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For over 75 years, The William Alanson White Institute has fulfilled a dual mission. In addition to providing affordable clinical services for a wide range of residents in New York City and the metropolitan area, the Institute is an internationally renowned psychoanalytic training center. All contributions to the Institute directly support our clinic and training programs.

Support the work of the William Alanson White Institute

A donation to the Institute’s Annual Appeal provides unrestricted use of revenue, allowing us to direct funds where they are most needed. These funds subsidize the Institute’s many educational programs; provide excellent low fee mental health services; support specialized study groups; maintain the Institute’s facilities; and underwrite a range of programs, some of which are open to the lay and professional public at no charge.

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Make an Endowed Gift

Endowed Gifts assure the permanency and constancy of the Institute’s mission. Endowment funds are invested and only the income generated from these funds is spent. Common forms these gifts may take are scholarship or speaker funds. Donors may create an endowed gift in the name of someone they wish to honor.

Individuals wishing to make a gift to the William Alanson White Institute may use a variety of methods to do so. In addition to contributing funds via check or credit card, donors may transfer securities to the Institute, a form of support that confers certain tax advantages. Donors may also include the Institute in their estate planning, ie, by specifying the Institute as a beneficiary of all or a portion of their individual retirement account or simplified employee pension account. Other tax advantaged approaches to furthering the work of the Institute include planned gifts, bequests, charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, memorials and endowments. Contributions to the William Alanson White Institute, a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, are deductible.

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Your gift to the William Alanson White Institute helps provide needed services to individuals coping with the challenges of living through enhancement of their own capacities, and supports the training of highly skilled psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. To find out more about how to make a secure donation and the many ways your gift can support our mission, please contact either Elizabeth Krimendahl, PsyD, Executive Director, at (212) 873-0725 Ext.15, director@wawhite.org, or Richard Herman, Director of Administration, at (212) 873-0725 Ext. 14, r.herman@wawhite.org.

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