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Help advance SCCM's mission to provide the highest-quality care for all critically ill and injured patients.

Support the Society of Critical Care Medicine

Your donation supports SCCM's efforts to advance research, support education, and provide emergency response to empower clinicians and enhance patient care worldwide.

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A generous gift today will help SCCM to:

Support extraordinary research
Deliver state-of-the art educational programs
Provide ICU equipment and medications to the global critical care community when crisis hits

Thank you for your commitment to critical care and to SCCM! As a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, your donation is tax-deductible.

Sustaining Gift

For ongoing support, please consider making your donation to SCCM a sustaining gift. All sustaining gifts will allow the Society’s leadership to direct funding to areas in which need is most acute.

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Program Areas

The Society is grateful for all donations. You may direct your donation to one of the following essential programs, each of which focuses on improving care in intensive care units (ICUs) around the world.

SCCM Ukraine Response

Thanks to unprecedented donations from SCCM members and partners, SCCM was able to rapidly deploy aid to Ukraine. Through donations to its Disaster Relief Fund and with the support of its partners, SCCM provided free education to regional clinicians, translated training materials into Ukrainian and Polish, and helped deliver medical supplies and and humanitarian aid. SCCM also helped keep Ukrainian hospitals and ICUs operational by awarding over $800,000 in grants.

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Training and Education

Help provide training and education to individuals and organizations throughout the world, with a focus on resource-limited areas and areas impacted by emergencies or disasters. Training and education are most often provided through the highly regarded SCCM Fundamentals courses but can include education targeted to a region or situation. Your donation supports faculty and students, subsidizing the cost of travel and course supplies.

A gift of just $50 provides a student with all the training materials needed to improve their critical care practice.

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Medical Supplies and Humanitarian Relief

When a disaster strikes, donations make it possible for SCCM to respond quickly to help patients and the medical community. SCCM has responded to more than 45 man-made or natural disasters worldwide since 1990. Your gift supports the delivery of essential ICU medical supplies and equipment, volunteers, and other humanitarian aid efforts, including direct delivery of hygiene products, diapers, formula, clothing, blankets, and more.

$50 provides one month of personal care items for a crisis-affected family of four.

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Research and the Future of Critical Care

Fund SCCM’s research programs, which support the next generation of critical care and bolster important work that results in improved patient outcomes. Researchers are at the forefront of advancing knowledge that can be applied to treat disease and improve quality of care.

Your donation supports research grants for young investigators, helps expand advanced research grants, and provides endowment of the SCCM-Weil Research Trust.

Fund one hour of critical care research with a donation of $50.

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Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Guideline development and implementation are vital to improving patient safety. Your gift supports rapid guideline development and helps ensure the implementation of these life-saving measures through quality improvement programs, such as the ICU Liberation Campaign.

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Planned Giving

Your planned gift will support the entire critical care community for generations to come.
Take advantage of the many tax benefits of making a gift.

A charitable bequest is one of the easiest and most flexible ways for you to leave a gift to SCCM that will make an impact for generations to come. With the help of an advisor, you can include language in your will or trust specifying a gift to family, friends, or SCCM as part of your estate plan.

Types of bequests:

Specific: Gift a particular dollar amount.
Percentage: Gift a percentage of your estate.
Residual: Provide a gift from the balance or residue of your estate.
Contingent: Make a beneficiary designation of specific assets.
Restricted: Provide a gift designated for a specific purpose.

Benefits of a bequest:

Leave a lasting legacy in support of the Society.
Continue to use your assets for as long as you need them.
Possibly receive estate tax savings.
Provide tax relief for your loved ones.

Sample Bequest Language

Percentage Bequest

I hereby give, devise, and bequeath ____ percent (___%) of my total estate, determined as of the date of my death, to the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), a nonprofit organization located at 500 Midway Drive, Mt. Prospect, IL 60056, Federal Tax ID #23-7104387, for the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s general use and purpose.

Residual Bequest

I hereby give, devise, and bequeath to the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), a nonprofit organization located at 500 Midway Drive, Mt. Prospect, IL 60056, Federal Tax ID #23-7104387, ALL OR A PERCENTAGE of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate to be used for the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s general use and purpose.

Contingent Bequest

If [primary beneficiary] does not survive me, then I hereby give, devise, and bequeath to the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), a nonprofit organization located at 500 Midway Drive, Mt. Prospect, IL 60056, Federal Tax ID #23-7104387, [DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY] to be used for the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s general use and purpose.

