Fundraising 

The Association raises funds to donate to a wide range of important hospital projects and causes.

Money is raised on an ongoing basis through:

• sales of the nursing history book, A Profession’s Pathway
• sales of St Vincent’s tea towels – these are at $13 each or two for $23 (inc. postage) and can be purchased by contacting Helen Lauritz by emailing helenlauritz@optusnet.com.au or phoning (03) 9802 2507
• sausage sizzles held at the hospital throughout the year
• the annual luncheon and associated raffles.

The Association has made the following donations over the last five years:

• $10,000 for carpet installed at the Sister Francesca Healy Cottage in Fitzroy, where homeless people are able to stay and rest after discharge from hospital. 
• $10,000 to the St Vincent's Department of Addiction Medicine
• $20,000 to the new St Vincent's Cancer Centre
• $2,000 to The St Vincent de Paul Disaster Appeal (in memory of a St Vincent's graduate Mark Butler (1992) who perished in the bushfires)
• Interplast – a volunteer surgical team traveling to third world countries to operate on people with cleft palates, etc
• $2,000 to the St Vincent's Director of Mission's Discretionary fund – funds are needed for things such as assisting a single mother to pay for the funeral of her stillborn baby

Plans are currently underway to offer a bursary/scholarship to a nursing student studying at St Vincent’s.

On the children's ward, circa 1975