Fundraise For Us
Find out how you can host or take part in a fundraising event for the Bionics Institute.
Hosting or taking part in a fundraising event or activity is a simple and fun way to raise funds for the Bionics Institute’s life-changing research while connecting with your local community.
Ways you can fundraise
Whether you take part in an existing challenge, create your own activity or mark an occasion, there are many ways to help us raise essential funds.
Here’s how some of our amazing supporters have raised funds for the Bionics Institute.
Cynthia’s 50km fun run
Cynthia McLarty commemorated her 50th birthday by running an incredible 50km to raise funds for the Bionics Institute’s infant hearing research program. Find out more about Cynthia’s run here.
Suzanne’s open garden
As a cochlear implant recipient, Suzanne shared her appreciation for the Bionics Institute by holding an open garden event to raise funds for the hearing program. Find out more about Suzanne’s open garden here.
How to fundraise for the Bionics Institute
1. Decide on your activity – this could be an existing event you’re joining or a new event you’ve decided to organise.
2. Let us know your fundraising plans by contacting our team using the details below.
3. Set up an online fundraising page through sites such as GiveNow and Facebook
4. Spread the word! Share your fundraising page on social media or use posters to promote your fundraiser.
Get in touch
If you would like to fundraise for the Bionics Institute, please contact our fundraising team using this form.
The Bionics Institute is a world leader in medical device development with a focus on:
Fundraise For Us
Find out how you can host or take part in a fundraising event for the Bionics Institute.
Hosting or taking part in a fundraising event or activity is a simple and fun way to raise funds for the Bionics Institute’s life-changing research while connecting with your local community.
Ways you can fundraise
Whether you take part in an existing challenge, create your own activity or mark an occasion, there are many ways to help us raise essential funds.
Here’s how some of our amazing supporters have raised funds for the Bionics Institute.
Cynthia’s 50km fun run
Cynthia McLarty commemorated her 50th birthday by running an incredible 50km to raise funds for the Bionics Institute’s infant hearing research program. Find out more about Cynthia’s run here.
Suzanne’s open garden
As a cochlear implant recipient, Suzanne shared her appreciation for the Bionics Institute by holding an open garden event to raise funds for the hearing program. Find out more about Suzanne’s open garden here.
How to fundraise for the Bionics Institute
1. Decide on your activity – this could be an existing event you’re joining or a new event you’ve decided to organise.
2. Let us know your fundraising plans by contacting our team using the details below.
3. Set up an online fundraising page through sites such as GiveNow and Facebook
4. Spread the word! Share your fundraising page on social media or use posters to promote your fundraiser.
Get in touch
If you would like to fundraise for the Bionics Institute, please contact our fundraising team using this form.
The Bionics Institute is a world leader in medical device development with a focus on:
Cynthia McLarty recently hosted a garden party fundraiser and raised an incredible $10K to help speed us groundbreaking Bionics Institute reaseach.
“What an incredible day it was, made possible by all the people that came and supported the event and the donors that were so generous.
I have been forever grateful to the Bionics institute from that miracle day, 24 years ago, when my son Sam heard sound for the first time. A moment I will never forget.” – Cynthia
Hosting the Garden party was a small way of giving back to an organisation that has changed so many lives around the world, and will continue to do so. Cynthia McLarty
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Fundraise For Us
Find out how you can host or take part in a fundraising event for the Bionics Institute.
Hosting or taking part in a fundraising event or activity is a simple and fun way to raise funds for the Bionics Institute’s life-changing research while connecting with your local community.
Corporate Giving
Highlighting a company’s social responsibility and impact has also been linked to better reputation and brand.
Corporate giving can come in many forms, including:
• Philanthropic gifts from a Corporate Foundation
• Corporate Partnerships through cash and in-kind sponsorship and brand alignment
• Donation Matching to double your impact and incentivise others to give to a great cause.
Companies can also support their employees through Workplace Giving.
Alternatively, your employees can also Fundraise For Us by organising workplace fundraising activities, such as a corporate fun run or morning tea.
If your company is interested in supporting the Bionics Institute, please contact our fundraising team using this form.
The Bionics Institute is a world leader in medical device development with a focus on:
Fundraise For Us
Find out how you can host or take part in a fundraising event for the Bionics Institute.
