How to Fundraise for Academic Hospitals and Medical Centers
Fundraising for academic hospitals and medical centers (AMCs) is evolving. Explore proven best practices to engage donors and raise support for your mission.
Read MoreElizabeth Dollhopf-Brown is passionate about enabling philanthropy to change people’s lives. From her vantage point, whether through medical research, patient care, or healthcare education, the world is a better place because of the philanthropists who choose to make the world better, one gift at a time.
Having spent more than two decades in fundraising, Elizabeth has gathered extensive experience in major gifts, grateful patient programs, prospect development, and annual giving. She has seen firsthand how no matter what is thrown at the nonprofit industry—be that challenging economic times or a pandemic—the industry is resilient and strong in its mission of service and support to the world.
Elizabeth provides additional depth to BWF’s healthcare and academic medicine clients, with a particular focus on grateful patient programs.
“We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” Winston Churchill
Elizabeth has served as a past board member and president of Apra. When not focused on fundraising, she enjoys spending time with family, hiking, reading, and cross stitching.
Fundraising for academic hospitals and medical centers (AMCs) is evolving. Explore proven best practices to engage donors and raise support for your mission.
Read MoreAt the outbreak of COVID-19 in March of 2020, fundraising teams were confronted with empty offices and a sudden shift to Zoom meetings. Gift officers who had only ever met with donors face-to-face had to quickly transition their relationship building and solicitation to a video screen or phone. By 2024, it seemed hybrid working environments were here to stay. However, this new normal hadn’t been studied for its impact on fundraising. We decided to change that.
Read MoreIf you work in healthcare, you likely have been the recipient of a call from a donor looking for help. The donor might be asking for help scheduling an appointment (often seeking a slot sooner than what the donor could get on their own), securing a private room, assisting a friend or family member in a medical crisis, or smoothing out a challenging healthcare experience. These requests raise a host of ethical and logistical challenges. Forces in society and the healthcare industry are shaping contemporary views of facilitated access programs. From healthcare equity to labor shortages to burnout, difficult times put more pressure on philanthropy to deliver.
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