Something to SMILE about SMILE (Supporting Medical Innovation for Life Enhancement) Foundation is a groundbreaking charity at the forefront of Australian philanthropy.
Compassionate and creative, SMILE has been established by like-minded business people to generate a perpetual fund to support outstanding Australian medical research into rare childhood diseases and provide financial assistance to affected children and their families. Due to their very rarity, vital research into these diseases often has difficulty gaining funding from government, industry and community sources. SMILE is helping to fill this funding gap. We are ensuring that SMILE has a real impact and makes a lasting difference to the lives of kids with rare diseases by: - providing grants to outstanding Australian medical research which has difficulty gaining funding through the usual sources;
helping families by providing an information and support network as well as financial assistance for treatment, equipment and care; building our corpus of funds to ensure the Foundation can continue its important work for generations to come; and - investing a proportion of our corpus in biotech companies whose research furthers SMILE’s overall vision. All returns will be re-invested in SMILE.
SMILE = Goodwill + Good Science + Good Business
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