2022 - 2023 highlights An important part of the NORTH Foundation strategy is to raise awareness within the community and within the NSLHD. Patients sharing stories and the growth in grant applications show that we are reaching the right people. Appeals success
This year we launched a new Christmas appeal theme, ‘All we want for Christmas’. Signed by healthcare staff from across the district, the appreciative signatories explained how patients often say thank you by sending thoughtful gifts such as chocolates and flowers. However, the staff highlighted that to help even more of their patients, what they really want is a donation to the NORTH Foundation. The appeal raised $208,000, a 49% increase on the previous Christmas appeal. The 2023 tax appeal raised $575,387 making it our most successful tax appeal yet - a 22% increase on the previous year. Our donors chose to support the ‘area of greatest need’ which means that the funds are directed to wherever they are needed the most. These donations also support our grants program which fund innovative projects lead by our healthcare staff.
Gifts of Gratitude Last year our grateful patient program called Gifts of Gratitude was launched across the NSLHD hospitals. The program aims to acknowledge and promote that our hospitals are there for the community throughout their whole lives, by telling the stories of patients who are thankful for the services they received whilst in their care. The program encourages grateful patients to make a gift of gratitude by making a donation to a nominated department, project or clinician they would like to support, and write a message of thanks to the team that supported them or their family. These messages are gathered by our team, and shared back with clinicians and other staff. We then contact these grateful patients to see if they are interested in sharing their story with our community to help raise further funding for the area they chose to support.
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