Foundation Partners

Great universities play a unique role in shaping the future of society, not just in this state or country, but also around the world. Historically, the students, faculty, and staff of UMB have contributed their expertise and talent to the surrounding communities, both locally and globally.

Our urban setting creates many opportunities for model partnerships, analysis of the critical problems confronting cities, and the design and testing of new approaches to urban revitalization, patient care, and other human and health services. Community involvement in all of its multifaceted forms has become the hallmark of UMB's faculty and students.

Since our founding more than 200 years ago, UMB has maintained a proud tradition of making lives better through education, research, patient care, social justice, and community service.

Support from the foundation community is critical for UMB to continue providing the most advanced clinical care, conducting innovative research, shaping tomorrow's policies, and educating the next generation of dentists, lawyers, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, social workers, and scientists.

UMB's work with underserved populations in the Baltimore area and around the world to provide health care, legal aid, social work and outreach, and leadership development opportunities is dependent on the aid we receive from foundations.

Foundations collaborate with UMB in many ways, including:

  • Shaping health policy by providing research, data, and expertise
  • Helping faculty develop startup research projects, which are used to collect data for successful grant applications
  • Providing teaching fellowships and student scholarships
  • Endowing professorships
  • Funding the expansion of laboratories and community-based outreach services

To learn more about how your foundation can work with UMB to achieve your goals, please contact the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations.

Contact Information

Aloysius Essien
Associate Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
410-706-2418

Melissa Bresnahan
Assistant Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
410-706-5988

Lois Warner
Program Specialist, Corporate and Foundation Relations
410-706-3912