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Twenty-two percent of Dartmouth Cancer Center patients are food-insecure. In response to this need, the Center launched a pilot pantry project in February 2022. So far, the pilot has provided more than 150 unique patients with almost 800 bags of food. The Dartmouth Cancer Center Food Pantry is now expanding, with a goal of feeding 2,000+ food insecure cancer patients each year.

more QCDs to fund one or more charitable gift annuities within the same year. A charitable gift annuity is a simple contract between you and a charity promising to pay you or your spouse a fixed amount of money each year for life in exchange for your charitable contribution. Unlike a standard charitable gift annuity, payments from a QCDfunded annuity are taxed entirely as ordinary income, but the taxation takes place over a number of years, as payments are received, rather than all at once.

Give from your IRA and receive a lifetime of payments!

As you continue to plan for today and your future, consider this new law in your financial and philanthropic planning. 

A Gift in Your Will

A gift in your will that supports the work of Dartmouth Health and/or Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth should be directed to:

One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756

Tax ID# 26-4812335 (for DH) and Tax ID# 02-0222111 (for Geisel).

Sample language:

“I hereby, give, devise, and bequeath to , One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon NH 03756, tax ID # the following sum [state the amount of the gift or asset(s)], or percent ( %) of my residuary estate, whichever is less, to this purpose:

The Nathan Smith Society—a Dartmouth student organization that supports students interested in healthcare careers—is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its clinical shadowing program . Each term, the program pairs around 100 students with practicing physicians at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

For more information about tax-wise giving, please contact Katherine D. Blackman, Director of Planned Giving. Email DH.Geisel.Planned.Giving@dartmouth.edu, or phone at (603) 646-5858. You can also visit DHGeiselPlannedGiving.org. All inquiries are confidential.

Cardiac care in Northern New England will get a boost with the opening of Dartmouth Health's new Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) Patient Pavilion in May 2023. DHMC will be increasing the number of beds for heart and vascular patients by 25 percent, including a new unit for nonsurgical patients.

Despite the many advances made in academic medicine in recent decades, successfully applying what is learned in research to patient care remains a major challenge. With the establishment of the new Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science (DCIS) at the Geisel School of Medicine, community partners across the Dartmouth enterprise will work to help close those gaps.