What You Can Do

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 the Foundation through a bequest (a gift you designate in your will), living trust, gift of life insurance, or a variety of other options.

What better way to support the future of family medicine in Ohio than to name the Foundation 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 will always 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 the Foundation a beneficiary of your life insurance, pension plan, or IRA.

The Foundation 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 the Foundation 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 Deputy Executive Vice President Kaitlin McGuffie or call 800.742.7327 for more information.

The AAFP Foundation 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 website. The AAFP Foundation staff is available to help interested donors who wish to remember both the AAFP Foundation and the OAFP Foundation in their charitable bequests. For more information, contact the AAFP Foundation or request a free Wills Guide. When you make provisions for a planned gift to the AAFP Foundation, you become part of the AAFP Foundation League.

The Foundation is a registered charity with www.iGive.com; and, shopping online at www.iGive.com is another way to support the Foundation’s mission to cultivate student career choice 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 the Foundation – and your shopping donations are tax deductible!

“For online shoppers, this is a great way to make an extra contribution to the Foundation. It is fast, easy, and fun to watch your donations grow just by shopping online at your favorite stores,” said Foundation Executive Vice President Kate Mahler, CAE.

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 iGive are not remote, online “trunk stores,” but rather they include retailers such as 1.800 Contacts, BoxLunch, Cheryl’s, Dick’s Sporting, Goods Expedia, JCPenney,  Kohl’s, Land’ End, Macy’s, Orbitz, Sephora, Staples, QVC, Verizon Wireless, and many, many more.

Try it now! Join iGive and you will be setup to support the Foundation with your online shopping. It is that simple!

What started as a heartfelt tradition in 1991, thanks to Diane Todd and the OAFP Auxiliary, has blossomed into one of the Foundation’s most treasured annual fundraisers. In , 2000, a generous twist was added when Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP) Past Presidents Mark Belfer, DO; Ross Black, II, MD; and Mary Jo Welker, MD; began sponsoring the quilt raffle so that every dollar raised could directly support the Foundation’s career-affirming programs.

And the tradition keeps growing!
Each year, more OAFP Past Presidents have joined the effort, helping this fundraiser stitch together a stronger future for family medicine.

Check back in summer 2026 for details on the next quilt raffle.

Have questions? Reach out to Kaitlin McGuffie or call 800.742.7327.

Whether you’re heading to a meeting, repping family medicine at school pickup, or looking for a meaningful gift, there’s something for everyone in the OAFP Foundation’s (Foundation) Bonfire merchandise store!

From cozy tees and sweatshirts to drinkware and totes, every purchase helps support the Foundation’s career-affirming programs—including the Leroy A. Rodgers, MD, Preceptorship Program and AAFP FUTURE Conference scholarships, which inspire and support the next generation of family physicians.

Proceeds from all purchases go directly to the Foundation and help fund experiences that make a lasting impact on students exploring family medicine as their calling.

Thank you for wearing your support proudly and helping us grow the future of family medicine in Ohio!

Check out the merchandise and shop today!

According to a 2015 survey from the American Academy of Family Physicians, of fourth-year medical students who were AAFP members revealed that 93% of respondents who matched into family medicine residency programs said strong family medicine mentors influenced their specialty choice. Conversely, of those who didn’t match in family medicine, only 60% said they had a strong mentor in the specialty.

Mentors and preceptors are key to securing the next generation of family physicians. Medical students need positive family medicine preceptors early in their medical school career to engage with them in their journey and provide them with insight into the family medicine specialty they may not otherwise receive.

However, we understand that making the choice to become an engaged preceptor may seem daunting and come with a lot of questions like: What information should I share? What procedures should I share? How will I make time in the day to see my patients and train a medical student? How will this disrupt the practice and other team members? And the list can go on. With all of these questions in mind, the Foundation has created this dedicated section to provide our preceptors with helpful information to be a successful preceptor.

This list of resources will continue to grow so please return often for updated links and information!

If you’re ready to jump in and train the next generation of family physicians and participate in the Foundation’s Leroy A. Rodgers, MD, Preceptorship Program to share four weeks during the summer months with a first or second-year medical student, please complete the Volunteer Preceptor Form and return it to Kaitlin McGuffie.

• Guide and Grow: Empowering Future Family Physicians through Teaching (CME on the Go, April 2025)
• Faculty Development for Medical Educators (The Ohio State University College of Medicine)
• How to be an Efficient and Effective Preceptor (Family Practice Management, May-June 2010)
• Precepting: Help Yourself While Helping Students (Family Practice Management, February 2002)

• Clinical Teaching of Students During Telemedicine Visits
• Giving Feedback to Students
• Incentives for Precepting
• Preceptor Expansion Initiative
• Primary Care Preceptor Expansion Action Plan
• Strategies to Ensure that Students Add Value in Outpatient Offices
• Student Documentation in EHRs
• Teaching Physician Webinars
  
• The Joy of Teaching Medical Students
• The One-Minute Preceptor: Shaping the Teaching Conversation

• A Bonus, Not a Burden: How Medical Students Can Add Value to Your Practice (Family Practice Management, September-October 2021)
• Share the Art of Medicine by Embracing the Role of Mentor (Leader Voices, November 7, 2019)
• Initiative Creates Efficiencies and Incentives for Preceptors: An Interview with Preceptor Expansion Initiative Chair Annie Rutter, MD
• Mentoring, Providing Opportunities for Next Generation (AAFP News, July 30, 2018)

Success Stories

• Med Student’s Rotation Ignites Passion for Rural Care (Leader Voices, December 9, 2019)

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The OAFP Foundation is always looking for individuals to join its Board of Trustees. Trustees are elected annually through a nomination and selection process with the Foundation’s governance committee. Trustees serve an initial three-year term and can be re-elected to serve a second, three-year term. Check out the Leadership Team page to learn more about the Board and the trustee responsibilities.

If you are interested in serving on the Board of Trustees, please contact Deputy Executive Vice President Kaitlin McGuffie or call 800.742.7327.

Share your story – plain and simple. Students and residents need to hear more from family physicians about the breadth of work they do and the satisfaction a career in family medicine can bring. Whether you’re having conversations with peers and colleagues or visiting students and residents, share the things you love about what you do.

If you’d like to speak more formally with a family medicine interest group at one of the seven medical schools, please contact Deputy Executive Vice President Kaitlin McGuffie or call 800.742.7327. Ms. McGuffie can help coordinate this opportunity with you and the student group.