Endowing a named faculty chair at Kennedy Krieger Institute is a deeply meaningful, impactful and enduring expression of philanthropic generosity and vision.

Our most prestigious honor for the Institute’s most distinguished researchers and clinicians, a named endowed faculty chair recognizes senior-level leaders who are transforming their fields. The discoveries and innovations created through these faculty members improve the lives of children and young adults with neurological, rehabilitative or developmental needs— throughout the country and around the world. 

When you endow a named faculty chair, you partner with us to support Kennedy Krieger’s world-class research and care in perpetuity. Endowed gifts are invested, with only a portion of the annual interest spent (never the principal), to provide a consistent source of yearly support for the work of honored faculty members.

Benefits to the Donor

  • You create a lasting legacy that honors your values and vision indefinitely.
  • You help to change the world through the significant impact of scientific pioneers on today’s and tomorrow’s most pressing medical challenges for children and young adults.
  • Your endowed gift supports creative talent and inspires innovation across multiple fields.
  • You may honor or memorialize a loved one through the naming of the endowed faculty chair.
  • You receive charitable tax benefits, several of which could pay you and your heirs income for life through planned giving options.
  • You inspire other individuals, corporations and foundations to support the Institute, increasing the scope of your philanthropy and creating a community that is helping to solve some of the most pressing medical challenges of our time.
  • You provide a predictable source of income for the faculty chair and the Institute to better plan for the future regardless of economic uncertainties.
  • You make a positive, often life-changing, impact on the future of children, young adults and their families.

Benefits to the Faculty Chair

  • They have significant, reliable annual funds available to push and publish new frontiers of research and discovery.
  • They inspire and mentor student trainees in their lab and clinic, with increased funds available for new and additional training opportunities.
  • They create collaborations with researchers and clinicians around the world.
  • They inspire colleagues here and across their field to propel their own research and clinical practice to greater heights.

Benefits to Kennedy Krieger

  • We can attract and retain the best minds in the field, who, in turn, attract other exceptional faculty, students, and staff.
  • We can enhance and expand our curriculum, partnerships, overall academic and clinical culture, and international world-class reputation.
  • We improve clinical treatments and procedures through the work of the named endowed faculty chair at the Institute and in hospitals, clinics and centers worldwide

Benefits to Our Patient Families and the Research Field

  • Your gift drives novel research within the named endowed faculty chair’s own field and across other disciplines.
  • Your generosity strengthens the work we do every day across the Institute, touching every patient.
  • Your endowment develops new therapies and treatment innovations that are shared across the world.
  • Your support changes the lives and futures of children, young adults and their families.
  • You strengthen communities, because new medical discoveries and achievements improve the lives of children and young adults with developmental disorders.