A new and ambitious fundraising campaign has been launched by the Northern Lights Foundation to support eight new projects planned for the regional health centre.
Organizers are calling it “The Gratitude Campaign” to recognize the overwhelming theme they heard from donors and community members: people are grateful to have access to health care in our community.
Originally, the foundation was working with the province to find out how feasible it would be to raise $7M for upgrades to minimally invasive surgical suites at the centre.
After speaking with stakeholders and longer-term donors the foundation went back to Alberta Health Services to find out what other priorities for upgrades were on the radar.
AHS came back with eight items and so now the goal is to rasise money for each of those priorities, all of which affect the welfare of the patients at the health centre and their families.
The eight projects are Minimally Invasive Surgical Suites, the Multi-purpose Clinic, Palliative Care, Community Clinics, Health Centre Lobby, the Healthy Schools Initiative, Continuing Care and the Early Investments Project.
The campaign is aiming to raise $16 million total and already just over $6 million has been raised from individual and corporate donors.
“The Gratitude Campaign” was launched at the Spring Fling Gala Saturday night, which this year raised a net total of $175,000 in support of the Northern Lights Health Foundation.
