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The UCSF Memory and Aging Center appreciates the generous and ongoing support of the community, patients and families. Our work would not be possible without you.

My 38-year-old husband is in the late stages of frontotemporal dementia. I hate this disease with a passion I never knew. Something has to be done so that not one more family has to go through this. Dr. Bruce Miller of UCSF is my hero! Keep pushing for a cure!

UCSF Family Caregiver

Join Us in Radically Transforming Health

Your contribution directly enables the Memory and Aging Center (MAC) to offer the highest quality of compassionate clinical care for patients and family members who are seen by a multidisciplinary team of experts. Insurance and patient fees cover only a fraction of the cost for this personalized treatment. In addition to patient care, the team at the Memory and Aging Center conducts high-impact scientific research and clinical trials to transform laboratory breakthroughs into viable treatments. Gifts and pledges from individuals make this groundbreaking work possible. Find out how your gift will help to make the Bay Area – and the world – healthier for all. Discover UCSF: The Campaign.

The MAC is part of the University of California, San Francisco, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt organization designated by the Internal Revenue Code. All gifts are tax-deductible.

Make a Gift Online

Your gift has an immediate impact when you make an online donation. To make a secure donation online to the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, go to makeagift.ucsf.edu/brain and complete the online form.

Make a Gift

Memorial gifts to support UCSF’s frontotemporal dementia research program can be made online at makeagift.ucsf.edu/FTD.

For donations to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) clinical research program at the Memory and Aging Center, please go to makeagift.ucsf.edu/brain or click the Make A Gift button above, then click the “Direct your gift to a specific area” button and type "MAC-CJD Fund B1760" in the "Other" field. Then complete the rest of the form and submit.

Make a Gift by Mail

Please make your check payable to the UCSF Foundation and include MAC Fund B1871 in the memo line of your check to support the Memory and Aging Center’s research. To make the gift in memory of a special family member or friend, please include the name of the individual on your check or in a separate note.

Memorial contributions to support UCSF’s frontotemporal dementia research efforts can be made by check payable to UCSF Foundation and should include MAC-FTD Fund B1566 and the name of the person being memorialized in the memo line or cover note.

For donations to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) clinical research program at the Memory and Aging Center, please make your check payable to the UCSF Foundation and include MAC-CJD Fund B1760 in the memo line of your check. To make the gift in memory of a special family member or friend, please include the name of the individual on your check or in a separate note.

Please mail all checks to:
UCSF Foundation
Lockbox 45339
San Francisco, CA 94145-0339

Make a Gift at Tax Time

California law allows taxpayers to contribute money to the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Research Fund by checking a box on your state income tax return. Contributions through the tax check-off may be claimed as charitable contributions on your tax returns the following year.

To contribute, go to line 401 on your state tax form 540 where the Alzheimer’s Research Fund is named. Indicate the amount that you’d like to contribute. That amount will either be deducted from your refund or added to the amount you owe when making your payment. Funds are distributed by the director of the California Department of Public Health through competitive grants to scientists based at California public or private nonprofit organizations.

More Information

We can work with you to find the solution that best meets your philanthropic needs and intentions. For more information about pledges, planned gifts, bequests, matching gifts, named endowments or other gifts, please contact Erica Hipp at [email protected] or 415.476.0506.