30 YEARS
1996
TRANSFORMATIONAL GIFTS FOR LASTING IMPACT
Newborns Need
When the community comes together, extraordinary things happen. The $66 million Newborns Need campaign, led by Calgary Health Foundation, united donors around projects to support local families, including a bold vision: a new 55-bed, leading-edge Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Community generosity contributed $45 million to the new NICU, which was leveraged alongside support from Alberta Health Services and the Government of Alberta to bring the project to life. To push this important project across the finish line, the Taylor Family Foundation contributed an astounding $10 million to the Newborns Need campaign. The Taylor Family Neonatal Intensive Care Unit will have a lasting impact on families and their newborn babies across Southern Alberta. Beyond the Level III NICU, the Newborns Need campaign also raised money for other infrastructure projects, the expansion and development of newborn and family resources, family-centred care initiatives, and clinical research and education.
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Approximately seven per cent of babies born in Calgary require neonatal intensive care. Thanks to the generosity of the Taylor Family Foundation and other donors, our region’s smallest and most vulnerable patients will receive care in a purpose- built space, along with the education and resources to offer families hope during some of their most uncertain moments.
We are thrilled to be a part of this campaign knowing that this contribution will have a meaningful impact for the future of families and their babies throughout Southern Alberta.
— Don Taylor, Taylor Family Foundation
Tatum Gore, NICU graduate
Don & Ruth Taylor
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CALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION
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