Brain Matters
Stories from the RCD Foundation
This is our message to you...
April 6, 2020
You have been in our thoughts and hearts as together we have careened down this unchartered road that COVID-19 has taken us. Many times during the last few weeks I have been reminded of the 18 months...
2020: The Year of “Clarity of Vision”
January 28, 2020
Happy New Year to you, our valued supporters. This June will mark our seventh year as a Foundation. What began in 2013 as a way to find our way forward after losing Connor at 18 years old to brain...
CEO Liz Dawes named in AFR 100 Women of Influence 2018
September 4, 2018
We're incredibly proud our very own CEO and Founder, Liz Dawes has been named in The Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence 2018. Source: The Australian Financial Review The 100...
United Unicorns for Zoe
September 25, 2017
Meet the brave Geelong family campaigning and fundraising for brain cancer research. In March 2017 five-year-old Zoe Stanley was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), a very rare and...
4 years on - Liz reflecting on Connor
April 20, 2017
April 20, 2017 Four years ago today my beautiful and strong, world at his finger tips, 18 year old son Connor took his last breathe after a brave and philosophical journey with brain cancer. It seems...
Harry the hero: our latest ambassador
February 16, 2017
We are delighted to have Harry join the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation as our newest Ambassador. Harry Dunn is a survivor. He has faced, as a teenager, one of life’s cruellest obstacles: a...
RCD Ambassador Tamsyn off to Rio
July 27, 2016
From competitor to commentator, our ambassador Tamsyn Lewis Manou will be heading to the Rio Games… now just days away! Tamsyn has a long record of success on the athletics track, winning a total...
Hello Mr Vice President Joe Biden
May 2, 2016
Liz had an opportunity to participate in the US's National Brain Tumor Society's 'Race for Hope' today (Sunday 1st May). This event is part of International Brain Cancer Awareness Week activities. US...
Rugby star Sean McMahon joins RCD
March 31, 2016
2016 is off to a great start as we welcome our newest ambassador, Sean McMahon! Born just days apart from Connor, and only 21 years old, Sean has become a star player of the Melbourne Rebels since...