Gifts & Donations

Give the Gift of Caring

Your contribution enables WCSI to expand its mission to restore the profound nature of caring-healing within a caring science framework. By working In stewardship with the current health care systems worldwide — we aim to retain and nurture our most precious resource: caring professional nurses and trans-disciplinary care team members.

Tax Deductible

Your contribution is tax deductible (Tax ID# 26-0803334) and will help WCSI to ensure caring and healing for the public, reduce nurse turnover, and decrease costs to the system. We sincerely appreciate your support and generosity.

An official letter confirming the total donation amount you have contributed to WCSI throughout the calendar year will be mailed to you in January. This letter will support your charitable donation tax deduction.

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The Watson Caring Science Legacy Fund

“We’re asking for your support so that together we can transform health care from medical/technical to Caring-Healing Cultures.”

Jean Watson

WCSI is launching a new initiative: THE WATSON CARING SCIENCE LEGACY FUND to support the legacy of Jean Watson’s life work on Caring Science with the continuation and growth of WCSI activities. We need your help so that we can continue to be a resource for all who use Caring Science Theory.

Your gift will ensure Caring Science Theory and educational offers such as the Caritas Coach Education Program® which develops our nurse leaders, as well as our new initiative to offer formal Caring Science Accreditation, will continue for generations to come.

Please choose your level of giving:

  • Gift of Authentic Care

    $100 to $1,000

  • Gift of Openness

    $1,000 to $5,000

  • Gift of Honoring

    $5,000 to $10,000

  • Gift of Loving Kindness

    $10,000 to $15,000

  • Gift of Expression

    $15,000 to $20,000

  • Gift of CARE for Self and others

    $20,000 to $100,000

  • Gift of Miracles

    $100,000 +

Some examples of how your support will help us:

Preserve LEGACY — our new Affiliate Standards Credentialing System evidencing the value of Caring Science within your system. We need staff to help us set this up and to gather and produce clear evidential outcomes.

  • Employing staff to set up and manage our new Affiliate Standards Credentialing System

Support EDUCATION — Caritas Coach Education Program® - towards Faculty to ensure this unique program continues

  • Continue to promote our Caritas Coach Education Program and permeate Human Caring throughout systems and organizations.

Provide SCHOLARSHIP — supporting those who need it towards Doctoral and scholarship programs and global expansion (Middle Eastern Latin America and Europe)

  • Fund Human Caring learning opportunities to expand global programs.

Enrich RESEARCH — continue to gather evaluative indicators to show added value within systems such as our work with Press Ganey.

Expand PRAXIS — support our Caring Science System leaders through ICC and ongoing developing practice models.

Mail

To mail your gift, please send to:

Watson Caring Science Institute
4450 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 100
Boulder, CO 80303

Phone / Email

Speak with someone to explore gifting opportunities:

  (303) 546-7970
  info@watsoncaringscience.org

Caritas Founders and Charter Sponsors

Dr. Jean Watson and the WCSI Board of Directors greatly appreciate and recognize the original underwriters of the creation of the Watson Caring Science Institute upon its origin in 2009.

For more information on how to become a Caritas Founder or Charter Organization, please contact WCSI at    info@watsoncaringscience.org.

WCSI SCHOLARSHIP FUND

  Jan Anderson
  Grissel Hernandez
  Jean Watson
  Julie Watson
  WCSI Board of Directors
  Anonymous

CHARTER CARITAS FOUNDER — Individual — $5,000+

  Ronald Lesinski
  Dallas Smith & Dr. Susan Mazer
  Eli Epstien, Industrial Partners LLC

CHARTER CARITAS FOUNDER — Individual — $1,000+

  Jan Marie Anderson

  Barbara Brewer

  Sylvia Bushell

  Gayle L. Casterline

  Charlotte Delmar

  Marlienne Goldin

  Lois S. Kelley
  Mary Rockwood Lane
  Judy McDowell

 Joyce Perkins

  Teri Pipe

  Kathleen Sitzman
  Brooks Turkel

  Marian Turkel

  A. Lynne Wagner

Charter Caritas Founder — Healthcare Organizations — $20,000+

  Albert Einstein Healthcare Network - Philadelphia, PA
  Baptist Hospital of Miami - Miami, FL
  Bon Secours Health System, Inc. - Marriottsville, MD

  Chesapeake Regional Medical Center - Chesapeake, VA
  Gundersen Lutheran - La Crosse - WI
  John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital - Phoenix, AZ
  John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital - Phoenix, AZ

  Mountain States Health Alliance - Johnson City, TN
  Scottsdale Healthcare (Honorary) - Scottsdale, AZ

Charter Caritas Founder — University-College Systems — $20,000+

  Universidad Mariana - San Juan De Pasto, Colombia