Restricted Bequests

If you are considering a bequest and would like to ensure that your inheritance will be used for a specific purpose, please let us know. We will be happy to work with you and your attorney to help you identify ways to give and meet your charitable objectives. We will also work with you and your attorney to craft language to accomplish your goals.

If you are making a restricted bequest, we recommend that your attorney include the following provision to give SCCM flexibility should it no longer be possible for SCCM to use your gift as you originally intended:

If in the judgment of the leadership of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) it shall become impossible for SCCM to use this bequest to accomplish the specific purposes of this bequest, SCCM may use the income and principal of this gift for such purpose(s) as SCCM determines is most closely related to the restricted purpose of my bequest.

Donate Using a Qualified Charitable Distribution

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Giving to SCCM can be a benefit in many ways. Not only does it allow SCCM to help to improve the lives of the critically ill and injured around the world, it can also make a positive impact on your personal income taxes. You can withdraw money from your individual retirement account (IRA) and donate it to SCCM using a qualified charitable distribution (QCD).

What Is a Qualified Charitable Distribution?

A QCD is a withdrawal of funds from an IRA made with the intention of donating it directly to a qualified charity. A qualified charity must be a 501(c)(3) organization eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.

You may qualify for a QCD if you have a traditional IRA, an inactive SIMPLE IRA (meaning you and your employer are no longer contributing to the account during the same tax year in which you are making the charitable contribution), an inactive SEP-IRA, or an inherited IRA. Certain rules apply. Roth IRAs may be eligible for a QCD but withdrawals will be subject to tax.

What Counts as a QCD?

An IRA distribution must meet all the following requirements to be a QCD:

1. It cannot occur before you, as the IRA owner or beneficiary, have reached age 70½.
2. It must meet the normal tax law requirements for a 100% deductible charitable donation. If you receive any benefits that would be subtracted from a donation under the normal charitable deduction rules (such as free tickets to an event), the distribution cannot be a QCD.
3. It must be a distribution that would otherwise be taxable. A Roth IRA distribution can meet this requirement if it is not a qualified (tax-free) distribution.

Important Points to Remember

• If you inherited an IRA from the deceased original account owner, you can donate using a QCD from the inherited account if you have reached age 70½.
• The maximum annual amount that can qualify for a QCD is $100,000. This limit applies to the sum of QCDs made to one or more charities in a calendar year.
• There are several tax advantages of QCDs. Please contact your financial advisor to discuss these.

Helpful Resources

• Your IRA provider
• Internal Revenue Service

Disclaimer: The content provided is for informational purposes only. The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and its affiliates do not provide tax, legal, accounting, or estate planning advice. The information provided should not be relied upon for tax, legal, accounting, or estate planning advice. You should consult your own tax, legal, and accounting advisors.

Contact the SCCM Team

Please contact SCCM's Chief Philanthropy Officer Mark Lenhart at + 1 847 827-7633 if you have any questions or need additional information on your planned giving options. If you have included a bequest to SCCM in your estate plan or are already planning a qualified charitable distribution, please contact Mark Lenhart to let him know. SCCM wants to thank you and recognize you for your generous gift.

SCCM Giving Clubs

SCCM’s giving clubs recognize generous donors whose cumulative gift in one calendar year (January 1 through December 31) equals one of the donor levels. Giving club members play a critical role in helping to advance SCCM's mission by making generous gifts that help expand its ability to impact the critical care community and to improve the care of critically ill and injured patients around the world.

Legacy Circle

$500 – $1,970 per year

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1971 Club

$1,971 – $4,999 per year

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Presidents Club

$5,000+ per year

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Your Donations in Action

Learn more about how donations to SCCM are used to improve the care of critically ill and injured patients.

SCCM is committed to improving care for patients worldwide. With your support, the Society is making an impact worldwide.

Learn about how your donations are put into action.

2025 Annual Report

Through SCCM Global Health programs and humanitarian activities, the Society is helping healthcare professionals around the world access training and resources that help further the Society’s mission to secure the highest-quality care for all critically ill and injured patients. SCCM’s 2025 Annual Report demonstrates all the ways in which SCCM and its members have helped to improve access to quality care for patients around the world. It also includes valuable information about the generous donations SCCM has received to help advance its mission.

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Disclaimer: The content provided is for informational purposes only. The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and its affiliates do not provide tax, legal, accounting, or estate planning advice. The information provided should not be relied upon for tax, legal, accounting, or estate planning advice. You should consult your own tax, legal, and accounting advisors.