Media Backgrounder

London Health Sciences Foundation (LHSF) is a registered charity with the Canadian Revenue Agency's Charities Directorate. We are committed to ethical and transparent fundraising, and have met the standards required to become a Better Business Bureau Accredited Charity and a member of Imagine Canada.

We strengthen London Health Sciences Centre's (LHSC) ability to provide the highest quality health care for patients in Southwestern Ontario and beyond, by offering donors the opportunity to support discovery and innovation at the hospital.

We have raised more than $127 million in the last five years for health care education and training initiatives, leading-edge equipment, new technology and new facilities that enhance patient care, as well as the development of innovative treatments and research discoveries that advance health care.

We share the same logo with LHSC which, is based on the partial double helix DNA strand. It reflects the human and scientific elements of LHSC's mission in patient care, research and teaching excellence.

While our foundation shares the same logo with LHSC, and we work closely with the hospital to support their mission we are, in fact, a separate organization. We act as a trustee on behalf of our donors and are governed by our own, independent Board of Directors, comprised of 29 volunteers who represent the community. We employ a staff of 52, combined with hundreds of volunteers who support foundation events, committees and administration...

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