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Sponsorships - KJ McPherson Education & Research Foundation

The Foundation is pleased to offer you the opportunity to become a Foundation Sponsor or donor. Your sponsorship will contribute to the important work undertaken by the recipients of the Foundations’ research and professional development grants program and provide significant benefit to the patients and communities serviced by Queensland Ambulance Service. Your financial support is tax deductible.

The Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1987 by members of the QATB and the McPherson family as a memorial to Kenneth James (Jim) McPherson, a paramedic who lost his life in the line of duty. Originally set up as a Trust to fund skills competitions the organisation made the transition to a Foundation to better support the growing skills and professional base of paramedics.

The Foundation was established to provide Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) personnel with seeding grants to conduct research and engage in professional development opportunities. The key objective of the Foundation and the purpose of the awards is to improve patient care through research and development projects. Professor Major General John Pearn is the Foundation Patron.

Foundation activities
Each year, the Foundation hosts an annual Patron’s Day which includes an all day Clinical Symposium followed by a Gala Dinner.  The Symposium contributes to the clinical knowledge and experience for paramedics as a forum of information sharing and professional development.  The Gala Dinner is an important formal event promoting the Foundation and its research contribution.  At this event the Foundation Patron will announce the recipients of the major grant and annual awards.
You can financially support the Foundation in the following ways:

  1. Foundation Partner - $20,000 to 60,000 pa for 5 yrs;
  2. Grant Sponsors - $4,000 to $19,000 pa for 5 yrs;
  3. Foundation Sponsor - $1,000 to $3,500 pa;
  4. Friend of the Foundation – making a tax deductible donation of less than $1,000.

Businesses or organisations are invited to sponsor the Foundation over three years.  To secure this sponsorship the Foundation is seeking a funding commitment at various levels adjusted annually for CPI.

Acceptance of a partnership arrangement with the Kenneth James McPherson Education and Research Foundation means that your organisation and KJM would establish a strong partnership relationship.  The Foundation would be happy to discuss the sponsorship benefits and leveraging opportunities this would afford your company.

In this way businesses and the Foundation will develop ongoing relationships with valuable mutual benefits which will assist in improving ambulance patient care.

For further discussions on how to progress this proposal, please contact Terry Beitz (Secretary) on 3247 8657 or tbeitz@emergency.qld.gov.au .


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Last updated 23 June 2008