Did you or a loved one benefit from exceptional care at Stony Brook’s Neurosciences Institute? Whether you choose to honor a staff member or an entire department, your donation is a meaningful way to show your gratitude while supporting our work. Gifts can also be made in honor or memory of a loved one.

Please honor your caregiver today.

Medicine never stands still, and it progresses fastest at an academic medical center. We are often able to offer new treatments and protocols to patients more quickly, thanks to our close collaboration between clinical care teams and some of the country’s brightest minds in research.

Please support our research program today.

The Neurosciences Institute is dedicated to educating and training the next generation of outstanding clinicians and researchers through fellowships, residency programs, and more. Our programs support the acquisition of new knowledge and skills, promote attitudes of humanism and compassion, foster habits for well-being, provide mentorship and feedback, and more.

Please support our educational programs today.

Clinical trials at Stony Brook’s Neurosciences Institute are the building blocks for the future. These research studies provide access to new treatments, with results that can advance new information and understanding about improvements in disease prevention and treatment. This leads to more effective therapies and results for adults and children. Our well-established program allows scientists and doctors to develop unique clinical trials, some offered only at Stony Brook Medicine.Your philanthropic funding helps us to continue our robust program and to offer these clinical trials, and new hope, to more patients.

Please support clinical trials today.

Gifts to the Neurosciences Institute may be made through an outright contribution of cash, securities, real estate or other real or personal property, as well as through planned, annual giving, estate gifts such as bequests and trusts, and life income gifts, such as charitable gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts. We also welcome your pledge. Pledges of more than $5,000 may be fulfilled over a multi-year period (up to five years).

For more information on how to give, contact:

Amanda Sabanos, Director of Development
Stony Brook’s Neurosciences Institute
Office: (631) 316-0371
Amanda.Sabanos@StonyBrookMedicine.edu

Gifts may be made by check, money order or credit card (MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover) 

You can make your gift online here.

Checks and money orders should be made payable to the “Stony Brook Foundation” and mailed to:

Checks are credited in the year postmarked on the outer envelope. You will receive a receipt from the Foundation, as well as a year-end receipt of all your giving for tax purposes.

Make it easy. Give monthly:
When you become a Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute monthly donor, you help ensure that we have what’s needed to reach our philanthropic goals. To make a monthly donation to Stony Brook’s Neurosciences Institute visit this page and check monthly giving. 

You may be able to increase the value of your gift if your company or employer has a matching gift program.

More on how your company may match your gift.

A gift of appreciated securities may be an advantageous way for you to give to the Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute while avoiding or reducing capital gains taxes.  If you choose to use depreciated securities to make your gift, in most cases, it will be more advantageous to sell the shares and give the proceeds to Stony Brook’s Neurosciences Institute.

Please consult with your legal and financial advisor.

More on how to make a stock gift.

Planned gifts offer an opportunity to help you retain or receive income while providing vital resources to the Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute.

Please consult your legal and financial advisors to determine the tax advantages of making a planned gift.

How to make a planned gift.

Endowments are perpetual and offer you the opportunity to support multiple generations of patients, practitioners, and physician-researchers, thereby making a lasting impact. 

If you are interested in making a “gift that keeps on giving,” please review our Endowment Gift Page for more details.