OUt Together! Donation Drive

MSPA is excited to announce our 2025 OUT Together donation drive! Proceeds support LGBTQ+ premed and medical students.

 
 

Do you want to support LGBTQIA+ medical students and help them succeed?

AWESOME! So, do we! We are seeking your help so we can all be OUT Together! and continue training LGBTQIA+ folks in healthcare.

Medical Student Pride Alliance (MSPA) is a national organization that aims to provide education and advocacy for LGBTQ+ issues in healthcare, and give a place for LGBTQ+ identifying medical students to unite and collaborate.

Donate to OUT Together!
 

The OUT Together! fundraiser is an annual event hosted by the Medical Student Pride Alliance (MSPA). The goal of this fundraiser is to support LGBTQIA+ medical students and help them succeed in their education and careers.

To coincide with National Coming Out Day this year, our OUT Together! fundraiser will range from October 11th to October 25th.

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving, and we're asking you to join us in supporting the next generation of LGBTQ+ healthcare leaders. Your donation to Out Together will directly impact the lives of LGBTQ+ medical students by:

  • Providing Scholarships: Helping cover tuition costs and other expenses via programs such as our previous microgrant process.

  • Supporting Advocacy Initiatives: The MSPA team has the opportunity to develop new initiatives regularly to further our mission---having an increase in funding allows us to expand on the organization as it currently stands.

  • Creating Socials: This allows chapters to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ medical students in respective cities where students may want to have a community space.

Why Donate?

Here’s what our leaders say MSPA has done for them

 

“MSPA gave me the opportunity to see a career for myself as a transgender physician through mentorship, advocacy training, and an invaluable peer network!”

~Austen Ott | MSPA Alumni, Former Executive Director

”MSPA gave me the opportunity to build a skill set on developing organizations and programming. I had the opportunity to create mentorship programming and structures to help support LGBTQ+ students that I will always be so grateful for having that opportunity.”

~Joseph Rojo | MSPA Alumni , Former Director of Mentorship

 

"MSPA gave me real experience with organizational and leadership skills that I never would have learned in medical school alone.”

~Fae Nova | Director of Financial Affairs

“Especially living in a state where I have to fight daily threats to the lives of queer people in my community, MSPA has given me a goal of something to focus on and stay hopeful for the future."

~Delia Sosa | Executive Director

 

“MSPA offered me an avenue through which to turn my feelings about the world into actionable ways of improving it.”

~Afton Widdershins | Director of Marketing & Design

“MSPA has offered the opportunity to explore how I, as a future family medicine provider, can serve my LGBTQ+ patients, and helped connect with students that have a similar interest.”

~Cheyanne Izon | Director of External Affairs

 

Pre-Med Scholarships:

to help overcome application costs

Why pre-medical students?

  1. Medical school applications can present barriers to LGBTQIA+ students pursuing medical education with and without familial support.

  2. LGBT identifying individuals make up 40% of homeless youth (3).

  3. 1 in 4 teens are forced out of their homes after coming out (3).

  4. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) asks for parental income even in these situations which disproportionately impacts LGBTQIA+ students

  5. The cost of the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) for primary applications to the recommended 16 schools for students is $700 before adding in costs for secondary applications and travel expenses (1,2). The cost of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOMAS) is roughly $900 in costs for primary applications (6).

 

Medical Student Scholarships:

for LGBTQIA+ students to help with tuition and living expenses

Why medical students?

    1. Medical schools often do not have the infrastructure and resources to support LGBTQIA+ students.

    2. 43.5% of LGBTQIA+ students report harassment and discrimination during medical school (4).

    3. Tuition costs are on the rise. The median tuition for the 2019-2020 year was 63k (5).

 

MSPA Chapter Grants:

To ensure all chapters have funds to organize events and activities for their students

Why chapters?

  1. Some of our chapters do not receive support from their institutions or communities due to anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. 

  2. The needs of our chapters are unique and vary depending on their institutions and regions. We want to be able to support our chapters in programming, leadership development, and improving the LGBTQ+ experience as a student and in healthcare.

OUT Together! will take place from October 11 - 25, 2025

Contributions made during OUT! Together, unless specified otherwise, will fund student scholarships and grants mentioned above as well as operating costs for MSPA.