We are so excited to announce our 2017 Grant Funding round is now open for applications!! In this round we are making available $2 million which adds to the already $3.9 million allocated through our grants program over the last two years.
One of our newly appointed Foundation Governor’s, Isabella DiManno, is continuing her very popular fundraising “purple socks” sports initiative which will take place in 2017 on the weekend of Saturday, 24th and Sunday, 25th June.
On Friday March 24, Des Heffernan organised a golf day at the Mt. Barker-Hahndorf Golf Club in memory of his family friend, Peter Murphy, who lost his battle to Pancreatic Cancer in 2013. Des’ death motivated Peter to do something to help change the statistics by raising money for the Avner Foundation.
On Thursday night we launched a “Council of Governors” for the Foundation. The evening was attended by governors, directors and friends of the Foundation. The governors are people who have helped raise significant funds over the years and through their various activities have brought awareness to this underdog of cancers.
Anyone who has been involved with Pancreatic Cancer understands its vicious cycle, insufficient awareness and funding means it has fallen way behind in medical research. The lack of research means Pancreatic Cancer is almost always diagnosed when a sufferer is close to death. Almost no survivors means almost no awareness, which is why it receives insufficient funding.
We are so excited to announce that Peter FitzSimons, the author of “Kokoda”, and one of Australia’s biggest selling non-fiction authors of the last 15 years, has come on board as Ambassador for the “Wish You Were Here” team.