Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity - Largest Single Gift Ever to SickKids
Donation supports SickKids VS Limits Campaign
TORONTO, May 31, 2019 /CNW/ - Media are invited to join the SickKids community in the celebration of the largest single gift ever to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).
Generosity of this magnitude is transformative. Join us in announcing this gift, acknowledging its donor, and celebrating its outcome: the rise of a new SickKids.
Launched in October 2017, the SickKids VS Limits campaign is a five-year, $1.3 billion fundraising campaign, the largest in Canadian health care history. A key element of the campaign involves re-imagining the SickKids campus, including building a new patient care tower on University Avenue.
When: |
Monday, June 3, 2019 |
10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. |
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Remarks will take place in the SickKids Atrium at 10:45 a.m. |
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Photo ops with the lead donor and 50 SickKids patients and siblings will follow on the |
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University Avenue lawn. |
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Where: |
The Hospital for Sick Children |
555 University Ave. (Elizabeth Street entrance) |
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Media: Please meet at the Info Desk in the Atrium. |
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Who: |
Lead donor |
Dr. Ronald Cohn, President and CEO, SickKids |
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Ted Garrard, CEO, SickKids Foundation |
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Katie Taylor, Chair, SickKids Foundation Board of Directors & Co-Chair, Campaign Cabinet |
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Honourable Sabi Marwah, Chair, Board of Trustees at SickKids |
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50 children, SickKids patients and their siblings |
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Tanya Boehm and Mike Ploughman, parents of the late Marlow, a SickKids patient |
SOURCE SickKids Foundation
or to arrange interviews: Sandra Chiovitti, Media Relations, SickKids Foundation, 416.553.4198, [email protected]
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