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When you make a donation to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, you’re making a life-changing difference for Stollery kids and their families by supporting the Hospital’s most urgent needs and long-term priorities. Learn how your gifts are making a difference at the Hospital below.

'Bear Hunt': Healing and hope through the arts
'Bear Hunt': Healing and hope through the arts

Thanks to donations by Darren Durstling and Doug Udell, along with funding support from the Awasisak Indigenous Health Program, Dean Drever's 'Bear Hunt' is now on display at the Stollery Children's Hospital.

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Building bridges of cultural inclusion: ‘Portrait Series’
Building bridges of cultural inclusion: ‘Portrait Series’

The installation of Indigenous artist Lauren Crazybull's 'Portrait Series" in a high traffic corridor at the U of A Hospital provides representation and connection for those who visit the Stollery.

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Spreading the lemony love
Spreading the lemony love

In recognition of Simply Supper’s Lemonade Stand Day raising more than $2 million since 2014, the newly renovated family room at the Stollery’s Phillip C. Etches Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital will now be known as the Simply Supper’s Lemon Love Bear’s Den.

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Lacing up in support of the Stollery
Lacing up in support of the Stollery

The 14th Annual Stollery Family Day Classic, powered by ENMAX, has scored more than $574,000 in gross revenue to support world-class care at the Stollery Children’s Hospital.  

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Pediatric Dentistry Outreach Program: transforming lives through smiles
Pediatric Dentistry Outreach Program: transforming lives through smiles

Thanks to the partnership between the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Mike Petryk School of Dentistry at the University of Alberta, hundreds of kids receive essential oral care they need each year, for free.

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The research behind consistent and child-appropriate testing for asthma
The research behind consistent and child-appropriate testing for asthma

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children, affecting nearly 850,000 Canadian children under the age of 14. Thanks to research supported by the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation through WCHRI, researchers are exploring ways to more accurately diagnose asthma in children.

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From incompatible to compatible with Dr. Lori West
From incompatible to compatible with Dr. Lori West

Thanks to funding received from WCHRI and the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, Dr. West’s team is well on their way to launching a new diagnostic assay to measure ABO antibodies.

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Stollery care for the tiniest of patients
Stollery care for the tiniest of patients

Thanks to your generosity, we can purchase state-of-the-art equipment such as a fetal echo ultrasound machine for the Stollery Children’s Hospital’s Fetal & Neonatal Cardiology Program at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

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