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The Annual Fund drive is underway for the Dallas Academy of Medicine, our 5.01 (C)(3) charitable foundation that supports DCMS community service projects. Their are numerous ways to give to the society, see ways to give to the Dallas Academy of Medicine.
The Dallas Academy of Medicine has been supporting healthcare-focused community service efforts in the Dallas area for many decades. Founded in the 1940s and reorganized in 1974, the foundation's goal of improving the quality and distribution of health services throughout Dallas County has been met with tremendous community enthusiasm and support.
The Dallas Academy of Medicine needs your support and involvement. Your investment in DAM is a tremendous way to support the medical community as we continue to develop and expand our community programs.
As we seek to become more visible with our health outreach efforts, we hope you will confirm our mission by sending your tax-deductible contribution today. Your contributions will make a difference. For additional information, contact Ashley Bradley, DCMS director of development, at ashley@dallas-cms.org or call 214-413-1446.
The Dallas Academy of Medicine suppports:
Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Charitable Clinics
Immunize Kids! Dallas Area Partnership
North Texas Adult Immunization Coalition
See also . . .
Your investment in the Dallas Academy of Medicine is a tremendous way to support the Dallas medical community.
Thanks a million...actually $8.7 million!
Click here to view a group of amazing volunteer physicians were able to change the lives of some very thankful patients.
Project Access Dallas
Five years ago DCMS and several community partners created Project Access Dallas, which assists Dallas County residents who struggle daily with the challenges of poverty and are unable to afford medical insurance, while providing physicians with resources they need to care for such patients. The program is a network of volunteer physicians, partnering hospitals, charity medical clinics, and ancillary partners who volunteer to see uninsured, low-income patients. The program provides each patient a primary care physician from the volunteer network, $750 in pharmacy benefits, and access to free specialty care, labs, ancillary procedures, care coordination, and inpatient hospital care. More than 700 physicians, 15 hospitals and eight community clinics, eight ancillary service support organizations, one national laboratory service organization, 16 area business organizations, and more than 40,000 nationwide pharmacies have joined to make this program successful. Through Project Access Dallas, working poor residents of our community have received more than $3.3 million of free care and $387,000 in medications. For more information, visit www.projectaccess.info.Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Charitable Clinics
Six years ago, the DCMS Community Service Committee created a networking group of charity medical clinics to provide DCMS members the opportunity to volunteer in the clinics and to enable DCMS to serve as a resource for the clinics. The group has become more than just a networking group—it has enabled DCMS to better understand the challenges of caring for the uninsured and to work toward a solution to a nationwide problem. With the help of DCMS, group members have pooled their strength and resources, and have become one voice for the low-income uninsured population. The group uses its convening power to represent clinic patients and volunteer physicians on legislative issues. DCMS is proud to have been part of this group from its inception. Your tax-deductible contribution will help us strengthen this vital link to the community. For more information on participating clinics, see Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Charitable Clinics.IMMUNIZE KIDS! Dallas Area Partnership
To help improve the Dallas childhood immunization rate, DCMS and numerous other healthcare and community service organizations work through Immunize Kids! Dallas Area Partnership. Since its inception more than a decade ago, childhood immunization rates in Dallas County have risen from 34% to 74%, but this still means that one out of four children is not protected. IK educates parents, the community, and medical professionals about the importance of immunizations through outreach events, brochures, and seminars for professionals.
Back to List North Texas Adult Immunization Coalition
DCMS has been part of this coalition since its formation in 1999. Its focus is on immunizing adults against influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia. Thousands of adults come out for its annual North Texas Shoot-out to be immunized against flu and pneumonia. The Shoot-out is publicized to residents in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, and Denton counties, and people can be vaccinated under the banners of their home county to see which county vaccinates the most residents.Conference of Professions
For more than 20 years, Dallas County physicians, attorneys, and ministers have conducted the annual Conference of Professions, which brings together the three professions at Southern Methodist University to discuss an issue of community importance. The event is hosted by the Dallas Academy of Medicine, the Perkins School of Theology, SMU Law School, the Dallas Bar Association, and UT Southwestern Medical School. Through the support of DAM, this event helps strengthen relationships among the professions that deal with issues including domestic violence, poverty, and end-of-life care.Southwest Transplant Foundation
The Southwest Transplant Foundation is committed to helping Metroplex organ transplant patients. The Dallas Academy of Medicine has supported the foundation from its beginning in 1993, when DCMS Past President Phil H. Berry Jr, MD, and George Crutcher, both liver transplant recipients, started the foundation to defray expenses for local transplant recipients. STF provides funds for necessities such as medicine, rent, phone bills, and transportation.Domestic Violence Awareness
Since beginning its Domestic Violence Awareness program in 1992, DCMS has filled requests for hundreds of thousands of resource cards to social service agencies, healthcare offices, law enforcement agencies, hospitals, women’s shelters, and nursing homes. The cards list the signs and symptoms of abuse, plus legal protection available and phone numbers of shelters and pertinent law enforcement agencies.
