Every winter, Galens members don red ponchos, grab metal buckets, and take to the streets of greater Ann Arbor to collect monetary donations for the children of Washtenaw County as part of an annual event called Tag Days.

Held on the first weekend of December since 1927, Tag Days has become an important Ann Arbor tradition and plays a key role in Galens' mission to support local children's charities. Every year, Galens members raise tens of thousands of dollars during Tag Days, with 100% of proceeds going directly to local charities that provide educational resources, medical care, and special needs assistance to children in Washtenaw County.

Galens Medical Society is a service organization of the Medical School of the University of Michigan Galens and serves to promote medical education and scholarship to provide loans, scholarships, and grants-in-aid for the assistance of worthy and deserving medical students, as well as to engage in charitable activities of a public nature, which includes our favorite event -- TAG DAYS.