Guest Speaker: Grant Carter Taranaki Health Foundation
Introduced by : Wally Garrett
Grant has been recently employed as The Donor Relationship Manager for the Taranaki Health Foundation.
The Foundation funds needed/nice to have equipment not funded by the Government.
A recent example was 22 lift chairs for patient recovery.
Indeed our club donated money to The Foundation for the purchase of an endoscopy unit monitor as our first fund raiser from the Golf Tournament 8 years ago.
The new Project Maunga building under construction has a $300M government funded budget which will require an additional $25 to $30M funded by the Foundation to replace existing equipment (such as CT Scanners) which had been funded mainly by the Foundation in the past because the Government criteria on a per capita basis was insufficient.
This equipment is deemed a priority to attract specialist staff to Taranaki.
Grant indicated that there were many generous corporate sponsors in Taranaki. Various awards are given to donors depending on the amounts donated over 3-4 years
He invites voluntary organisations such as ours to assist in the fundraising.
Des Friedrich thanked Grant and wished him well in the challenge he faces to meet his daunting target in the next 4 years.
