St Catherine's Laboure Catholic Primary School Gymea hosts colour run for former pupil Georgia Brown to raise money for Robert Connor Dawes Foundation

October 30, 2023

Originally featured on: https://www.theleader.com.au/story/8393450/bursts-of-colour-for-georgia/#slide=32 The rain stopped just in time for a colourful cause on Friday, October 27, when children...

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Music Therapy Resource Grant Spotlight: Beth

October 25, 2023

16-year-old Beth was diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma brain tumour and was loaned a steel tong drum to help her cope while going through treatment in hospital. It really helped her, but after...

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Ode to Connor: 10 Years On

April 20, 2023

20 April, 2023 Today marks 10 years since Connor physically left us. 10 years-sigh. It feels like 10 minutes and 1000 years and everything in between. In many ways part of me died along with Connor...

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Connor's Erg 2023 - Over $100,000 USD Raised for Kids with Brain Cancer

March 8, 2023

The eighth annual Connor’s Erg Challenge was the biggest yet - raising over $100,000 USD ($150,000 AUD) for kids with brain cancer. Over 500 big-hearted participants from schools and gyms in the...

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Brave Euroa cancer survivor Chelsea Maher’s battle with brain tumour

February 17, 2023

A Euroa seven-year-old is alive thanks to a diagnostic tool for children’s brain cancer. Chelsea Maher, aged seven, is in remission from brain cancer. She loves horses and ponies. For...

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Coles BrainHeart: $419,000 raised for kids with brain cancer

October 14, 2022

We had the great honour of accepting a massive $419,431 cheque from Coles, raised last month during the BrainHeart Campaign. The campaign ran in all 220 Victorian Coles stores, and online from...

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Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day Spotlight: Zoe Stanley

September 21, 2022

Monday, 26 September is the fourth annual Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day. Each year a different tumour type is highlighted, this year is high grade glioma (HGG).  Our beautiful Legacy...

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Connor's Run on Nine News

September 5, 2022

A huge thank you to Jo Hall and Nine News Melbourne for this awesome Connor's Run coverage with Liz Dawes OAM, and our Legacy Ambassadors, the Berry family.

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Shane Warne: Larger than life character, with a big heart

March 24, 2022

A larger than life character, Shane Warne will always be known to us as a great guy with a big heart who loved his kids. Warne passed away suddenly at just 52 years old of a heart attack in Ko...

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DIPG/DMG Collaborative SIOPe Grant Presentation

March 2, 2022

We're a proud Foundational Sponsor of the DIPG/DMG Collaborative.  We invest $10,000 USD annually along with over 20 foundations to help fund vital DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma) research....

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