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GIVING TO NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL
The New Milford Hospital Foundation, the fund raising arm of New Milford Hospital, builds partnerships with individuals, families, foundations and businesses to help ensure the Hospital's financial future. Every dollar contributed furthers the Hospital's mission of improving the health of our local communities, preventing disease and enhancing the quality of life.
New Milford Hospital relies on the generosity of individual, foundation and corporate partners to maintain its tradition of clinical excellence and compassionate care. Both restricted and unrestricted gifts allow New Milford Hospital to continually upgrade medical technology, provide ongoing education to keep our employees and medical staff current with the most recent advances, support community health and wellness programs, and ensure affordable, high-quality health care services are available to all who need them.
Your gift is invaluable for another reason. Broad-based support from patients, physicians, staff, and friends is a key factor weighed by foundations and corporations in awarding grants. In this way, even modest gifts can leverage thousands of dollars for the Hospital.
What We Do
A separate 501(c)(3) charitable organization established in 1984, the New Milford Hospital Foundation is directed by a full-time professional staff and a board of trustees. As development professionals and volunteers, we pursue charitable gifts and grants for the Hospital, while helping the community understand the crucial role philanthropy plays in strengthening the outstanding health care provided by New Milford Hospital.
We are prepared to advise donors who wish to express their support and appreciation for the ways that New Milford Hospital has and will continue to enrich their lives. There are many ways to give. We welcome the opportunity to suggest how charitable contributions can have both immediate impact and lasting benefit. To arrange a confidential appointment, call Victoria Lowrey, Executive Director, New Milford Hospital Foundation and Chief Development Officer, New Milford Hospital, at 860-350-7345 or email at lowreyv@nmhct.org
Who We Are
Professional Staff
Victoria Lowrey
Executive Director, New Milford Hospital Foundation
Chief Development Officer, New Milford Hospital
lowreyv@nmhct.org
Eileen McCormack
Manager, Development Operations
mccormacke@nmhct.org
Teresa Dawson
Manager, Development Information Systems
dawsont@nmhct.org
Board of Trustees
Tom H. Rosenwald, Chairman - Warren
Holly Flor, Vice Chairman - Roxbury
Margaret L. Griner - New Preston
Carol S. Papov, M.D. - New Milford
Mary Schinke, Secretary/Treasurer - Roxbury
Opportunities for Giving
Giving to the Annual Fund
The NMH Foundation appeals directly to the community for contributions to the Annual Fund in early November. Because these contributions are donated without restriction, the Hospital's senior management is able to apply them where they are needed most within the year. Annual fund gifts provide essential funding to all areas of the Hospital that are not funded by other sources.
Tribute Gifts...Honoring Life
Tribute gifts to the New Milford Hospital Foundation are a meaningful way to honor or remember family members, friends, a caring nurse or dedicated physician, while also lending support for immediate and ongoing needs within the Hospital. Memorial gifts are often designated by the family of the deceased for use in the Regional Cancer Center or the Regional Heart Center, but may be directed to other programs or projects by request.
Planned Gifts
Often referred to as "deferred gifts," a bequest in one's will, a trust arrangement, life income gifts, or gifts of life insurance are among the ways donors may help ensure the excellence and vitality of New Milford Hospital for future generations. Planned gifts may be restricted for special purposes such as capital expansion and equipment purchases, and also may be negotiated to endow operations of a department or a medical service. Endowments ensure the future of the Hospital because, by law, the principal is preserved "in perpetuity" and only the income is used to support annual needs.
In October 2009, the Foundation established the Adaline Buck Strong Planned Giving Society to recognize and honor donors who have provided - or plan to provide - planned gifts to the Hospital. Membership is awarded anyone who reveals that New Milford Hospital is the beneficiary of a planned gift. Society members will receive benefits to include an annual event to honor them, invitations to special events and seminars, and recognition in publications unless anonymity is preferred. Please contact Victoria Lowrey for a copy of the Society brochure and to discuss your interest in membership.
Major Gifts
Individuals and families may invest in the Hospital's strategic plans to initiate new services and programs, modernize infrastructure, advance technological capability with equipment purchases, and renovate or construct new space. Opportunities are numerous to permanently recognize donors whose generosity permits any of these visionary steps forward. We are always eager to meet with potential donors to explore the intersection of their philanthropic interests with the Hospital's needs.
Ways to Give
The Foundation welcomes gifts of cash, contributions by credit card, and gifts of appreciated securities. Special arrangements may be made for those who wish to name the Foundation as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy, gift real estate or artwork, or are interested in providing a gift in-kind.
All gifts are promptly acknowledged with the required tax information, and notification of a tribute gift is promptly sent to the person or family designated.
Checks are made payable to the New Milford Hospital Foundation. Gift restrictions should be in writing and directed to the Executive Director. Instructions for making a stock gift can be secured by calling the Foundation.
Volunteering for the New Milford Hospital Foundation
If you would like to volunteer at the Foundation, please call (860) 355-2611, extension 4407.
Make a gift online.
For further information, please contact Victoria Lowrey at the Foundation office: (860) 350-7345.
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