Campaign Priorities
Forever on the Path: Our Campaign Priorities
Through Campaign 150, Meharry Medical College is focused on six key priorities that will shape the future of healthcare and ensure we remain Forever on the Path of excellence, service, and leadership. We are strengthening academic programs to prepare outstanding healthcare professionals, advancing research and innovation to address the most pressing health challenges, and enhancing our facilities to create an environment where students, faculty, and researchers can thrive.
By investing in these priorities, we’re securing Meharry’s legacy for the next 150 years—and building healthier, stronger communities for generations to come.
Scholarship Support
Provide opportunity for aspiring healthcare professionals who seek to practice primary care and serve the underserved.
Make significant progress towards our aspiration to cover at least 50% of tuition in perpetuity for all students.
$140 million to fund scholarships for students enrolled in all of Meharry’s schools.
Research Facility
Establish Meharry as a world-class center of excellence focusing on diseases and health challenges that affect non-white populations and underserved communities.
Elevate and advance critical research focused on both care and cure by creating a modern, integrated research center that brings together clinical research, data science, and transdisciplinary partnerships.
$75 million to double Meharry’s research space and centralize research efforts in a new, state-of-the-art facility
Program Support
Expand and evolve medical education at Meharry to meet growing needs, support many more students, and significant increase our community impact.
$45 million in programmatic support that will advance research and education across our entire institution.
Faculty Support
Attract and support exceptional teacher-scholars who connect with and inspire future health leaders, serve our community, and conduct nationally recognized research.
Elevate Meharry’s profile as a world-class health sciences center focused on black, rural, and underserved communities—where the best and brightest come to advance the kind of medicine, dentistry, and science that matters most for our world and for the communities we serve.
$35 million to advance Meharry’s world-class faculty by recruiting clinical leaders, endowing chairs and attracting magnet scientists and researchers.
Vision Fund
Provide robust, immediate support for Meharry’s mission and operations, our strategic priorities, and emerging needs and opportunities.
$25 million to support the full range of Meharry’s mission and operations, including meeting urgent near-term needs, investing in strategic priorities and respond nimbly to emerging major opportunities.
Endowment
Significantly grow Meharry’s endowment to honor our past, elevate our present, and power our future.
$180 million to significantly grow Meharry’s endowment in order to sustain the full breath of Meharry’s mission year-in and year-out, build a permanent foundation of support and enable long-term planning.