Hosting or taking part in a fundraising event or activity is a simple and fun way to raise funds for the Bionics Institute’s life-changing research while connecting with your local community.
Corporate Giving
Highlighting a company’s social responsibility and impact has also been linked to better reputation and brand.
Corporate giving can come in many forms, including:
• Philanthropic gifts from a Corporate Foundation
• Corporate Partnerships through cash and in-kind sponsorship and brand alignment
• Donation Matching to double your impact and incentivise others to give to a great cause.
Companies can also support their employees through Workplace Giving.
Alternatively, your employees can also Fundraise For Us by organising workplace fundraising activities, such as a corporate fun run or morning tea.
If your company is interested in supporting the Bionics Institute, please contact our fundraising team using this form.
The Bionics Institute is a world leader in medical device development with a focus on:
Support Us
By supporting medical device research at the Bionics Institute, you will make a difference to the lives of people around the world for generations to come.
Donate nowYour support will help:
There are many ways that you can become a Bionics Institute supporter:
Regular gifts help us to budget and plan medical research activities well into the future here.
Become a regular giver.
Remembering the Bionics Institute in your Will is a thoughtful and practical way of making a life-changing difference to people’s lives. You can find out more about leaving a gift in your Will here.
To discuss leaving a gift in your Will, please contact Ann Fazakerley by email: [email protected], call +61 3 9667 7500 or complete this form.
Holding or taking part in a fundraising event or activity is a fun way to raise money for life-changing research whilst connecting with your local community. You can get some inspiration for your event here.
To discuss setting up a community fundraiser, please contact our fundraising team using this form.
Giving in tribute is a meaningful and lasting way to celebrate a loved one’s life and honour their memory.
Asking guests to give in celebration of your birthday, wedding or anniversary is a wonderful way to share your passion for medical device research with friends and family.
You can find out more about giving in tribute and celebration here.
To discuss giving donations in memory of a loved family member or friend, or to request donation forms and envelopes, please contact our fundraising team using this form.
Corporate giving is a wonderful way to improve workplace culture and attract and retain quality staff whilst supporting innovative medical research.
Highlighting a company’s social responsibility and impact has also been linked to better reputation and brand.
If your company is interested in supporting the Bionics Institute, please contact our fundraising team using this form.
News and Events
Bionics Institute’s Mica Haneman will be taking part in a triathlon later this year to raise money towards our cochlear implant research.
Mica, an audiology graduate and research assistant with the Bionics Institute’s hearing team was inspired by taking part in our recent Bionics takes on Bogong event and seeing first-hand the difference community funding can make.
“I have the privilege of working with cochlear implant recipients to investigate ways of improving how cochlear implants are programmed.”
“Some people with a cochlear implant still experience many challenges with how sounds and speech are heard.”
“The work the Bionics Institute teams are doing to try and resolve this is so important.”
I’m always looking for a new challenge, so I’m really excited to be working towards a new goal, whilst also raising money towards such a worthwhile cause. Mica Haneman
We’d love to hear your fundraising ideas!
If you’re thinking about setting up a fundraiser for Bionics Institute research, or have any questions about how you can do this, click here to see how you can fundraise for us!
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Support Us
Join Australia’s national goalkeeper and support our Giving Day on 5 March.
Donate nowMackenzie knows what it’s like to live with hearing loss
She didn’t want to believe she needed hearing aids, but looking back she wishes that she got her hearing checked earlier.
“Its changed my life for the better, you know, socially as well. I feel more comfortable in social settings”
Mackenzie has decided to join us in support of the innovative hearing research being done at the Bionics Institute. She hopes to encourage those with hearing impairment, especially young people, and to reduce the stigma surrounding hearing loss.
Mackenzie shares her hearing loss journey
Why support our hearing research?
Hearing loss can be a result of a range of conditions and diseases that affects about 1.5 billion people worldwide. It can give rise to stigma, limited employment options, distress over communication issues, lower social and emotional wellbeing, and problems with speech, cognition and auditory processing.
The Bionics Institute was founded to develop the cochlear implant, a treatment for profound hearing impairment and has an excellent reputation for a wide range of hearing research.
Your gift will help our researchers develop diagnostic tools and revolutionary treatments for infants, adults and the older generation facing the challenge of hearing impairment.
