Philanthropic support helps IMS advance myeloma education, scientific exchange, and global collaboration. Explore the giving options below to find the way to support IMS that best matches your interests.
Philanthropic Giving Opportunities
Individual giving: Make a one-time gift to support IMS’s mission and current priorities.
Monthly giving: Provide steady, ongoing support through an automatic monthly contribution.
Leadership commitments: Make a multi-year gift that gives IMS flexible support for priority initiatives.
Program support: Direct your gift to education, scientific workshops, trainee participation, emerging leader development, or global knowledge sharing.
Foundation or institutional support: Align grant-making with IMS priorities that strengthen the myeloma field.
Corporate or industry support: Support education, convening, awareness, or mission-building opportunities.
Honor or memorial gifts: Recognize someone affected by myeloma with a gift that helps move the field forward.
What Your Gift Supports
Education: Expanding learning opportunities for clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals.
Collaboration: Creating trusted spaces for scientific exchange and global knowledge sharing.
Future leaders: Supporting trainees, early-career investigators, and the infrastructure needed to grow IMS’s impact.
Methods of Making a Gift
Online giving: Use the secure online form to make a one-time or recurring gift and select your gift amount and frequency. [insert link to donation form]
Wire or ACH transfer: Contact IMS before initiating a bank transfer so the team can provide instructions and ensure your gift is properly credited and acknowledged.
Donor-advised fund: Recommend a grant to IMS through your donor-advised fund sponsor and include any preferred designation with your recommendation.
Stock or securities: Contact IMS for transfer details before contributing appreciated securities. Donors may wish to consult a tax advisor about potential benefits.
Planned giving: Include IMS in your estate plans through a bequest, beneficiary designation, or other legacy gift that supports the Society’s future work.
Matching gifts: Check with your employer or benefits office to see whether your gift to IMS is eligible for a company match.
Corporate sponsorship or partnership: Partner with IMS to support education, convenings, awareness, or mission-building initiatives aligned with shared goals.
Discuss a Gift
To explore the best giving option for your goals, please contact IMS. The IMS team would welcome the opportunity to discuss your interests and identify the most impactful way to support the Society’s mission.
Why Become a Member
The International Myeloma Society is a professional, scientific, and medical society established to bring together clinical and experimental scientists involved in the study of myeloma. The purpose of this society is to promote research, education, clinical studies (including diagnosis and treatment), workshops, conferences, and symposia on all aspects of multiple myeloma worldwide.
The IMS is a membership organization comprised of basic research scientists, and clinical investigators in the field along with physicians and other healthcare practitioners.
