The Need for Community Support

Center Infrastructure Support, Capacity Building, and Innovation Fund

The Center for Spirituality & Healing is committed to building an endowment that will supplement the infrastructure support provided by the University and will fund innovative new program development.

Endowed Funding:  $10,000,000

Faculty Leadership

Creating an endowed chair for the Center for Spirituality & Healing will assure long-term stability and continuity of leadership that is vital to faculty recruitment and development, building research capacity, and sustaining innovative program development.

Academic Support:  $2,000,000

Faculty Research Fellowships

The Center’s most valuable asset is the intellectual capital that the faculty brings to the field of complementary care and the University of Minnesota.  The faculty research fellowship program provides financial support to faculty that enables them to devote up to 50 percent of their time over two years to initiate new research in areas of complementary therapies and healing practices.

Annual Support:  $37,500; Endowed Support: $600,000

Learning and Well-Being Center

The Center has reached the level where we need dedicated space to support student learning, outreach, and research. This complex will be an integrated interior and exterior environment, intentionally designed as a healing experience for those who use it and as a model for students who are future health care decision-makers. It will provide an environment to support both classroom and experiential aspects of the Center’s academic programs, a space to facilitate research in areas such as botanical medicine and human-environmental interaction, as well as a flexible space and “living classroom” for the Center’s outreach programs.

Capital Project:  $3,500,000

Outreach Support

To educate and inspire the greater community, funding is needed to support lecture series, workshops, seminars, the Inner Life of Healers Program, The Purpose Project, and ongoing development of our online learning resources.

Annual Support:  $150,000

For more information about how you can support the Center, call Elizabeth Lake at 612-624-1121.