Its mandate is to support the educational, research and clinical needs of the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, and it also acts as resource for all health care practitioners and health libraries in the province. We are constantly challenged to meet the needs of health sciences staff and students with available budgets. All materials purchased with monetary gifts have a gift plate affixed acknowledging the donor.
All gifts are cumulative.
Gifts can be designated to honour or memorialize a friend or loved one. Gifts can be designated to celebrate a special occasion such as a graduation, birthday, bar mitzvah, anniversary or retirement. Planned gifts are usually donations of assets earned or acquired over a lifetime. The most common planned gift is a bequest arranged through a person's will. Other arrangements include gifts of tangible property, life insurance, gift annuities, appreciated common stock and charitable remainder trusts.