We have a successful track record of delivering products and services to the Academic Health Center and to the community at large, and are recognized as among the best health sciences libraries and information technology services in the nation. We hope you will consider helping us do our job even better through a gift to an endowment or gift fund, or by establishing a new endowment.

• Gifts under $1,000 are added to the gift fund you select.
• Gifts of $1,000 or more are added to the endowment of your choice.
• Gifts of $25,000 or more may establish a new named endowment if you so choose.

You may make a monetary gift in any of the following forms or combination of forms:

• Outright gifts such as cash, securities, and real estate
• Planned gifts, such as bequests, trusts, retirement agreements, and gift annuities.

For more information about the types of gifts you might consider, click here.

Gifts Under $1,000

You may designate a gift under $1,000 for one of the following funds:

• Academic Information Technology & Libraries Gift Fund
• Center for the History of the Health Professions Gift Fund
• Alliance to the Academy of Medicine Medical Center Libraries Gift Fund
• NetWellness Gift Fund

These funds give us opportunities to experiment with new concepts and prototype new services and products; for example, purchasing a new electronic book collection or hiring consultants to ensure the broadest possible perspective on a new project.

Gifts of $1,000 or More

The Cincinnati Academy of Medicine Endowment for Academic Information Technology & Libraries.
By giving to the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine Endowment for AIT&L you enable us to expand the services and products we develop for the education, research, clinical, and community service missions of the Academic Health Center as defined in our Progress Reports and Strategic Plan. AIT&L supports students, faculty, and staff with exceptional library services and computer applications in their pursuit of providing the highest-quality health care, educating the next generation of health care providers, and discovering new treatments and medications.

Center for the History of the Health Professions
Your contribution to the Center for the History of the Health Professions will help to create an operating fund for the Center. The Center is a nationally and internationally recognized resource for medical history. Scholars worldwide visit the Center each year to conduct research using its rich collection of 19th century medical texts and photographs, and archives of many of Cincinnati's most famous physicians and medical researchers such as Daniel Drake and Albert B. Sabin.

Health Sciences Library Endowment
The Health Sciences Library Endowment allows the AIT&L to purchase books, journals, and electronic media in medicine, pharmacy, and allied health sciences beyond what our state funding provides for. Our collections rank among the best in the nation among academic health sciences libraries. To maintain the high quality of these collections it is critical to supplement state funds with private support.

Levi Endowment for the Nursing Collection
AIT&L has one of the best nursing collections in the country. Nurses and nursing students throughout the region use these matrials as their primary information resource. The Levi Collection Endowment allows AIT&L to purchase the nursing-related books, journals, and electronic media that make this collection outstanding.

NetWellness Endowment
NetWellness is a consumer health information service that AIT&L began in 1994. Today it is a partnership among the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University, and The Ohio State University. Health professional faculty contribute their expertise through "Ask an Expert." This makes NetWellness a high-quality, unbiased, and scientifically-based service with few peers. Forbes magazine named NetWellness one of the six "best" health web sites. The NetWellness Endowment allows AIT&L to increase the level of UC's participation as a partner by facilitating more of UC's world-class biomedical expertise.

Other Existing Endowments
You may also contribute any amount to any of the following existing endowments that support the purchase of book, journals, and other library materials on designated topics.

Endowment by:	For the purchase of materials in:
Dr. Leonard and Miriam Bernstein	Medicine
Jean W. Rothenberg, PhD	Speech, hearing, and deafness
Robert Rothenberg, MD	Leisurely reading in medicine
Cecil Striker, MD	Medical history

Gifts of $25,000 or More

By giving $25,000 or more you have the choice of contributing to an existing endowment or establishing an endowment in your name or the name of your choice. If you establish a new endowment, you may also specify the purpose for the funds generated by your endowment (for example, books on medicine) or choose to have the funds unrestricted; that is, their use would be determined by the Assistant Senior Vice President for AIT&L.

Recognition

AIT&L Recognition Wall

For a gift of $1,000 or more your name or the wording of your choice will be added to an attractive recognition wall at the entrance to the Health Sciences library. The wall was made possible by a generous grant from the Alliance to the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati. The following giving levels are recognized on the wall:

Center for the History of the Health Professions

A gift of $1,000 or more to a Center for the History of the Health Professions fund is also acknowledged on a recognition wall at the entrance of the Center. The following levels are recognized:

Book Plates

Book plates may be placed in the books, journals, and other library materials purchased with the interest generated by a named endowment designated for library materials. The donor may contribute to the design of the book plate.

Naming Opportunities

A gift of $25,000 or more gives you the opportunity to name a new endowment fund. If you prefer to use your gift of $25,000 or more to increase an existing endowment fund, you may wish to take advantage of one of the following naming opportunities: