{"id":976,"date":"2003-01-08T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=976"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:20:29","slug":"discussion-on-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/discussion-on-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital confirms discussion on Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital confirmed it has been having discussions with an American philanthropic organisation, Atlantic Philanthropies, over a proposed $25 million donation to develop the role of the hospital in improving the health of children in Australia and developing countries in the region.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the hospital said it was an extremely attractive offer from Atlantic Philanthropies which was being actively pursued by the hospital and its research partner the Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>A condition of the donation is that the hospital and the Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute must match the grant with $25 million from other sources.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital is now beginning to explore alternative funding opportunities to raise the $25 million, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Any funding will need to be over and above the existing fundraising activities of the hospital, which are so important in supporting existing services, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<h4>Issued By:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Ken Davis<\/li>\n<li>Manager<\/li>\n<li>Public Affairs<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s and Children&#8217;s Health<\/li>\n<li>Tel; (03)\u00a0 9345 7058<\/li>\n<li>Mobile 0402 117 924<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital confirmed it has been having discussions with an American philanthropic organisation, Atlantic Philanthropies, over a proposed $25 million donation to develop the role of the hospital in improving the health of children in Australia and developing countries in the region. A spokesperson for the hospital said it was an extremely attractive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/discussion-on-grant\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}