Children's Health Research Institute

CHILDREN’S HEALTH FOUNDATION –
PROUD SUPPORTER OF CHILDREN’S HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Children’s Health Foundation helped establish Children’s Health Research Institute in 1987 with a shared goal of developing CHRI into a world class research facility striving to determine the causes, cures and prevention of childhood diseases.

Since then, Children’s Health Foundation has contributed over $15.5 M supporting those goals. From 2000 to 2003 alone, CHF contributed $3.9 M to assist in the relocation of CHRI into its new labs within Lawson Health Research Institute at the Victoria Research Laboratories adjacent to Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario.

Children’s Health Foundation has been raising money for Children’s for nearly a century.

Children’s Health Foundation is the primary fundraising organization for Children’s Health Research Institute and Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre, and is dedicated to raising and granting funds to support specialized health care and research for children and youth – now and in the future.

Money is raised annually through a variety of fund raising programs, including Change Bandits for Children’s, Radiothon for Children’s, local community events, golf tournaments, service club support, Children’s Miracle Network sponsor programs, direct marketing initiatives, and personal and business support.

In addition to their annual research funding covering the five main program areas, Children’s Health Foundation is also supporting four new specialized research initiatives:

1. Epigenetics

2. Personalized Paediatric Medicine

3. Quality of Life

4. Childhood Obesity (a joint research and hospital initiative)

Children’s Health Foundation is also a member of Children’s Miracle Network, an international non-profit organization dedicated to helping children by raising funds for 170 children’s Hospitals across North America.