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Dear G&M Hospital Foundation
Happy New Year and welcome to the January issue of the G&M Hospital Foundation Newsletter.
Thank you for responding to our urgent plea for support for our annual Tree of Life campaign. Jory Pritchard-Kerr, Executive Director of the Foundation says, "Our patients, friends and neighbours responded with their gifts. Thanks to that outpouring of support, we reached our goal. We are most grateful to everyone in the community for their support!"
Please contact us at foundation@cgmh.on.ca if you want more information on an event or article, or have a suggestion for future issues of the newsletter. We welcome your input!
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Thanks to You, Tree of Life Annual Campaign Achieves Goal!
The Collingwood G&M Hospital Foundation's (www.cgmhf.com) annual Tree of Life Campaign achieved its target this year, thanks to the gifts of donors. $379,000 was raised, $4,000 over the goal of $375,000. All donations for the campaign will go towards the purchase of surgical equipment for the Hospital. To read more, click here.
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95.1 The Peak FM~Hospital Christmas Draw Very Successful!
Thanks to more than forty retail outlets who helped us by selling draw tickets, we sold over 16,000 tickets!
Our supporters not only bought draw tickets, but they also donated a tremendous amount of valuable prizes (worth more than $28,000!).
The G&M Hospital Foundation raised $32,857 through our 30th Annual Peak FM~Hospital Christmas Draw. These funds will go to purchase necessary surgical equipment to keep our Hospital ready to care for our valued patients. For example, our operating room needs 4 pain control pumps and they are valued at $5,000 each. We also need a second set of hip/knee replacement operating instruments; they cost $9,100. So, your gifts will go to purchase equipment our surgical team needs.
Over the past 30 years, our annual Peak FM Hospital Draw coupled with the online auction has raised over $577,000! With no dependable government funding for equipment, you can imagine how much our community and the Hospital appreciates your support.
Thank you once again to the local businesses and residents who generously donate prizes, The Peak FM, our volunteers and our draw ticket purchasers for supporting our community Hospital!
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Skiing to Support the G&M Hospital
Hundreds will grace the Osler Bluff slopes on February 17th to raise funds for the Collingwood G&M Hospital Foundation at the 11th Annual Christie/Cummings Ski Day.
"We have an interest in giving back to the community and a specific interest in supporting the local Hospital," Stephen Christie, Partner of Christie/Cummings notes. "The ski day is an excellent way to help the Hospital financially while having a great time."
Included in your $130 ticket price is breakfast, sponsored by Tim Horton's, lunch in the Orchard Lodge, and après ski sponsored by Swiss Chalet. Also enjoy a chance to try the latest demo skis from the Squire John's demo van. A silent auction and prizes will close out your day of skiing at one of Ontario's best private ski clubs.
Tickets go quickly to this popular event so if register now at www.cgmhf.com.
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Online Auction A Success!
Thanks to you, our online auction raised almost $8,000! We sincerely appreciate your strong support for this Hospital fundraiser.
Supporters bid online through eBay and the funds we raised will help us purchase surgical equipment to ensure we can care for you and your loved ones. Thank you to both our bidders and our donors who made this event such a success!
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So What Do You Do?
Profiling our Foundation Volunteers
Meet Robbie Ross! Robbie is the Chair of the Foundation's Annual Giving Committee. He has been with Annual Giving for about eight years and says the role involves leading monthly meetings and working closely with the other volunteers and staff on the committee. Each of the committee members has a portfolio responsibility for Annual Giving such as the Tree of Life campaign or the Triathlon event. Says Robbie, "We have now streamlined the whole process of dealing with each specific area."
So, what exactly is Annual Giving? Annual giving is when a donor makes a gift to the Foundation every year. Robbie says, "The biggest challenge is for us to increase the number of annual donors, not necessarily the size of the individual gifts. Our long term goal is to broaden our base of donors who support our community Hospital."
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2010 Annual Dinner - Save the Date
Saunders Book Company will once again be supporting the Foundation as Title Sponsor for our 2010 Annual Dinner event on Sunday, May 23rd at Craigleith Ski Club.
Please join us for our 26th Annual Dinner when we welcome another winning speaker, Rudyard Griffiths. Mr. Griffiths has been recognized by The Globe and Mail as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40 and is the author of "Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto". Ticket information will be available in the next issue of our newsletter or you may call our office at 444.8645 for more information.
Click here to hear Rudyard Griffiths
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney
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