Six years ago, Kate Rootsey was hoping for a life saving lung transplant. This year, Kate and her husband hoped their tiny premature baby would make it out of intensive care. Their most precious moments were the few minutes a day they were allowed to cuddle her. Miracle Molly, the first baby born to a Queensland woman after a lung transplant, is now eight months old and hasn’t lost any of the fighting spirit that saw her literally kick her way out into the world. Through medical research, we're creating hope for families like the Rootseys. And we’re creating the…
This year White Ribbon Australia launches its ‘Australia, land of secrets’ campaign. Currently in Australia one woman a week is killed by a current or former partner. It’s shocking, but this is just one tragic part of the story. The ‘Australia, land of secrets’ campaign calls on men, women and the whole community to help uncover some of Australia’s secrets and help stop men’s violence against women. As part of this campaign men and women are sharing their own, personal experiences of this issue and encouraging others to do same. Visit www.uncoversecrets.com.au to read the stories and uncover more
The Geelong Advertiser ran a story about CharityDS.com.au helping Australian charities.
Today the Gold Coast Bulletin ran a story about CharityDOs as a much-needed resource. Many thnaks to the Gold Coast Bulletin for helping spread the word about charity events!
Pictured at the ManUp! Fashion Parade today at the Tattersals Club Brisbane are MC Channel 9 Aislin Kriukelis, ManUp! Founder Jill Costello, and Fashion Designer and ManUp! Ambassador Paul Hunt. What a lovely high tea and fashion parade! ManUp! raises funds to support men living with prostate cancer.
I'm a Champion Donation Appeal Determination won't stop our 400 Aussie champions getting to the inaugural Special Olympics Asia Pacific Games this December...but money might. We need to raise $1.4 million to get them there and we are only halfway there. To help us achieve our fundraising target we have recently launched our first national, multi-platform fundraising and awareness campaign featuring our ambassador Peter Overton and athlete Cameron Fraser, as well as video stories of at least one Special Olympics athlete from every Australian state and territory. Go to the Speical Olympics Website http://www.specialolympics.com.au/ to view their inspiring messages. Please share with…
Fairy Tales for Hope is an arts based fundraiser that was set up last year by clever Melbourne illustrator Tonia Composto in honour of her friend's Sally and Simon Heppleston's stillborn daughter, Hope. Prints are still available for sale through the Stillbirth Foundation Australia, with all funds raised going directly to fund stillbirth research and awareness. The unique fairy tale inspired prints were created in August last year, one for every day of the month of Hope's birthday. This year, Hope would have been five. She was stillborn at 41 weeks after a healthy pregnancy. The prints come in…
The charity Hear and Say launched "Project Possibility" in Brisbane last night to support the development of a state-of-the-art hearing precinct established as a part of Hear and Say's Global Headquarters. A new home for Hear and Say and a new future for deaf children. Pictured at the event are Amanda Spink, Founder & CEO of CharityDOs.com.au, Dr Dimity Dornan AM, Founder & Executive Director of Hear and Say, and Hear and Say supporter Helen L McAllister. Hear and Say http://www.hearandsay.com.au/ is one of the leading paediatric Auditory-Verbal and Implantable Technologies (including cochlear implants) centres in the world, teaching children who are deaf…
Support Little Pinwheel in raising $25k for Bravehearts - http://www.littlepinwheel.com.au/store/pc/home.asp
Starlight Children’s Foundation is one of the charities in the running for support through the eftpos 2013 Giveback Campaign but we need your help to be the chosen charity. For Starlight to be considered as this year’s charity partner with eftpos, we need the category of “Sick kids and their Families” to be the one which attracts the most number of votes. We then need Starlight to be the highest polling charity in this section. We are asking all our wonderful supporters to vote and share the link below, asking friends & family to vote and to pass this request…
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