Save the Date
Medical Mission 20th Anniversary Dinner
Date: Monday, Oct. 13
Fairview Medical Missions will be celebrating its
20th Anniversary this fall with a dinner on Monday,
Oct.13. Watch this space for more details this summer.

In our own words - participant experiences
To read about the experiences of Fairview medical
missions participants, click here.

How to apply
          Complete the medical missions application.
          For more information, call Paula Wright at 612-672-6905.

Guidelines
          Special note: Only one grant per applicant per calendar year.

          Requirements to partipate in a medical mission:

• Be a current Fairview employee with one year of Fairview employment
  and at least 20 hours per week, a current Fairview volunteer with a
  minimum of 50 hours per year, a Fairview retiree, or a Fairview Physician
  Associates (FPA) member.
  
• Are an active participant in a group providing medical treatment,
  constructing a medical facility or providing medical education programs.
  (Personal education, surveys, religious activity or other non-medical
  activities are not eligible for Fairview medical mission funds.)
  
• Provide a brief narrative prior to the trip, stating the goal of the mission
  team and the participant's personal goals for the mission.
  
• Submit application by the appropriate application deadline date below.
            Trips taken in:  Jan-Feb          Application due:  Nov 1
            Trips taken in:  Mar-Apr           Application due:  Jan 1
            Trips taken in:  May-Jun          Application due:  Mar 1
            Trips taken in:  Jul-Aug           Application due:  May 1
            Trips taken in:  Sep-Oct          Application due:  Jul 1
            Trips taken in:  Nov-Dec         Application due:  Sep 1
  
• Mail or fax completed application to:
             Fairview Foundation
             Attn: Medical Mission Committee
             2200 Riverside Avenue
             Minneapolis, MN 55454
             Fax:  612-672-7799
  
• Complete the trip evaluation within 30 days of return. Use the medical
  mission evaluation form below. Failure to provide this information will
  make you ineligible for future funding.
  
• Provide documentation of expenses: copies of airline ticket receipt,
  medical supplies purchase receipt. Failure to provide this information
  will make you ineligible for future funding.

Because medical missions funds are limited, one or more of the following
restrictions may be applied in order to distribute available funds:

         1. Individuals who have received Fairview funding fewer than three (3)
              times will receive priority.
         2. Individuals in jobs below the manager level will receive funding priority.
         3. Maximum of three (3) people on same medical mission trip may receive
              travel funding.  
         4. Maximum of two (2) people on same medical mission trip may receive
             medical supply funding.
         5. One grant per applicant per calendar year.

Please note: Due to the number of applicants and the total funding available
at any time, grants may be approved for less than the requested funding.
Fairview Foundation Medical Mission Committee encourages applicants to seek
funding from a variety of sources (church, family, friends.)

When you return
          Post medical missions trip evaluation form with Fairview Foundation.
                We welcome photos of your medical mission trip.
                Please identify the people in the photos, your activity and the country.
                Send your photos and evaluations to Paula Wright, Fairview Foundation,
                2200 Riverside Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55454

Support for Medical Missions
            100% of your gift to medical missions helps to improve
            the health of communities abroad. Fairview Foundation
            charges no administration fee.

Reaching beyond geographic boundaries, the Medical
Missions program provides Fairview employees, affiliated
physicians, retirees and volunteers the opportunity to care
for the medically underserved throughout the world.

If you can't go on a medical misison but you'd like to support
the program, please send a check to Fairview Foundation -
Medical Missions, to Fairview Foundation, 2200 Riverside Ave.,
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Published book about our Medical Missions
          Fairview Press published Caring Hands by Susan J. Alexis. Her book is
          a collection of Fairview participants' personal accounts of their missions.

          To order Caring Hands by Susan J. Alexis, call 1-800-544-8207 or in the  
          Twin Cities metro area, call 612-672-4180.