Giving to Stony Brook Cancer Center

At Stony Brook Cancer Center, every gift matters. Regardless of the amount, each and every gift is important to the future of the Cancer Center and its critical mission of research and patient care as an integral part of Long Island’s premiere academic medical institution.

Your investments enable us to recruit and retain the greatest minds for our faculty, acquire state-of-the-art technology for discovery, and develop programs that will create new knowledge that help propel healthcare advances forward.

Philanthropy is critical to the success of Stony Brook Cancer Center. Your generosity will impact lives for generations to come.

Contact Deborah Colgan for Giving Questions or Information

Deborah Colgan

Deborah Colgan

  • Associate Director for Advancement and Cause Marketing

Stony Brook Cancer Center
Advancement Office
Hospital Pavilion, L5, RM 5W-515
101 Nicolls Rd.
Stony Brook, NY 11794-7263

We are a world-class Cancer Center. Ambitious ideas, imaginative solutions and exceptional leadership are the cornerstone of this state-of-the-art facility. Stony Brook Cancer Center is continuing to focus on developing programs that will foster breakthroughs and transform the study and practice of cancer medicine. We are inspiring discovery with cutting-edge research and acquiring and employing advanced technology that can create more effective and targeted treatments, as well as prevent specific cancers.

Give

Please contact me with questions or to give.

Deborah Colgan
Associate Director for Advancement and Cause Marketing

Stony Brook Cancer Center

The Grateful Patient Program is a way to say, “thank you” and to recognize those who have provided exceptional care: a doctor, a nurse or one of our dedicated staff. There are lots of ways to say thank you. Whether you choose to honor a staff member or an entire department, your donation is a meaningful way to show your gratitude while supporting improvements to patient care.

Gifts to the Grateful Patient Program help us to continue exceptional care for our patients at Stony Brook Cancer Center. Your gift may support patient care in areas of the greatest need (unrestricted) or in a department or service of special meaning to you (restricted).

Gifts can also be made in honor or memory of a loved one, or in honor of a Stony Brook Cancer Center team member. Any gift you offer will help to make a difference in the lives of the patients we have yet to meet.

Give

Please contact me with questions or to give.

Deborah Colgan
Associate Director for Advancement and Cause Marketing

Stony Brook Cancer Center
Advancement Office
Hospital Pavilion, L5, RM 5W-515
101 Nicolls Rd.
Stony Brook, NY 11794-7263

Clinical trials at Stony Brook Cancer Center are the building blocks for the future. These research studies provide access to new treatments, with results that can advance new information and new understanding about improvements in cancer prevention and treatment. This leads to more effective therapies and results for adults and children. Our well-established and robust Cancer Clinical Trials Program has more than 100 clinical trials available for patients.

The program allows scientists and doctors to develop unique clinical trials, some offered only at Stony Brook Cancer Center. We currently have clinical studies for every major cancer site and include treatments for many different types of cancer. Your philanthropic funding helps us to continue this robust program and to offer clinical trials to more patients.

Give

Please contact me with questions or to give.

Deborah Colgan
Associate Director for Advancement and Cause Marketing

Stony Brook Cancer Center

At Stony Brook Cancer Center, we partner with patients before, during and after their care by providing support programs. Reliable transportation to treatment is a barrier that many patients face during their cancer journey. By offering a platform of transportation services to our patients in treatment we are able to remove these barriers and impact their outcomes. Funding to expand non-emergency medical transportation services will help provide better access for our patients receiving care.

Because prevention is another key pillar of Stony Brook Cancer Center, we have important screening programs as well:

  • A fully outfitted Mobile Mammography Van with a mission to make sure every woman on Long Island, age 40 and older, who needs a mammogram has easy and convenient access. All year long, it travels throughout Suffolk and Nassau counties to key locations. Get more information and to register
  • Our Lung Cancer Screening Program is another way we are helping to save lives. The Center for Lung Cancer Screening and Prevention offers an annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) scan for individuals at high risk. Get more information and to register
  • Additional screenings include ongoing prostate, breast, colorectal cancer screenings, and an annual skin cancer screening event in May.

Give

Please contact me with questions or to give.

Deborah Colgan
Associate Director for Advancement and Cause Marketing

Stony Brook Cancer Center

Ways Your Gift Positively Impacts Our Patients

Your gift to Stony Brook Cancer Center provides valuable, immediate resources and momentum as we plan to become even stronger and more dynamic. Because of you, Stony Brook Cancer Center can meet our mission to make a difference in the lives of all the patients we serve—and the families who love them.

We are grateful for all the donors who have contributed to the Stony Brook Cancer Center, including:

  • Kavita and Lalit Bahl for their donation of $13.75 million to establish the Kavita and Lalit Bahl Center for Metabolomics and Imaging.
  • A $150,000 gift from Stony Brook alumni Gloria Snyder ’72 and Mark Snyder ’69 of Belle Terre, NY, to establish the “Gloria and Mark Snyder Symposium” for Cancer Medicine. Learn More >
  • George and Olga Tsunis who have established an endowed fellowship for an MD or PhD pursuing biomedical research at Stony Brook Medicine.
  • Stony Brook Donors support the inaugural holder of the Renaissance Endowed Professorship in Cancer Biology, Dr. Ute Moll, vice chair for experimental pathology at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University who is internationally recognized for her work in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics. Her landmark research, focusing on how cancer evolves and how cancer cells respond to many existing treatments to help predict which types of cancers will respond best to particular treatments, captured the attention of nine local Renaissance Technologies families.
  • The Campaign for Stony Brook, which raised $630.7 million from 47,961 friends, alumni, foundations and corporations, exceeding the $600 million goal by five percent.

For helping to make it all possible, we thank you for your support!

Ways to Give

Gifts may be made through an outright contribution of cash, securities, real estate or other real or personal property, as well as through planned, annual giving, estate gifts such as bequests and trusts, and life income gifts, such as charitable gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts. We also welcome your pledge. Pledges of more than $5,000 may be fulfilled over a multi-year period (up to five years).

Gifts may be made by check, money order or credit card.

You may be able to increase the value of your gift if your company or employer has a matching gift program. If you are not sure if there is a matching gift program, please contact us.

When you become a Stony Brook Cancer Center monthly donor, you help ensure that we have what’s needed to reach our philanthropic goals.

A gift of appreciated securities may be an advantageous way for individuals to make a gift to Stony Brook Cancer Center by avoiding or reducing capital gains taxes. On the other hand, if you choose to use depreciated securities to make your gift, in most cases it will be more advantageous to sell the shares and give the proceeds to Stony Brook Cancer Center. To make a gift of stock shares, please contact us and we can assist you.

Planned gifts offer an opportunity to help donors retain or receive income in addition to providing assets to Stony Brook Cancer Center. Please consult your legal and financial advisors to determine the tax advantages of making a planned gift to us. We would also be pleased to discuss with you the variety of ways that a planned gift can benefit you and your family as well as Stony Brook Cancer Center.

Endowments are perpetual and give donors the opportunity to support multiple generations of students and faculty, thereby making a lasting impact on Stony Brook Cancer Center. If you are interested in making a “gift that keeps on giving,” please contact us.

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