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Recognition Societies

Your support of the UVa Health System is very important to us. To recognize your generosity, the Health System has created a series of recognition societies for which your gift may qualify you. Each society offers special opportunities to members. To honor your gifts, we may also include your name in our various publications or on permanent recognition pieces throughout the Health System.

During the upcoming Health System Campaign, donors of $100,000 or more may be recognized on a campaign donor wall that will be installed in the UVa Medical Center lobby. Qualifying gifts to the School of Nursing will also be included on their donor quilt display in McLeod Hall.

 

Recognition Societies Within the UVa Health System

Compass Rose Society
The Compass Rose Society is the UVa Health System's most prestigious donor society, honoring the leadership and direction of our most generous benefactors. Compass Rose Society members are individuals who have given $250,000 or more cumulatively to the UVa Health System during their lifetime. Their gifts benefit the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, and the UVa Medical Center, including its centers and programs. Gifts qualifying donors for membership in the society include:

  • Cash, including matching gifts from donor's employer.
  • Securities or other appreciated assets.
  • Real estate whose value has been substantiated through appraisal.
  • Estate gifts such as: gifts in trust, charitable remainder trusts, pooled income trusts, charitable gift annuities, life insurance policies, bequests, and retirement plans.
  • Gifts made by family members from family foundations.

Partners in Health
Our Partners in Health program salutes the Health System's most loyal annual supporters. Gifts that qualify a donor as a Partner include the following:

  • Annual gifts totaling $1,000 or more for current operations, including corporate matching gifts. Gifts may be made to one or more centers or programs in the Health System.
  • Combined annual gifts totaling $1,000 or more given by a couple.
  • A $1,000 pledge of support for current operations payable by June 30th of the current fiscal year.

Friends
Friends express their gratitude and support for the care they or their families received from the health care professionals at the UVa Health System by:

  • Making gifts totaling up to $999, including corporate matching gifts.
  • A pledge of support for current operations payable by June 30th of the current fiscal year.
  • Making memorial gifts in memory of or in honor of a family member, friend, physician, or nurse.

University of Virginia Recognition Societies

The Lawn Society
Taking its name from the ensemble of faculty residences and student rooms Thomas Jefferson arranged adjacent to the Rotunda, the prestigious Lawn Society honors alumni and friends of the University who have made cumulative, lifetime gifts of $100,000 or more across Grounds. Gifts qualifying donors for membership in the Lawn Society may be in the form of:

  • Cash, including matching gifts from the donor's employer.
  • Securities or other appreciated assets.
  • Real estate whose value has been substantiated by appraisal.
  • Irrevocable gifts in trust, including funded charitable remainder trusts, pooled income trusts, or charitable gift annuities.
  • Paid-up life insurance policies with the University as beneficiary (based on cash surrender value).
  • Gifts made by family members from family foundations or closely held corporations.

The Cornerstone Society
Membership in the Cornerstone Society recognizes planned gifts such as:

  • Cash, securities, or appreciated property given through bequests.
  • Trusts that designate the University as beneficiary.
  • Whole-life insurance policies that name the University as beneficiary and whose premiums are paid by the donor.
  • Lifetime gifts such as contributions to the pooled income fund, establishment of a charitable remainder trust, or creation of a unitrust or gift annuity.

The Rotunda Society
The Rotunda Society recognizes the University's most loyal annual supporters. Gifts that qualify a donor for membership in the Rotunda Society include the following:

  • Annual gifts totaling $2,500 or more for current operations, including corporate matching gifts. Gifts may be made to one or several schools or programs.
  • Combined annual gifts totaling $2,500 or more given by a couple.
  • A pledge of support for current operations payable by June 30th of the current fiscal year.

Within the Rotunda Society, the University recognizes five levels of giving:

  • The Dome Level - $25,000 and up
  • The Colonnade Level - $10,000 - $24,999
  • The Serpentine Level - $5,000 - $9,999   
  • The Pavilion Level - $2,500 - $4,999
  • The Portico Level recognizes annual giving at the $1,000 to $2,499 level by those alumni who graduated from one of the last five classes.

School of Medicine Annual Fund Recognition Societies

Many School of Medicine alumni, faculty, and friends direct contributions to a wide variety of scholarships, professorships, lectureships, Health System library projects and research interests within the Medical Alumni Association and the School of Medicine. 

The Annual Fund Gifts are recognized in the following societies:

  • Dean’s Circle - $10,000 +
  • Co-Founders Society - $5,000 - $10,000
  • Harvey Jordan Society - $1,000
  • Paul Barringer Society - $500
  • Robley Dunglison Society - $250

For more information on donor recognition, please call (800) 297-0102 or (434) 924-8432. Should you choose to make an anonymous gift to the Health System, we will insure that you do not receive any publicity or public recognition.