McLean Giving Day is February 25

An Important Day in McLean’s History

On February 25, 1811, McLean Hospital was founded by a charter granted by the Massachusetts Legislature. This milestone began our long-standing commitment to advancing mental health care, research, and education. Over 200 years later, McLean is proud to remain a leader in behavioral and mental health.

This Giving Day, your monthly support helps ensure patients and families continue to receive exceptional care every day. When you choose to give monthly, you help sustain our work throughout the year, allowing us to meet ongoing needs and provide care when it’s needed most.

Your Monthly Gift Matters

Mental health treatment doesn’t happen overnight – it requires consistency and sustained resources. Monthly giving provides steady, reliable support that helps McLean provide expert care every day to patients and families throughout their mental health journeys.

Monthly gifts allow McLean to plan ahead, respond quickly to emerging needs, and ensure that care, research, and training remain strong and accessible year-round. For patients and their families, that consistency makes a meaningful difference.

Monthly giving to The McLean Fund provides flexible support, allowing the hospital to address its most critical priorities as they arise. This provides a foundation that strengthens the programs, research, and clinical expertise that patients and families rely on throughout the year.

By giving monthly, you can help change the lives of individuals facing behavioral and mental health challenges – people like Larry, who received treatment for severe depression at McLean Hospital. He shared with us:

Now, he gives back to the McLean community as a monthly donor to the McLean Fund to help ensure others have access to the same compassionate care that supported his recovery, sharing:

Stories like Larry’s are possible because of consistent support from our donor community. Your monthly gift can have the same meaningful impact that helps transform lives like Larry’s.

Lead Through Monthly Giving

Donors who give $1,000 or more annually to the McLean Fund are recognized as members of the Mary Belknap Society, McLean’s leadership annual giving society. Members of the Mary Belknap Society provide vital support that strengthens patient clinical services, fuels research, and trains mental health professionals.

Monthly gifts of $84 or more qualify for Mary Belknap Society membership, offering an impactful and accessible path to providing annual leadership support throughout the year.

We invite you to join the Mary Belknap Society today to play a critical role in helping McLean Hospital advance its mission.

The Impact Your Monthly Gift Can Have

Your monthly gifts to McLean provide year-round support that helps fund life-changing care for patients and families, innovative research that improves treatment options, and training for the mental health professionals who will serve the community for years to come.

Every monthly gift, no matter the size, contributes to this work, creating a real, measurable difference for patients and families. Last year, donors helped support: