Giving
Your support has the power to change everything.
The Bloomberg School community is committed to improving the health of populations.
Your contribution secures excellence in public health education, research, and community engagement
Dean's Strategic Initiative Fund
Your gift will infuse fast and flexible funding for immediate impact. Donations to the DSIF have supported:
- Supplemental funding for COVID-related research.
- Grants for students to travel to their practicum courses.
- A how-to-advocate video series created by the Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy.
Faculty Innovation Fund
Your gift will provide a faculty member with resources to spark new discoveries and lead innovative research, such as:
- Examining the role of an early-life health incident in colorectal cancer development later in life.
- Assessing how Medicaid home- and community-based services provide care to individuals living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
- Creating a prospective evaluation of autism vis-à-vis social environment and the developing brain.
Public Health Forward Fund
Your gift will help sustain critical research when current funding is reduced or eliminated, by:
- Sustaining a lab’s core operations to retain researchers, prevent the loss of important data, and keep students on track to meet their degree milestones.
- Securing research that uses social epidemiology as a lens to improve human health.
- Preserving the work that went into establishing a project by supporting that project's completion, instead of stopping and restarting the project later.
Impact of Giving
Your gift can help drive the Bloomberg School's mission by supporting our research, practice, and educational initiatives that save lives by the millions. Donors like you help us train tomorrow's public health leaders, enable faculty to make new ideas a reality, and energize research centers working to solve the toughest causes of death, injury, and disease.
Supporting Public Health Leaders Who Make Good Things Happen
With decades of experience in philanthropy and community engagement, Kathy and Ed Ludwig have learned a few things about creating impact, particularly the value of prioritizing leadership. As Kathy puts it, “Good leaders make things happen.”
Eliasberg Family Foundation Funding Helps Track Avian Flu H5N1 Mutations
For nearly two decades, the Eliasberg Family Foundation's support for Andy Pekosz’s infectious disease lab has powered his team to stay one step ahead of the trickiest viruses—those that cause influenza, Zika, and COVID-19. Now, they are chasing avian flu, aiming to quickly pivot findings into public health interventions.
Endowing a Scholarship to Honor a Lifelong Love Affair With Statistics
Growing up in the 1960s on a small tobacco farm tucked along Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Gertrude Huster knew hard work—work that gave her the confidence to dream big.
Ways To Give
Thank you for considering a gift to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Our researchers and students share a single mission: the global defense of human life. Your contribution can be used in so many places, in so many ways. There are several ways to give. However you choose to make your gift, please know that we greatly appreciate your support and dedication to the advancement of human health.
To learn more about these and other mutually beneficial ways to give, please contact the Bloomberg School Development team or visit the Johns Hopkins University gift planning website.
Online
For maximum convenience, use our secure online form. For further assistance, call 410-955-5194 Monday - Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Eastern Time. For more information, visit our Giving FAQs and the Johns Hopkins University Ways to Give pages.
Donor Advised Fund
A donor-advised fund (DAF) is a convenient way to manage your charitable giving, offering significant tax advantages and the flexibility to support the causes that matter most to you. Establish one source of charitable giving and simplify your giving to BSPH and other charitable organizations.
For more information on how to make a donation from a donor advised fund, please reach out to [email protected]
Check
Make checks payable to Johns Hopkins University and mail to:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Office of External Affairs—Development
750 E. Pratt Street, 14th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202
USA
Mutual Fund Shares or Appreciated Assets
Enjoy double benefits: receive an immediate income tax deduction on the fair market value of the shares that you have held for at least one year, and avoid capital gains tax. The procedure for transferring mutual fund shares is established by the mutual fund company and can vary in processing time and method.
Learn more about Appreciated securities or Mutual fund shares.
Retirement Assets
Naming the Bloomberg School as a beneficiary of your retirement plan is one of the most efficient ways to support our future. If you’re 70 ½ or older, you can transfer assets from a traditional IRA directly to Johns Hopkins to make an immediate gift and/or a one-time distribution to establish a charitable gift annuity.
Learn more about retirement assets here.
Real Estate
Donating property to the Bloomberg School can provide important tax advantages while eliminating the responsibility of property management.
Leave a legacy for the future. Learn more about giving real estate.
Will or Trust
With thoughtful planning, you can leave a meaningful legacy to the Bloomberg School. Popular ways to make a legacy gift are through a will or trust. Your gift can support any area of the Bloomberg School, augment your current giving, and even establish an endowed fund.
Learn more about giving through a will or trust.
Charitable Gift Annuity or Charitable Remainder Trust
Receive income, an immediate income tax deduction, and favorable treatment of capital gains if you donate appreciated securities.
Supporters who establish a life income gift or share with us that the Bloomberg School is in their estate plans are welcomed into the Johns Hopkins Legacy Society.
Learn more about charitable gift annuity and charitable remainder trust.
Contact Us
- By email: [email protected]
- By phone: 410-955-5194 (Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET)
By U.S. Mail:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Office of External Affairs—Development
750 E. Pratt Street, 14th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202
USA
Donations by check can be made out to Johns Hopkins University