Your support makes a difference
2022 was a year to remember. Brisbane started the year with some challenges related to the pandemic, followed by a flood that resulted in campus closures. Yet despite the challenges, I was humbled by your generosity and support of QUT initiatives.
Thanks to our donors we continue to ensure university education is accessible for all and to advance world-leading research. Read more about how you are making a real impact in our stories.
Thank you for supporting us as we continue to make a real world difference.
Executive Director (Advancement)
2022 impact
78%
of gifts supported students
1,523
LPF scholarships awarded
54%
of donors are alumni
Donor impact
Gift of education keeps on giving
After finishing Year 12, Erica knew that to fulfil her dream of becoming a teacher she would need to move three hours away to study in Brisbane. A Laurie Cowled Learning Potential Fund scholarship helped Erica to realise her dream - and serendipitously meet her husband Bryce.
Improving outcomes for cancer patients
Prostate cancer affects one in seven Australian men. Thanks to the support of donors, our research team is developing targeted theories to actively seek out prostate cancer proteins and kill harmful cells.
Transforming Indigenous eyecare
Many children go through school with undetected vision problems. Through funds raised on QUT Giving Day, donors helped to provide much-needed resources to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children through school-based optometry services.
Creating a culture of change
For QUT bequestor and alumnus Dace gaining an education at QUT was a turning point in her life. Now it's going to be her legacy.
Top five supported projects
Learning Potential Fund
Indigenous Chair in Creative Industries
QUT Law Founders' Scholarship Fund
Staff Emergency Flood Fund
Eyecare for Indigenous children
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2021 impact
1,943
students received a Learning Potential Fund scholarship
880
first-time donors
1,165
alumni donors
16,632
total gifts
Donor impact
Learning Potential Fund: A ray of hope
Adjunct Professor Ray Weekes believes in the power of education.
He joined the Learning Potential Fund committee after hearing the remarkable stories of our scholarship recipients - and how a single scholarship can have a ripple effect on other family members and their life decisions.
Fighting prostate cancer
Prostate cancer affects one in seven Australian men and claims the lives of 3,500 men each year.
A team of our researchers are playing a critical role in reducing these statistics through innovative and life-changing treatments.
More stories
Since 2018, QUT Giving Day has raised more than $3.7 million from 5,480 generous donors to support world-changing education, research, and community projects.
QUT researchers have developed an innovative technology known as 'coral IVF' to scale reef restoration across the globe, including the world heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.
Including a gift in your will is an extraordinary way of creating a life-changing legacy. QUT alumnus Ainslie Davies shares why she's leaving a gift in her will to support future students.
Indigenous Chair in Creative Industries
As a major university, we're helping to realise a meaningful and enduring commitment to the Indigenous community in Australia.
In March 2021, we welcomed international acclaimed playwright, artistic director, proud Quandamooka man and QUT outstanding alumnus Dr Wesley Enoch AM to the position of Indigenous Chair in Creative Industries.
Top five supported projects
Learning Potential Fund
Staff Community Welfare Fund
QUT Law Founders' Scholarship Fund
Indigenous Chair in Creative Industries
Restore the Great Barrier Reef
2020 impact
17,633
total gifts (including single and recurring gifts)
42.5%
of donors were alumni
431
donors gave for the first time
342
students helped through the Emergency Student Fund
Donor impact
Supporting our students
Thanks to the generosity of the QUT community, we helped 342 students continue with their studies in 2020, despite the significant disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Saving our koalas
With the 2020 Australian bushfires estimated to have killed or displaced nearly three billion animals, saving koalas and other Australian wildlife requires urgent action. See how QUT donors are helping to save this iconic Australian animal.
Marine geoscientist and Learning Potential Fund recipient Mardi is helping to save the Great Barrier Reef.
Supported by a Law Founders’ scholarship, Raziq is now using his legal qualifications to help others.
A scholarship is helping Sarah fulfil her goal to work with Indigenous communities in health care.
Philanthropy is enabling research that improves the lives of young people affected by myopia.
Supported through her studies by the Learning Potential Fund, Stephanie is now a registered nurse.
An alumnus and regular donor, Jeremy is leaving a gift in his will to support future students.
Looking forward
There are many things I am looking forward to in 2021: my last program as artistic director of Sydney Festival, the idea of spending more time on Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island) and the launch of Australia’s first philanthropic Indigenous Chair in Creative Industries.
This role has been made possible by the outstanding generosity of QUT’s 2014 Outstanding Alumnus, Dr Greg Creed, and I’m enormously excited to commence in this position.
QUT is committed to promoting and celebrating exceptional Indigenous talent in Australia. Together we are supporting vulnerable students, progressing ground-breaking research, and amplifying Indigenous thought leadership.
I very much look forward to sharing news and updates with you as we get closer to realising this vision.
Thank you for supporting all the work we do.
Dr Wesley Enoch AM
Indigenous Chair in Creative Industries
Top five supported projects
Learning Potential Fund
Emergency Student Fund
Save our koalas
Staff Community Welfare Fund
QUT Faculty of Law Founders' Scholarship Fund
2019 impact
20,929
total gifts (including single and recurring gifts)
77%
of donors gave to student scholarships
$1,058,811
largest gift (to the Learning Potential Fund)
17%
of donors were QUT staff
Donor impact
Financial help to students experiencing unexpected hardship
There's plenty to celebrate in the fight against prostate cancer
With donors' help we're aiming for a waste-free world
The Traction program for vulnerable teens has the support of the QUT Staff Community Welfare Fund
Leilani Greene and Ketisha Gill are the first recipients of QUT’s $10,000 Argent Indigenous Nursing Scholarship
The feeling of wellbeing that stems from knowing our actions have helped someone else is the reason we give
How a QUT graduate is helping students succeed
The QUT Extreme Van travels 19,000km each year to provide STEM workshops to students across Queensland.
Our staff in 2019
$225,388
total funds raised through payroll giving
$14,375
donated to QUT Staff Community Welfare Fund
12%
of staff are payroll donors
20
projects supported