Join Us in Creating a Better Healthcare Future
Help Shape the Future of Healing
Every community deserves physicians who see beyond the illness and care for the whole person. Your generosity helps the Northwest Osteopathic Foundation (NWOF) support future doctors of osteopathic medicine—especially those preparing to serve where physician shortages are greatest and access to care is too often out of reach. Too many communities still face a serious shortage of primary care physicians, and too many patients struggle to find timely, trusted, whole-person care. NWOF believes doctors of osteopathic medicine are an essential part of the solution. Your generosity helps support tomorrow’s healthcare professionals as they learn to see beyond the illness, treat the whole person, and serve with compassion in communities where access to care is limited. This is more than scholarship support. It is an investment in healthier futures, stronger communities, and a more hopeful path forward.
Support the NWOF Mission
Give Where Your Support Can Do the Most Good
A gift to NWOF’s mission fund helps meet the moment. It provides flexible support for scholarships, strategic opportunities, and mission-driven work that opens doors for future osteopathic physicians and strengthens access to whole-person care. Your generosity helps invest in tomorrow’s healers—particularly future primary care physicians who feel called to serve in communities where the need is urgent, the shortages are real, and the impact of one dedicated doctor can be life changing.
Upcoming Giving Opportunities
There are many meaningful ways to make a difference through NWOF. Whether you give on a special day, rally others to join you, or create a lasting legacy through a separate scholarship page, your generosity helps empower future healers and bring compassionate care closer to the communities that need it most.
1874 Founders Club
June 22
Join the 1874 Founders Club, a community of supporters helping lift the burden of debt for today’s osteopathic medical students. Round up to $19 a month—just 63 cents a day—and be part of building the future of osteopathic medicine.
Future Healers Giving Day
June 22
This special day of giving is dedicated to the next generation of osteopathic physicians. Your gift helps provide scholarship support to students preparing to bring whole-person care, compassion, and healing to their future patients. Matches and challenges throughout the day will help every gift go even further.
Countdown to Future Healers Giving Day
Countdown to Future Healers Giving Month
Future Healers Giving Month
October
During Future Healers Giving Month, generosity becomes a shared movement. Supporters can create or join a team, inspire others to give, and help build momentum for future osteopathic physicians. With contests, prizes, and community participation, every voice and every gift help advance the mission.
National DAF Giving Day
October 8
If you give through a donor-advised fund, this is a meaningful opportunity to invest in the future of osteopathic medicine. Your grant to NWOF helps expand scholarship support, strengthen mission-centered initiatives, and empower future physicians who are preparing to care for the whole person. The 2026 national observance is October 8.
Countdown to National DAF Giving Day
Countdown to GivingTuesday
GivingTuesday
December 1
GivingTuesday is a global celebration of generosity and a powerful opportunity to close the year with purpose. Your gift helps support future osteopathic physicians and strengthens NWOF’s work to expand access to compassionate, whole-person care. The 2026 GivingTuesday date is December 1.
Invest in the Future of Whole-Person Care
Your generosity can help shape the future of osteopathic medicine—one student, one physician, one community at a time. When you give to NWOF, you help support future healers, strengthen access to care, and advance a model of medicine that sees and serves the whole person.
Other Ways to Give
Qualified Charitable Distribution
If you are 70 ½ years or older and have a traditional IRA, you are eligible to make a tax-free donation directly from your IRA to the Northwest Osteopathic Foundation (NWOF) called a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD). These gifts are tax-free and can be a smarter way to support NWOF this year.
For those aged 72 and older, Qualified Charitable Distributions can count towards your required minimum distribution, allowing you to use your IRA to support the NWOF in our mission.
Thanks to the Legacy IRA Act, the annual qualified charitable distribution (QCD) is now indexed for direct gifts to charity. In 2024, this amount is $105,000. Individuals age 70½ or older are permitted to make distributions from their IRA directly to charity and avoid reporting of the income.
Benefits
- It’s a tax-efficient way to make an impact. Because the distribution isn’t taxable income, it’s effectively a charitable deduction.
- You can direct your gift to a specific fund or purpose within the American Osteopathic Foundation
- The distribution can count towards your annual required minimum distribution (RMD) for those 72 and older.
- It’s a special opportunity for individuals aged 70½ and older to give up to $105,000 annually to support the mission of the NWOF.
Stocks, Bonds & Mutual Funds
When you gift stocks and other securities, you make an outsized impact without taking money directly out of your bank account. Plus, neither you nor the NWOF will be taxed on the gains for appreciated assets you donate.
Benefits
- You may receive immediate income tax savings.
- You may be able to avoid capital gains tax on appreciated stock.
- When you give appreciated stocks directly to charity, your gift can be up to 20% larger because you avoid the taxes you’d incur from selling and donating the cash.
- Donations of appreciated securities may be designated for a specific fund or purpose in the Foundation’s mission.
Donor Advised Funds
You can make a grant from your existing donor advised fund to make a difference and support the future of the Osteopathic community today.
A donor advised fund, or DAF, is like a charitable investment account for the sole purpose of supporting charitable organizations you care about, like the NWOF. When you contribute cash, securities, or other assets to a donor advised fund, you are generally eligible to take an immediate tax deduction. Then those funds can be invested for tax-free growth, and you can recommend grants to virtually any IRS-qualified public charity.
Use Your Fund to Make a Gift Now
Donors may recommend grants at any time to qualified U.S. charities. Typically, a grant check accompanying a letter will be sent to the recipient organization. The letter is personalized per the donor’s instructions and can also have a special purpose noted, such as “In honor of” or “In memory of …
Create a Legacy Gift
The final distribution of contributions remaining in your donor advised fund after your lifetime can be designated when you create or update your fund. By simply completing the beneficiary designation form assigned to your fund, you can name successor advisors to your fund or a specific charity(ies) to receive a portion of your fund balance.
Life Insurance
When the original purpose for a life insurance policy no longer applies, you can donate your policy to the NWOF to support the continuation of the Osteopathic profession.
Benefits
- When you transfer ownership of a life insurance policy, you can receive an immediate income tax deduction for the cash value of the policy.
- If you make your premium payments on the gifted policy directly to the NWOF, we will forward them to the insurance company, and you may be eligible for a charitable deduction for your payments.
Will or Trust
A charitable bequest through your will or revocable trust is an easy and flexible way to help us in our mission to support the Osteopathic community. Your will or trust gives you peace of mind knowing your loved ones are taken care of, your assets are distributed accurately, and your gift reflects your personal values. By including a bequest to the NWOF in your estate plan, you ensure you’re leaving a lasting impact that will sustain our work into the future.
Benefits
- You retain control of your assets throughout your lifetime.
- You retain flexibility with the ability to modify your bequest as your circumstances change.
- You can customize how to make your gift by specifying a specific dollar amount, or a particular asset (such as stock or real estate) or name the NWOF as a remainder/residual beneficiary of your estate by leaving a percentage of whatever remains of your estate after all specific bequests are paid.
To learn more, contact the Foundation at (971) 491-5566 or jforsythe@nwosteo.org.
