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More than a medical society, ACLM is a catalyst for a healthier world

By uniting clinicians, educators, health systems, organizations and policy leaders, we’re building a future where evidence-based lifestyle medicine forms the foundation of health and healthcare.

With partners like you, we’re moving beyond symptom management to create a new healthcare paradigm that empowers clinicians, supports patients and enables communities to thrive. Together, we are putting the ‘care’ back into healthcare.

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Your support makes a healthier world through lifestyle medicine possible.

Make a one-time or recurring gift. The American College of Lifestyle Medicine is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN 32-020845). 

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The transformative power of lifestyle medicine

Chronic disease has become the greatest threat to our health, economy and future. Rates in both adults and children have reached epidemic levels and account for 90% of healthcare costs. Our nation, and arguably our world, has reached an inflection point. The urgency to reverse the effects of chronic disease for this generation and for the next has never been greater.

A proven solution is not only possible – it’s already underway.

ACLM's impact to date

For over two decades, ACLM has been at the forefront of shifting the healthcare paradigm by building an evidence-based approach centered on root-case, whole-person care. With the support of our stakeholders and partners, we’ve achieved meaningful and measurable progress:

6,000+ clinicians are board certified in lifestyle medicine, representing 92 countries worldwide

300+ academic programs are implementing lifestyle medicine curriculum

120+ health systems, FQHCs and payers are engaged in ACLM programs

80+ corporate and strategic partners are collaborating to accelerate our efforts

Millions of lives and countless communities have been reached through lifestyle medicine clinicians

860+ scholarships have been awarded and 65,000+ clinicians have enrolled in no-cost foundational training through donor support

Your support changes lives through:

Education

Transforming how the next generation of clinicians
are trained and how today’s interprofessional
workforce is supported.

  • Expanding access to board certification and continuing education in lifestyle medicine and food as medicine
  • Embedding lifestyle medicine across medical, nursing, and other health schools
  • Supporting clinician resilience and preventing burnout
  • Collaborating with systems to support lifestyle medicine training as a vital and required component of delivering quality, whole-person care

Implementation

Scaling real-world solutions across care delivery
settings and within communities.

  • Partnering with health systems, community health centers, health plans and state and municipal leaders to scale lifestyle medicine regionally, nationally and globally
  • Demonstrating cost savings and improved patient outcomes through innovative pilots and demonstrations of lifestyle medicine shared medical appointments (LMSMAs)
  • Supporting employer cost savings by adopting lifestyle medicine as an employee benefit

Influence

Ensuring lifestyle medicine becomes the standard of
care at a systemic level.

  • Advocating for policy reform that makes practicing lifestyle medicine easier and more cost effective
  • Advancing at-scale lifestyle medicine research, creation of clinical guidelines, and forming expert consensus statements that further standardize the field
  • Attaining broad awareness of the power of lifestyle medicine

Your role in the future of health

Be part of the solution.

We are seeking disrupters, change agents, and catalysts—individuals and organizations who believe in systems-level change and share our vision for a healthier future.

This is a pivotal moment. We’ve proven what’s possible. Now we need your support to amplify and accelerate our collective impact.

Your gift to ACLM helps us expand our reach, grow a lifestyle medicine-trained workforce, and ensure that every person, regardless of income, geography or diagnosis, has access to care that heals.

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Ways to give

We make it easy for you to support the advancement of lifestyle medicine in the ways that work best for you. Every gift matters, and every dollar is put to work with transparency and purpose.

*Individuals and companies who donate $1,500+ annually are recognized as Lifestyle Medicine Champions 

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Frequently Asked Questions

Make an immediate difference at any level of gift.  

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Or mail a check to:  

American College of Lifestyle Medicine
P.O. Box 6432
Chesterfield, MO 63006 

Join a community of monthly donors committed to long-term change. 

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Major gifts of $100,000 or more catalytic and visionary. We work closely with major donors to align impact with your goals.  

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Collaborate with ACLM to fund field-level change initiatives and address systemic needs gaps.  

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ACLM is grateful to accept cash donations in any amount, grants through Donor Advised Funds (DAFs), non-cash assets such as appreciated stock or securities, and estate gifts. For more information on how to donate in these ways, please review the FAQ in our Help Center.

