Klapper Family Global Compassion Scholars Fund
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Global health education can transform how health professionals understand medicine, patients, and their responsibility to others. Through the IU Center for Global Health and the AMPATH partnership, IU residents, fellows, and faculty learn alongside colleagues in Kenya, gaining skills in listening, adapting, and collaborating across cultures and health systems.
But cost can put these experiences out of reach.
The Klapper Family Global Compassion Scholars Fund was created to help overcome the hurdle. The endowed fund provides broad, flexible, lasting support for trainees and faculty across disciplines who participate in global health education programs coordinated by IU and AMPATH. By helping remove financial barriers, you can give more health professionals the opportunity to develop greater compassion, cultural humility, and resourcefulness—qualities they will carry into their care of patients abroad in Kenya, back home in Indiana, and beyond.
Your giving matters
Global health experiences have a way of changing how you think about medicine, your patients, and your responsibility to others as a global citizen. Our family wants to help make sure those opportunities continue to be available to people who will carry those lessons into their careers and their communities.
Dr. Jacob Klapper Cardiothoracic surgeon and associate professor of surgery at Duke University School of Medicine
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Please note, the name and purpose of the fund displayed on this page constitute the authorized description of the fund by the Indiana University Foundation, Inc. Your gift supports the fund as described herein.
This account is an endowment. Your gifts to this fund will be invested in perpetuity to provide annual income to support the purpose of the account. Per Indiana University Foundation, Inc. policy, endowment accounts which do not ultimately become fully funded at the required minimum through pledges/gifts will be converted to an expendable account supporting the same purpose as the original endowed fund.
Gifts will be administered by the Indiana University Foundation, Inc. which represents Indiana University, including the IU School of Medicine. This is not a gift to Indiana University Health, and the Indiana University Health Foundation will not play a role in administering these accounts.