Donate Money
Help a premature or fragile baby thrive! You can invest in providing life-saving donor human milk to sick babies in these ways:
- Give a one-time gift
- Honor someone’s life or celebrate a special occasion with a gift
- Join our Friends of the Milk Bank giving program (for donors $250 and up)
- Become a Milk Banker and commit to a monthly donation
- Remember the Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin in your estate plans
Where does my money go?
Financial donations to MMBA support one of two critical programs:
Charitable Care:
Life-saving donor human milk is provided by physician prescription to those infants with a medical need, regardless of the family’s ability to pay. No fragile baby will ever be denied donor milk due to a lack of insurance or financial resources.
Research:
Already recognized as a leader in milk bank research, MMBA is building on its knowledge of nutritional composition and its variation in donor human milk to develop ways in which the milk can better meet the needs of the very low birth weight infants. Critical research is only possible through donations for these studies and required equipment.
The bottom line:
100% of financial donations to the Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin are used directly for the Charitable Care or Research Programs. All operational costs for the milk bank are supported through processing fees paid by hospitals using donor human milk for their infants.
Questions about giving? Or call Whitney Musitano, Development Director, directly at 512-579-3975.
FRIENDS OF THE MILK BANK
Friends of the Milk Bank was introduced in December 2010 to recognize those who support MMBA through higher level giving. Friends of the Milk Bank members play an important role in ensuring that MMBA can conduct crucial and groundbreaking research in the fields of milk banking and breast milk, and continue to supply safe and appropriate donor human milk through our Charitable Care Program to those in most critical need, regardless of the family’s ability to pay. Become a member of this exclusive giving program! Please contact Whitney Musitano with any questions at 512-494-0800 or whitney@milkbank.org.
2012 Friends of the Milk Bank Members
$250-499
Rebecca Austen
Allegra Azulay
Mary Barnett
Stephanie Burr
Rochelle Carlin
Anita Csizmadia
Jose De La Garza
Susan Diamond and Scott Hamilton
Kenneth Dorsey
Oneida Espinoza
Juan Guerrero
Veronica Lara
Kyle Lawrence
Mur Anne Lawson
Janie Lorberau
Balaji Mohanaranga
Janet Rourke
Rebecca Trantham
Marcia Tugendhat & James Montanaro
Tiffany Turner, MD
Kim Updegrove, CNM, MSN, MPH
Kathleen Walker
Gretchen Walton
Barbara Wilson-Clay
$500-999
Nancy Beckett
Kimberly Carter
Teresa Kunschik
Katharine Marvin
Mary McCarthy
Allison McDade
Rachel Theriault & Sylvan Schwartz
Amanda Young
Major Donors $1,000+
James and Kay Broaddus
Monica and Mark Cravotta
Bob Gutermuth
Amanda Koellhofer
Alan and Kimberly McCollum
Bradford Moncrieff
Michael Nix, MD
Melissa Plondke
Peter Untalan, MD
Julia Weatherby
Other Ways to Donate
Mail a check
Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin
2911 Medical Arts St., Suite 12
Austin, TX 78705
Give at work
If you work for a major Texas city, Travis County, the State of Texas, or the Federal Government, look for the Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin on your workplace giving campaign website.
Be sure to check if your employer will match your gift or your volunteer time!
Buy groceries and give
If you shop at Randall’s grocery stores you can link your Randall’s Good Neighbor card to the Milk Bank by giving them our Randall’s charity number 8474. A percentage of the money you spend will be donated to the Milk Bank!
