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TMA Foundation SOLUTIONS Newsletter Spring 2025

  • Spring 2025

    President's Message

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    Changing Lives with Better Health

    If you’re a donor to TMA Foundation and/or volunteer for the programs it funds, thank you for bringing life-changing programs to Texans. These include resources such as scholarships, vaccines and vaccine education, physician health and wellness tools, health education books for youth and more. If you’re not yet a donor or volunteer, please join us in amplifying the voices of physicians and our friends of medicine to change lives with better health. 

    In 2025, TMA Foundation's goal is to raise more than $800,000. Please make a gift that is meaningful to you and your vision of a healthier Texas!

    Yours in good health,

    Carla Ortique, MD
    President, TMA Foundation

  • Not Sold Out Yet! Join Us for the 32nd Gala!

    Adventure

    TMAF’s gala on May 9 at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Spa and Resort in conjunction with the TMA TexMed. The Gala is co-chaired by John Shepherd, MD, and Jenny Shepherd together with Zeke Silva, MD, and Erika Silva. The theme is ADVENTURE! where you’ll enjoy stunning mountain lodge resort decor, live music sure to get you on the dance floor, and the thrill of live and silent auctions featuring items and experiences celebrating the great outdoors. Please purchase your ticket or table today!

    Thanks to top sponsors H-E-B and CHRISTUS Health and other sponsors for helping to make this celebration of collaborative health improvement possible. Regular tickets are $350 each or special VIP tickets for $400 and may be purchased through April 25 (prices increase on April 16). Individuals may sponsor a table of eight for $2,750. Individuals and institutions may sponsor at table from $3,750 to $50,000. See you in San Antonio!

  • 2024 Annual Report Preview

    TMAF raised an estimated $1,081,184 in 2024, exceeding its fundraising goal by 17%. The Board approved $862,053 in grants to 38 programs, an increase of nearly 2 percent from the $848,340 granted for 45 programs in 2023. This means that for every $1 TMA provides in support of TMAF, the foundation and donors provide TMA more than a six-fold benefit in community health improvement and positive physician image.

    These programs are the following TMA programs funded in 2024:

    • Vaccines Defend What Matters
    • Ernest and Sarah Butler Awards for Excellence in Science Teaching
    • Hard Hats for Little Heads
    • Diversity in Medicine Scholarships
    • Walk with a Doc Texas
    • Texas BookShare
    • Louis J. Goodman Leadership in Medicine Lectureship (at TexMed)

    The foundation funded 42 scholarships (up by four) totaling $368.450. Thirty (up by five) of the 42 are $10,000 each for Texas medical students and to alliance chapter nursing scholarships. The remaining 12 are mostly matching scholarships that range from $1,400 to $5,000 and are awarded to county medical societies and alliance chapters that have their own medical student scholarship program.

    The full 2024 TMAF Annual Report will be emailed and posted on the TMAF website in June!

  • Begin Your Personalize Example

    Planned Giving

    Did you know TMAF has a free no-obligation tool to find the charitable gift that’s right for you? Calculate deductions, tax savings and other benefits at https://tmaf.myplannedgift.org/gift-illustrator.

  • TMAF Grants Improve the Health of Your Community and Physician Wellness

    For nearly 30 years TMA and TMA Alliance members have been the catalyst for improving health with the help of TMA Foundation Medical Community Grants. Applications for community grants open in May. Eligible applicants include TMA county medical societies and alliance and medical student chapters. Application deadlines are July 31 and Nov. 15. Learn more.

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