What the Weil Foundation Supports

Through teaching, clinical practice, research, and public education over the past thirty years, Andrew Weil, M.D., has helped define and establish integrative medicine. His work has been part of a revolution in public attitudes and professional awakening about health and health care. The public has grown less passive and better informed about conventional medicine. People increasingly reach out to other traditions. They are impatient with health care delivery that treats them as body systems, not whole persons, and that still scarcely uses complementary and alternative resources. Physicians and others trained in conventional medicine increasingly seek to expand their knowledge and use of complementary and alternative approaches.

Costs - to patients, employers, and society - are a powerful factor in the growing interest in integrative medicine. With its emphasis on prevention, self-care, and less-costly, less-invasive interventions, integrative medicine holds the promise of reducing the now-unsupportable costs of health care.

The movement for new approaches to health, in keeping with the principles of integrative medicine, is well launched. But much innovation is needed and many barriers must be overcome if integrative medicine is to deliver on its promise for human health.

Andrew Weil, M.D., has created the Weil Foundation as a way of marshaling resources to help meet these challenges.

Guidelines for Those Seeking Support from the Weil Foundation

Non-profit organizations working toward the goals and themes of the Weil Foundation should visit this website periodically to learn about specific grant programs the Foundation is developing and how to apply. See Guidelines for Weil Foundation Support for more information.

Contribute to the Weil Foundation

Andrew Weil, M.D., has made his pledge of annual contributions to the Weil Foundation in the hope that others will join him in support of integrative medicine. Donations are fully tax-deductible.

To make a contribution, click on Donate Now button.

Weil Foundation Operating Principles

In its operations, the Weil Foundation seeks to express the values underlying integrative medicine and the best practices in philanthropy. It will:

• Cooperate with other organizations in order to achieve the greatest impact
• Treat all grant-seekers with respect
• Provide clear and timely information to the public about the Foundation's policies, practices, decisions, and finances
• Be open to new ideas, critiques, and suggestions, while also protecting itself from inappropriate influence by other institutions, donors, or government
• Abide by the standards of practice enunciated by the Council on Foundations and by Independent Sector regarding the management of foundations and non-profit institutions

The Weil Foundation values diversity of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and degree of disability in all of its policies. It tolerates no discrimination along any of these dimensions.