Closed Grant Opportunity View - GO6831

The purpose of the grant opportunity is to provide funding to the Trustee for Mater Foundation through the Channel Nine Brisbane Telethon 2024 to support the health and wellbeing of sick and premature babies in Queensland.

The Channel Nine Brisbane Telethon will be held on 6 April 2024 and will raise funds to support Mater Little Miracles. Funds raised will support medical research, medical equipment and specialist care for very ill or premature babies at the Mater Mothers’ Hospitals’ Neonatal Critical Care Unit in South Brisbane. 

The grant opportunity contributes to the achievement of Program 1.5- Preventive Health and Chronic Disease Support, Public Health and Chronic Disease Program. 

The objectives of the grant are to:

• fund medical research into new treatments for sick and premature babies.
• support the provision of specialist care and equipment for very ill and premature babies through the Mater Mothers’ Hospitals’ Neonatal Critical Care Unit.
• reduce the number of lifelong and life-limiting disabilities that can develop due to pre-term births.
• improve children’s health and wellbeing outcomes in Queensland.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

To be eligible, you must be the listed organisation and have received an invitation to participate from the department.

• The Trustee for Mater Foundation – ABN 96 723 184 640

The eligible organisation was determined to be suitable to participate in this grant opportunity because it has been assessed to have: 

• capability to deliver the grant activities in Queensland.
• existing infrastructure and relationships to support project activities.
• experience and capability to deliver the grant objectives and outcomes.
• demonstrated value for money to deliver outcomes in the current market.
• relevant specialised expertise and stakeholder relationships specific to the needs of the grant opportunity. 

The Trustee for Mater Foundation is a community-based fundraising organisation that supports the work of Mater Health, Mater Education and Mater Research. It raises funds through a wide range of programs to help support Mater’s provision of exceptional care, education and investment in world-leading medical research. 

• Mater Mothers’ Hospitals is Australia’s largest and most experienced maternity service provider, delivering more than 12,000 babies every year. Every year, more than 2,000 seriously ill and premature babies come to Mater Mothers’ Hospitals’ Neonatal Critical Care Unit at South Brisbane to receive around the clock specialist life-saving care. 
• Mater Research is a recognised leader in medical research. One of its key focus areas, Mother and Baby, includes research on improving clinical management of pregnancy complications, advancing the care and outcomes for sick neonates, and studying the relationship between fetal development, early life experience and lifelong health.

$2,000,000.00

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