TMA Foundation SOLUTIONS Newsletter Spring 2025

  • Spring 2025

    President's Message

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    Changing Lives with Better Health

    If you’re a donor to TMA Foundation and/or volunteer for the programs it funds, thank you for bringing life-changing programs to Texans. These include resources such as scholarships, vaccines and vaccine education, physician health and wellness tools, health education books for youth and more. If you’re not yet a donor or volunteer, please join us in amplifying the voices of physicians and our friends of medicine to change lives with better health. 

    In 2025, TMA Foundation's goal is to raise more than $800,000. Please make a gift that is meaningful to you and your vision of a healthier Texas!

    Yours in good health,

    Carla Ortique, MD
    President, TMA Foundation

  • 2024 Annual Report Preview

    TMAF raised an estimated $1,081,184 in 2024, exceeding its fundraising goal by 17%. The Board approved $862,053 in grants to 38 programs, an increase of nearly 2 percent from the $848,340 granted for 45 programs in 2023. This means that for every $1 TMA provides in support of TMAF, the foundation and donors provide TMA more than a six-fold benefit in community health improvement and positive physician image.

    These programs are the following TMA programs funded in 2024:

    • Vaccines Defend What Matters
    • Ernest and Sarah Butler Awards for Excellence in Science Teaching
    • Hard Hats for Little Heads
    • Diversity in Medicine Scholarships
    • Walk with a Doc Texas
    • Texas BookShare
    • Louis J. Goodman Leadership in Medicine Lectureship (at TexMed)

    The foundation funded 42 scholarships (up by four) totaling $368.450. Thirty (up by five) of the 42 are $10,000 each for Texas medical students and to alliance chapter nursing scholarships. The remaining 12 are mostly matching scholarships that range from $1,400 to $5,000 and are awarded to county medical societies and alliance chapters that have their own medical student scholarship program.

    The full 2024 TMAF Annual Report will be emailed and posted on the TMAF website in June!