Back to List Hard Hats for Little Heads
Hard Hats for Little Heads educates children and their families about how wearing a helmet can help prevent a life-altering or fatal brain injury if an accident occurs while bicycling, roller skating, skateboarding, or riding a scooter. Through community events, DAM provides free helmets to children, along with information about bicycle safety to instill in young Texans the importance of taking care of the brain and the consequences of not doing so.Texas Medical Association Minority Scholarship
Each year, DCMS joins several other large Texas metropolitan medical societies to fund a scholarship for a deserving minority medical student. Your donation will help the Dallas Academy of Medicine continue its support in encouraging minority students to pursue a medical career.Annual Medical Student Dinner
For more than 30 years, each August DCMS has welcomed incoming freshmen medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School into the family of medicine by hosting a dinner on their behalf. Your donation to the dinner enables these eager students to spend a fun and encouraging evening with DCMS physicians who share their experiences of surviving medical school and choosing a specialty.Click here for a printable PDF version of the below forms or highlight the section below and print.
Ways to Give to the Dallas Academy of Medicine
I want to continue the Dallas Academy of Medicine's commitment to the community.
I'm enclosing my gift/pledge of $ __________.
DONATE ONLINE
Click on http://www.active.com/donate/DCMS.CASH GIFTS
The good old-fashioned way to contribute to the Dallas Academy of Medicine is to make a gift by cash or check, complete the gift/pledge form (printable PDF version) and return via fax or mail.CREDIT CARDS
Members can make their gifts with a credit card. The flexibility and convenience of this payment option lends itself to a single gift or a series of periodic gifts.TRIBUTE DONATIONS
Tribute donations are a wonderful way to acknowledge a special person in your life. Make a donation in memory or honor of someone special or to commemorate a holiday, birthday, wedding, or other occasion. An acknowledgement letter of your donation will be sent to the person(s) you designate, and a copy of the letter will be sent to you for tax purposes.PLEDGE GIFTS
Scheduled monthly payments may be more convenient. By making pledge payments, you may find you can increase the amount of your gift to the Dallas Academy of Medicine.TOM THUMB GOOD NEIGHBOR PROGRAM
Tom Thumb will contribute 1% of all your purchases every time you shop there . . . see details.GO SHOPPING AND HAVE SOMEONE ELSE DONATE IN YOUR NAME
That’s right, go head and buy something for yourself –– a new CD, the latest bestseller, essentials like toothpaste or vitamins, even a computer. But first join www.igive.com/DCMS. Every time you shop at one of the over 600 name-brand stores in the Mall at iGive.com, Dallas Academy of Medicine receives a donation of up to 26% of each purchase you make, at no cost to you.Remember, donating to the Dallas Academy of Medicine won’t cost you a thing. But we’ll miss out on a lot of extra dough, if you don’t join. So visit www.igive.com/DCMS now. Membership is free and your privacy is guaranteed.
Please remember:
Make checks payable to Dallas Academy of Medicine. Gifts are deductible for federal income tax purposes to the extent allowed by law.
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Mail to: Dallas Academy of Medicine, PO Box 4680, Dallas, TX 75208
In recognition of your gift, you will be identified as a donor in the 2007 DAM Annual Fund Drive in an upcoming issue of the Dallas Medical Journal.LEVELS OF GIVING
PRESIDENT'S CLUB COUNCIL OF PHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE SPONSOR CONTRIBUTOR For additional information, contact Ashley Bradley, DCMS director of development, at ashley@dallas-cms.org or call 214-413-1446.
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