Raffle beneficiaries

The QUT Business Leaders' Forum is pleased to provide a platform for Australian charities and nonprofit organisations to raise crucial funds.

Raffle beneficiaries are nominated by primary sponsors of the forum.

2013

Royal Flying Doctor Service

• 25 March 2013
• Total funds raised: $4,644.50
• Nominated by Ergon Energy

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is dedicated to providing vital health care to anyone travelling, working or living in Australia. The iconic RFDS's emergency retrieval service operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The RFDS also provides regular transfers of patients to interstate hospitals for life-saving surgery, and delivers a broad range of essential everyday health care to rural and remote communities.

Hummingbird House

• 21 February 2013
• Total funds raised: $5,503
• Nominated by QUT Business School

Hummingbird House, the inaugural project of Queensland Kids, will be built as the only specialised 24/7 paediatric palliative care facility in Queensland. Hummingbird House will offer respite and hospice care for families with children affected by terminal illness.  Australia has only two children’s hospices and none are in Queensland. For more information visit www.queenslandkids.org.

2012

White Cloud Foundation

• 23 October 2012
• Total funds raised: $6,186
• Nominated by QUT Business School

Depression affects people of all ages, genders, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. The White Cloud Foundation was created to increase support and service provision in Queensland by building treatment centres that provide day to day access for people living with depression and their families and carers. To find more information or to donate, please visit: www.whitecloudfoundation.org.

Royal Flying Doctor Service

• 21 September 2012
• Total funds raised: $6,280.50
• Nominated by Ergon Energy

Redkite

• 8 May 2012
• Total funds raised $5,870
• Nominated by SAP

Redkite is the only national organisation that provides support to children and young people and their families for the entire cancer journey. Redkite's real and practical support services include financial and educational assistance as well as support in hospitals through social workers and music therapists. Redkite also provides community-based support, including telephone and email counselling, and professionally-facilitated telegroups.

Coast Guard Redcliffe

• 8 March 2012
• Total funds raised: $3,765
• Nominated by Brisbane Airport Corporation

The Redcliffe Coast Guard and her rescue vessels are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with professional volunteer mariners servicing Moreton Bay and its surrounds. When the storms roll in, and the winds start to howl, when fishermen and families are running for home, the Redcliffe Coast Guard will always head out to sea when called to rescue. We never say no.

2011

Redkite

• 16 November 2011
• Total funds raised $5,894.80
• Nominated by SAP

Coast Guard Redcliffe

• 12 September 2011
• Total funds raised $4,101
• Nominated by Brisbane Airport Corporation

Brisbane Youth Service

• 6 July 2011
• Total funds raised: $7,620.20
• Nominated by QUT Business School

Brisbane Youth Service (BYS) is a community-based organisation that works with homeless or at-risk young people aged 12-25 years. Now in its 34th year of operation, BYS provides assistance to young people through the understanding of their circumstances and assisting them in making more positive choices. A comprehensive range of services is offered from meeting basic needs such as food and showers through to intensive personal support.

St Vincent de Paul Society (Queensland)

• 20 June 2011
• Total funds raised: $4,876.85
• Nominated by QUT Business School

The St Vincent de Paul Society (Queensland) believes all children should be given the same chance at a bright and positive future, which starts with education. The Children's Education Fund, established in 1988, equips students from disadvantaged families with the tools to enable them to fully integrate into the school community on an equal basis with their peers.

Royal Flying Doctor Service

• 2 March 2011
• Total funds raised: $4,265
• Nominated by Ergon Energy

2010

The Redcliffe Coast Guard

• 13 October 2010
• Total funds raised: $3,675
• Nominated by Brisbane Airport

Open Minds

• 24 August 2010
• Total funds raised: $3,951
• Nominated by QUT

Open Minds currently supports over 600 men and women throughout South East Queensland with mental illness, intellectual disability or acquired brain injury to live independently and maintain their wellbeing within the community. Open Minds offer lifestyle and residential support programs, planning and mentoring support and assist people to find and sustain suitable employment. Open Minds believes in an inclusive community and the right of people with disability to have the support and access to live a life of choice, fulfilment and contribution.

Royal Flying Doctor Service

• 22 June 2010
• Total funds raised: $4,176
• Nominated by Ergon Energy  

Redkite

• 31 March 2010
• Total funds raised: $4,255
• Nominated by SAP

For over 25 years Redkite has supported children and young people with cancer and their families by providing emotional support, financial assistance and educational services.

2009

St.George Foundation

• 22 October 2009
• Total funds raised: $3,634
• Nominated by St.George

Founded in 1990 with an initial donation of $1 million from St.George Bank, the St.George Foundation is committed to enhancing the lives of Australia's children. The Foundation aims to support programs that give disadvantaged kids and children with disabilities a more secure, comfortable and enriching life. Since its inception, the Foundation has provided over $13 million to fund projects for children with special needs.

Royal Flying Doctor Service

• 4 August 2009
• Total funds raised: $4,025.50
• Nominated by Ergon Energy

The Redcliffe Coast Guard

• 26 May 2009
• Total funds raised: $3,513.50
• Nominated by Brisbane Airport

Second Chance Programme

• 5 March 2009
• Total funds raised: $4,810.25
• Nominated by QUT Business School

Second Chance Programme (SCP) raises money for the hundreds of women in Brisbane who have been made homeless through domestic violence, illness and financial difficulties. SCP has been able to assist with housing more than 150 women in its few years of fundraising, however in today's economic climate we need all the help we can get to place women beyond homelessness.

2008

Royal Flying Doctor Service

• 9 October 2008
• Total funds raised: $10,000
• Nominated by Ergon Energy

Wesley Research Foundation

• 29 July 2008
• Total funds raised: $4,249
• Nominated by Lexus

The Wesley Research Institute is a not-for-profit, leading medical research institute with a commitment to patient care, ethical conduct and quality research that aims for immediate improvement to quality of life through better diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.

The Redcliffe Coast Guard

• 3 June 2008
• Total funds raised: $4,573.10
• Nominated by Brisbane Airport

Melanoma Patients Australia Inc

• 31 March 2008
• Total funds raised: $3,341.95
• Nominated by Moody Brand Advisors

Formed two years ago, MPA is a support network for people with melanoma and their families and now has over 500 members. The organisation provides information on melanoma, its causes and incidence and offers a website, chatroom and public information evenings. MPA is raising funds to establish a part time telephone referral and advocacy service.

Melanoma Patients Australia Inc

Mater Foundation

• 3 March 2008
• Total funds raised: $7,161
• Nominated by QUT Business School

The Mater Foundation, the philanthropic and community arm of the Mater, is helping to bring a new generation of care to life by supporting the new Mater Mothers' Hospital.