or exam rooms! Help spread the tobacco-free message to kids in your community by purchasing posters for your local elementary school.
OAFP/F is selling full-color prints (18″ x 24″) of Ohio’s entry in the 2010 American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Tar Wars® National Poster Contest. Created by Miss Lakyn Ogle of Byesville, Ohio, the poster placed fifth in the national competition. Proceeds benefit the OAFP/F Tar Wars® program.
- Twenty-two limited edition posters are available for the purchase price of $20. Each poster is numbered and signed by Miss Ogle.
- Un-signed posters are $10 each.
Purchase a poster online, mail a check to OAFP/F, 4075 North High St., Columbus, OH 43214; contact Julie Mask; or call 800.742.7327.
Make a Planned Gift
Through your planned gift, you can support OAFP/F and its programs.
A planned gift provides one of the most substantial and lasting means of support you can give. Planned gifts require specific planning with your financial advisor, attorney or accountant and can provide you, the donor, with significant tax advantages.
You can make a planned gift to OAFP/F through a bequest (a gift you designate in your will), living trust, gift of life insurance or a variety of other options. To learn more about the impact of planned giving and how to give, visit the Leave a Legacy® Web site.
What better way to support the future of family medicine in Ohio than to name OAFP/F in your will and in your estate planning. None of us knows what the future will bring. What we do know is that people will always need the quality care provided by family physicians and family physicians always will need to have meaningful involvement with both their patients and communities, making lasting improvements in Ohio’s quality of life.
- Make sure you have an up-to-date will (or living trust) that reflects your charitable objectives
- Contact your financial advisor (a financial planner, lawyer or accountant) and ask for help in establishing a charitable gift
- You can leave cash, stocks, real estate, insurance policies and personal property to charitable organizations
- You can make OAFP/F a beneficiary of your life insurance, pension plan or IRA.
OAFP/F established the Family Medicine Legacy League to recognize those who make provisions through their estate. Donor recognition is given for any gift made by bequests, life insurance, charitable remainder trust or any other type of planned gift.
If you have remembered OAFP/F in your will, please let us know so that we may properly recognize your generosity by listing you as a member of the Family Medicine Legacy League. While public recognition of your gift often inspires generosity in others, we also understand that anonymity may be your preference. Please contact Manager Foundation Programs and Operations Julie Mask or call 800.742.7327 for more information.
American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (AAFP/F) also has financial and estate planning tools to help make the critical task of estate planning even easier for donors with the user-friendly planned giving section of its Web site. The AAFP/F staff is available to help interested donors who wish to remember both AAFP/F and OAFP/F in their charitable bequests. For more information, contact AAFP/F or request a free Wills Guide. When you make provisions for a planned gift to AAFP/F, you become part of the AAFP/F League.
Shop through iGive
OAFP/F is a registered charity with www.iGive.com; and, shopping online at www.iGive.com is a whole new way to support the OAFP/F mission to improve and increase access to quality health care for all Ohioans by generating student interest in the specialty of family medicine.
By signing up at www.iGive.com/OAFPF and shopping online at the 900+ participating retail establishments, a percentage of your purchase(s) will be donated to OAFP/ F – and your shopping donations are tax deductible!
“For online shoppers, this is a great way to make an extra contribution to OAFP/F. It is fast, easy and fun to watch your donations grow just by shopping online at your favorite stores,” said OAFP/F Executive Vice President Ann Spicer.
There is no cost to the individual to sign up for this service and no cost to the individual for the money to be donated. iGive provides this service because its mission is to enable the economic power of individuals to benefit their chosen communities. Information at iGive, including your name and address, is covered by its extremely strong privacy policy.
Merchants associated with i.Give are not remote, online “trunk stores,” but rather they include retailers such as Amazon, Macy’s, The Home Depot, Bed Bath and Beyond, Expedia, Orbitz, Barnes & Noble, Staples, QVC, JCPenney, and many, many more.
Try it now! Use the link to join iGive, and you will be setup to support OAFP/F with your online shopping. It is that simple!