If you or someone you love suffers with hearing impairment, wouldn’t you want to give them the gift of hearing?
Help fund pioneering research
Early-stage research for life-changing devices & treatments like this is made possible by donations from our supporters.
Your support today could turn the seed of an idea into a new treatment in the future.
Give the gift of hearing today.
Investing in innovation to build Australia
The 2024 Bionics Institute Innovation Lecture provides opportunity for the innovation ecosystem to build a shared understanding of the intersection between philanthropy and investment to leverage our nation’s wealth.
Date: Wednesday 29 May
Time: 5.15pm arrival for a 5.45 start (lecture) followed by networking drinks from 7.30pm
Venue: RACV City Club, Melbourne
Cost: Free (by invitation only)
Following the incredible success of the 2022 and 2023 Innovation Lectures, the Bionics Institute 2024 Lecture will focus on bringing med tech leaders together to explore how to catalyse innovation for the benefit of all Australians.
Networking drinks followed the lecture which provided guests with the opportunity to forge partnerships and develop links with like-minded people.
Due to the overwhelming interest in our Innovation Lectures, attendance is by invitation only. You must express your interest in receiving an invitation using the button below.
Lecture speakers and panellists
Keynote speaker
Mr David Williams – Founder, Kidder Williams
Panellists
Dr Megan Baldwin – Founder, CIO and Executive Director, Opthea Limited
Mr Alon Greenspan – Managing Partner, Mind Ventures
Ms Bronwyn Le Grice – CEO and Managing Director, ANDHealth
Mr Stephen Tomisich – Co-Founder and CEO, Trajan Scientific and Medical
Mr David Williams – Founder, Kidder Williams
Partnership opportunities
A partnership with the Bionics Institute 2024 Innovation Lecture will anchor your brand at the heart of innovation in Australia.
Forge wide-reaching connections and drive positive brand sentiment with leaders in the med tech ecosystem through established digital and print channels, as well exclusive on-the-night post-event opportunities.
In 2023, Innovation Lecture content reached more than 7000 people via eDMs and was seen more than 20,000 times on social media, including 4600 impressions of the event post on LinkedIn.
Learn more about the fantastic opportunities provided by the 2024 event in our sponsorship brochure or contact our Marketing Manager Bree Smith for further details.
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To kick off the New Year, AFL player Jordan Ridley is encouraging everyone to get fit in February and help people at the same time with the Couch to Your KM Fitness Challenge.
The challenge is to hit 45km in February in any exercise and raise vital funds for research at the Bionics Institute to help people with hearing loss. Participants who raise significant funds could also go into a draw to win two tickets to the Matildas’ Olympic Qualifier match in Melbourne on 28 February.
Jordan is an Ambassador for the Bionics Institute, which was founded to develop the cochlear implant that has given hearing to nearly a million people. However, one in six Australians still struggle with hearing loss. Read more about Jordan’s story here.
Researchers at the Bionics Institute aim to change that reality with life-changing treatments for people with hearing loss, like Matildas’ goalkeeper, Mackenzie Arnold, our newest ambassador. Mackenzie wears hearing aids and wants to support hearing research and remove the stigma around hearing loss. Read more about Mackenzie’s story here.
About the Couch to Your KM Fitness Challenge
Anyone can register for a solo or team challenge, pick their preferred exercise and hit 45km in the month of February.
That could be running, rowing, cycling or anything active! For more static exercises such as yoga or weights 1 hour of activity equals 5km.
Achieving fitness goals will make you healthier and fundraising for the Bionics Institute will keep you motivated and help people with hearing loss.
To find out more, Google Bionics Institute Couch to Your KM, or go to: https://fundraise.bionicsinstitute.org/event/couch2yourkm/home
About the Bionics Institute
It’s 45 years since the first cochlear implant was first implanted into a patient by Professor Grame Clark, an invention that has given hearing to nearly a million people worldwide.
He founded the Bionics Institute, which is now a world leader in the development of medical devices to test and treat hearing loss, Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic pain and much more.
Our scientists are doing some amazing work to help people with hearing loss.
This includes developing a new hearing test for babies, a drug that could restore hearing nerve cells for people with age-related hearing loss, and a new test to help develop treatments for tinnitus.