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The Kids Research Institute Australia (until 2024 known as Telethon Kids Institute) is an Australian medical research institute focused on the prevention of paediatric disease and the development of improved treatments to improve the health and wellbeing of children.
It raises money for over 100 beneficiaries each year including the Perth Children's Hospital, the Telethon Clinical Research Centre and the Telethon Kids Institute. [2] [3] Channel Seven's Perth Telethon is the highest donating telethon per capita in the world, and since the first Telethon in 1968 has raised over A$650 million in total. [4] [5]
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") ... and the Telethon Kids Institute along with numerous other additional beneficiaries (in 2021, ...
By the mid-1960s, organizers of the telethon chose Labor Day weekend to stage their event, as it was the only time frame made available to hold it. Many, however, expected the Labor Day broadcast would fail, as many people would have traveled out of town and/or be away from their television sets during the holiday weekend; even New York City officials were skeptical that it would succeed ...
Donna Cross is an Australian academic, professor, a child health advocate [1] at the School of Global and Population Health within the University of Western Australia and leader of the Telethon Kids Institute. [2] [3] She was awarded an Order of Australia for her work in children's mental health. [4]
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Children's Miracle Network began as a telethon in 1983. Shannon and Lake conceived the telethon with Schneider and Osmond serving as hosts. The first telethon raised $4.8 million for 22 hospitals. The telethon continued as a major fundraising arm for the organization for many years, and some hospital markets still use it today.
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