Support the Program

Your generosity helps to support our Program in Occupational Therapy.  For example, donations helped students to participate in the Program through fellowships and funds.  Your gifts directly contribute to future practitioners who greatly impact our communities.  Please consider giving to the Program in Occupational Therapy and indicate your fund choice in your gift.

How to make a gift:

Online:  Visit  www.giving.umn.edu

By phone:  Call 612-626-8560 or 800-775-2187

By mail (include the fund number in the mailing) send to:
University of Minnesota Foundation
P.O. Box 70870; C-M-3854
St. Paul, Minnesota 55170-3854

Fellowships and Funds

Richard J. McCauley Graduate Fellowship in Occupational Therapy
Fund 5643

The goal of this fellowships is to broaden diversity in the Program to enrich the educational experience of our students. This fellowship is open to applicants to the Program in Occupational Therapy.

Borghild Hansen Memorial Fellowship in Occupational Therapy
Fund 5849

The goal of this fellowship is to recruit students who demonstrate overall excellence based on admissions criteria.

McCauley, Alumni & Friends Occupational Therapy
Fieldwork Graduate Fellowship
Fund 6423

To support student education in fieldwork, a fellowship was created through 50th Anniversary funds, alumni & friends contributions, and matched by Richard McCauley.

Marie Louise Wales Fellowship Fund (Fund 1038)

Recipients of the Marie Louise Wales Fellowship award are full-time occupational therapy students enrolled in the Master of Occupational Therapy degree or occupational therapists enrolled in the Rehabilitation Science Program who have demonstrated the potential to contribute to the health of children through occupational therapy.

Jane Dunning Copper and John A. Copper Strategic Initiatives Fund for the Program in Occupational Therapy
Fund 7227

This endowment was established to provide a source of funding for strategic initiatives in the Program in Occupational Therapy. 

Occupational Therapy Fund
Fund 1667

This fund provides general program support for items not included in the general state budget.  For example, this fund covers new student events, creation of new recruiting materials, alumni events, or unique student projects.

Marvin Lepley Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Occupational Therapy
Fund 6299

The goal of this demand fund is to support students enrolled in the Program in Occupational Therapy.  Marvin Lepley was an alumni, instructor and past director of the Program.  The University will match each dollar donated into this fund once the fund reaches $25,000.