Advertiser Foundation gives $20m to SA community in 30 years
The Advertiser Foundation is the gift that keeps giving. Hosting exciting events it has raised $20m-plus for charity over 30 years.
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Raising more than $20m for charity since its inception, The Advertiser Foundation is celebrating its 30th anniversary during a record year of giving.
The foundation’s patron of three decades Angela Condous and recently appointed head Dan Demaria welcomed 60 guests to a function at Keith Murdoch House to celebrate its fundraising achievements.
The most recent include the annual Sunday Mail Blanket Appeal – supported by The Advertiser Foundation – which raised a record $75,000.
Another initiative, the foundation’s Help Our Ukraine Refugees drive raised more than $180,000 for displaced Ukrainians in SA. It won the best state/national campaign at this month’s News Corp News Awards.
Mrs Condous was completing a six-year term as the lady mayoress of Adelaide in the early 1990s when she was invited to be the foundation’s patron by News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch and the late Peter Wylie, who was Advertiser Newspapers managing director at the time.
In the years that followed she presided over hundreds of events raising funds for more than 350 charities that support the SA community. Causes included childhood cancer research and assisting homeless and disadvantaged people.
Every event was sold out and all proceeds raised from each were donated directly to charity.
Mrs Condous also enlisted the help of celebrities such as Barry Humphries, Dudley Moore, Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Dr Richard Harris.
“An evening with former US President Bill Clinton sold out with 800 guests at $1000 per head,” Mrs Condous, who is now the foundation’s honorary patron, said.
Guests at the 30-year celebration included Penny Fowler, chairman of the Herald & Weekly Times and News Corp Australia’s community ambassador, who described Mrs Condous as “the heart and soul of the foundation”.
Other guests included The Advertiser Foundation chairman Melvin Mansell, Premier Peter Malinauskas and Department of the Premier and Cabinet chief executive Damien Walker.
Mr Demaria described his new position as an honour, adding: “$20 million raised over the past 30 years is a phenomenal amount and I’m looking forward to building on this.”
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