Compassion makes healthcare better - one connection at a time.
At the Schwartz Center, we know that compassion has the power to save lives. Compassionate healthcare isn't just an ideal—it's essential for patients, families, and their care teams to thrive.
Healthcare organizations face unprecedented challenges: staffing shortages, widespread provider burnout, mounting financial pressures, and deepening health disparities. Our programs increase compassion in healthcare and create more meaningful connections between patients and healthcare professionals.
Giving Opportunities
Where It Is Needed Most
Support the Schwartz Center with a gift by making a fast and secure one-time or monthly online gift
Legacy Giving
Make a gift that will impact compassionate care for years to come.
Dr. Beth Lown Innovation Fund
Support the expansion of the Schwartz Rounds® program via new adaptations and in new settings, and the development of new programs and tools.
Marjorie Stanzler Fund
Help provide access to the Schwartz Rounds program for financially constrained healthcare organizations in the U.S.
National Business Membership
Join our business members who elevate their brand while building meaningful connections with healthcare leaders and demonstrating genuine community commitment.
Honor Your Caregiver
Honor a compassionate caregiver with a donation to the Schwartz Center. We’ll add your caregiver’s name to our Compassionate Caregiver Honor Roll, and we will also send a Compassionate Caregiver certificate on your behalf.
Learn about more ways to give
While our program partners provide important revenue, philanthropy remains our primary source of funding, enabling us to advance our mission nationwide. During Fiscal Year 2024, 78% of all spending was directed to mission-specific programming.
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Donor Spotlight Stories
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Ellen & Michael Gordon
“Donating to the Schwartz Center is a philanthropic priority for us. As a psychotherapist (Ellen) and a surgeon (Michael), we know firsthand the importance of compassionate caregiving, as well as the emotional toll it takes on caregivers. The Schwartz Center addresses these priorities with the Schwartz Rounds, the Compassion in Action webinars, and other mission-driven programming. We are so proud of the Center's continued growth and success.” — Ellen Gordon
Michael and Ellen Feldberg Gordon have been supporters of the Schwartz Center since its inception in 1995. Michael, an orthopedic surgeon, and Ellen, a psychologist, generously underwrite the Schwartz Center's Compassion in Action webinar series each year as well as the Marjorie Stanzler Fund which provides access to Schwartz Center programs to healthcare organizations that could otherwise not afford them.
Steve Corman
This year, we mourn the loss of a visionary, philanthropist, and cherished friend of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare. Together with his late wife Betsy, Steve Corman's extraordinary commitment to advancing compassionate healthcare led to the creation of the Corman IMPACT Honors, a program that has recognized and elevated programs that promote innovative, compassionate care.
Steve was one of the first members of the Schwartz Center Legacy Society, Steve made a lasting contribution by naming the Schwartz Center in his will. We are grateful that Steve understood the importance of compassion – and joined the Schwartz Center's Legacy Society as a charter member prior to his passing. His sustaining gift to the Schwartz Center will help to ensure the well-being of future generations of healthcare workers and sustain generations of caregivers, including doctors, nurses, and all healthcare workers, to feel increased compassion and engagement toward patients.
Steve's warmth, wisdom, and unwavering belief in the power of compassion to transform healthcare will be deeply missed.
Paresh Purohit
Paresh Purohit and Ritu Trivedi-Purohit have supported the Schwartz Center since 2015. Paresh attended our Annual Kenneth B. Schwartz Center Compassionate Healthcare Dinner for the first time in 2013 where he was moved by the stories shared by our National Compassionate Caregivers of the Year award and guest speaker Dr. Atul Gawande. Paresh lives outside Chicago, where he is a vice president at Marsh McLennan Agency, which provides business insurance, employee health & benefits, retirement, and private client insurance solutions. He is also a member of the Schwartz Center Leadership Council.
Giving Societies
National Compassionate Care Circle
Members of our National Compassionate Care Circle are individual donors who give $10,000 or more to support the annual operations of the Schwartz Center.
Champions of Compassion
Champions of Compassion are individual donors who have been contributing to the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare for 15+ years.
Legacy Society
Members of the Legacy Society have made gifts compassionate healthcare will be sustained for future generations.
Donation FAQs
Making a gift online is fast and easy. Please visit our secure giving form.
Monthly gifts are billed automatically to your credit card on the 15th (or following business day) of each month. In addition to being convenient for donors, planned recurring gifts provide us greater security in our budgeting and program planning. You can cancel or modify your billing information by contacting us at development@theschwartzcenter.org. We request at least two weeks' notice to modify your billing information. Making a gift online is fast and easy. Please visit our secure giving form here:
Planned gifts, such as bequests, charitable trusts, or retirement plan assets, are an effective way to provide for a future gift to the Schwartz Center while preserving your current income. If you would like to make one of these gifts, contact us at development@theschwartzcenter.org.
Making a grant from your DAF is easy! You can contact your DAF administrator on the phone or via the DAF website and provide them with our federal 501(c)(3) number: 04-1564655. You can also use the DAF Direct form below. The Schwartz Center is under the same federal 501(c)(3) number as Massachusetts General Hospital. To ensure your gift reaches us, please specify that your gift is intended for the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare.
A gift of appreciated securities or stock is a great way to support the Schwartz Center. Gifts of stock and other securities typically entitle a donor to a federal income tax charitable deduction and capital gains tax savings for securities owned for at least a year.
To transfer securities electronically to the Schwartz Center via MGH, the DTC instructions are as follows:
Please include your name in the reference field of the transfer. In addition, in order to properly identify your contribution to the Schwartz Center, notification of your donation, including the securities and number of shares, must be sent to: development@theschwartzcenter.org.
In accordance with IRS guidelines, the date of gift will be considered the date that MGH assumes ownership of the shares. For crediting purposes, the value is determined as the average of the high and low listings on the date the stock is gifted.
If you are over 70 ½ years old and have an IRA, you can make a QCD up to $100,000 directly from your IRA to the Schwartz Center. A QCD can help you reach your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) without having to pay income taxes on the amount of your donation. Your gift must go directly from your traditional IRA or Roth IRA to the Schwartz Center. In order to complete a QCD, contact your IRA administrator for the necessary forms and procedures. Gifts must be made by December 31 to take advantage this tax year.
Important:
Please send personal checks to:
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
P.O. Box 417597
Boston MA 02241-7597
By donating in honor of a care provider, grateful patients express their gratitude while honoring caregivers for all acts of compassion whether large, small, heroic, or humble.
The caregiver of your choice will receive a letter with your name, an explanation of the Honor Your Caregiver recognition program and a Compassionate Caregiver certificate. We will also add your caregiver's name to our Compassionate Caregiver Honor Roll.
Many companies match charitable gifts made by their employees, retirees and directors. Please consult your company's human resources department to learn more about your employee matching gift program. We will acknowledge your total giving including your matching gift in our donor listings.
If you're making your gift online, please check the “My company will match my gift” box on the donation page. Please also fill out the necessary paperwork through your HR department in a timely fashion to ensure that we receive your intended match.