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Stories of donor impact

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Impact Stories

Planning a legacy in lifestyle medicine

Dr. Beth Frates and her husband Jim have established a planned gift for ACLM so they can continue to support the organization and the field of lifestyle medicine after they are gone.

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ACLM, Aspen Institute event highlights food as medicine for type 2 diabetes treatment and prevention

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Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality in Lifestyle Medicine Summit: A resounding success

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Academic Integration

“Lifestyle medicine is the most positive thing happening in the medical space”

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Thank you to our generous donors & impact partners

ACLM, along with our clinicians and communities they serve, are grateful to all who power our collective work, the individuals, companies and foundation who believe in the future of evidence-based, whole-person care.

Beth Frates, MD, FACLM, DipABLM

“Knowing that a gift keeps on giving is the key, and giving to ACLM accomplishes that. Jim and I know that the money we give to ACLM will be used to help advance the practice and art of lifestyle medicine, and that this will impact the lives of thousands of patients. We have faith that our decision will be a powerful one that enables further transformation in healthcare.”

Simon Matthews FACLM MHlthSc DipIBLM

Like many colleagues (and now also friends!) I’ve met through ACLM, I had an experience of reading about lifestyle medicine and then thinking to myself… “This is the way I work with my clients”. The more time I spend working in this field, the more convinced I become that lifestyle medicine is the best way we have to create opportunities for better individual and community health and to support the health and wellbeing of clinicians. I’ve met so many who say lifestyle medicine rescued their career and helped restore the passion they had for their work. My contribution alone is small, but together we can reshape the experience of healthcare our children and grandchildren will have.

Cheryl Mothes, MSN, MBA, PhD

“ACLM gives me hope that practitioners not only can, but ARE, making a difference to finally move us away from needless suffering caused by the conditions that a vast majority of humans suffer with on a daily basis. When I think of the heartache that not only patients, but their families and friends – those who love them – can be spared through the efforts of ACLM, I am heartened and hopeful! I have absolute confidence that by giving to ACLM, we are a part of THE revolution in healthcare that will change our society in miraculous ways!”

Stephen Turner, MD, DipABLM

“The time is now for lifestyle medicine to become the foundation of health and health care. I truly believe lifestyle medicine is the most positive thing happening in the medical space. I am excited to do my part to keep that positive momentum going.”

Cheryl True, MD, DipABLM, FACLM

“Supporting an organization like ACLM happens through various actions such as using branded resources in practice, giving of time through volunteering in leadership roles like the MIG officer positions, or even donating to provide financial support. We can move lifestyle medicine to the forefront more quickly if we support ACLM in it’s mission, so providing philanthropic support is a natural way to help bring about the changes I want to see happen in health care.”

LM Champions

LORE
Ardmore Institute of Health
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Principled Transformations
TrueNorth Health Foundation
Stephen T. Turner, MD, DipABLM
Greenbaum Foundation
Beth Frates, MD, FACLM, DipABLM
Alexandrina Patty, MSN-MACP
Arnold L. Gorske, MD, FAAP
Kathleen Johnson Pihl, MD
Kaushal Sondarwa, MD, MPH, DipABLM
Alexandrina Patty, MSN-MACP
Cate Collings, MD, MS, FACC, DipABLM, FACLM
Kathleen Pihl, MD
Kaushal K. Sondarwa, MD, MPH, DipABLM
Sheila Dave and Sherry Gold Foundation
William Nguyen, MD, MPH
Padmaja Patel, MD, DipABLM, FACLM
Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, DipABLM
Sheila, Dave and Sherry Gold Foundation
Simon Matthews, FASLM, DipIBLM
Susan and Jon Benigas
The Herzberg Family Wellness Foundation
Sami A. Bég MD, MPA, MPH, FACLM
Dexter Shurney, MD, MPH, MBA, DipABLM, FACLM
William Wong, MD, DipABLM
Elizabeth Fontaine, MD, DipABLM, FACLM
Cheryl True & Andy Barcus
Peter Shedden, MD FRCS(C),FAANS, FACS,FCNS
Shilpi Pradhan, MD, DipABLM
Cheryl Mothes, MSN, MBA, PhD