Meaningful Gift

As the anatomy faculty for Elon University, no gift could possibly be more meaningful to us than the gift you are contemplating today. Each of us has found the anatomic donors we work alongside in our lab to be the best teachers our students can possibly have. We see firsthand when students begin to realize not just the academic “correct answers” about bones, nerves, muscles and organs, but the holistic understanding of the human body, and in fact the human condition. We watch generated curiosity through discoveries of aspects related to clinical knowledge, the development of empathy, the wonder of realization, and the beautiful understanding that everything in human existence is connected and related. These understandings are at the heart of what makes a truly good caregiver or health scientist, and our students have these skills and graces because of people like you. Thank You.

Other Ways to Give

Thank you for considering Elon University’s Anatomical Gift Program. We are deeply appreciative of our magnanimous registrants and “silent teachers” and their timeless gift toward healthcare education.

In addition to the benevolent gift of one’s body after death, everyone has the opportunity to make a different type of gift, a gift to the Anatomical Gift Program Fund, if you so desire. In this way, you will help us honor all who have nobly donated their bodies to further the education of our future healthcare providers. Give directly to the Anatomical Gift Program Fund here, and select “Anatomical Gift Program Fund” from the designation dropdown menu.

Your anticipated gift is deeply appreciated by all of us at Elon’s Anatomical Gift Program and our dedicated graduate students in healthcare!

Vision

Firmly rooted in ethical and moral values, the Elon University Anatomical Gift Program has established a self-sufficient future for its anatomy programs through first person consent to anatomical donation. The program’s growth has allowed these donations to be available to both its own campuses and those of other health care programs across North Carolina.

The program’s vision is to continue standing as a model for best practices for willed body programs nationwide, and to be the benchmark for first-person consent anatomical gift programs among healthcare education programs.

Mission

The mission of the Elon University Anatomical Gift Program is to ensure that the Elon community and surrounding communities recognize first person consent to anatomical donation as a highly valued and meaningful end-of-life option. Through education, policy, advocacy, and respect for donors, the program fosters awareness of the profound impact of anatomical gifts in advancing both the academic and the humanistic aspects of healthcare education.