Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Victoria
The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Melbourne was established in 1989 and has raised more than $329 million to fund clinical, research and teaching excellence at The Royal Children’s Hospital.
The Foundation raises funds through individual giving, corporate partnerships, events, major gifts, bequests, philanthropic grants and endowments. The annual Good Friday Appeal is also distributed to the hospital through the RCH Foundation.
Donated funds are used to purchase state-of-the-art medical equipment, fund medical research programs, scholarships for medical and allied health professionals and capital projects at the Royal Children’s Hospital.
Over the course of a year, the Royal Children’s Hospital will admit 32,000 inpatients, assess 58,000 children in the Emergency Department and undertake 215,000 occasions of service through various outpatient clinics and services.
A brand new Royal Children’s Hospital is currently being built on a site adjacent to the current hospital and is due to open late 2011.
