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Q: How do I contact WEHI to speak to someone about a donation?

Please contact our friendly fundraising team on (03) 9345 2403 or email us at fundraising@wehi.edu.au with your enquiry.

Q: I don’t want to give online, what other options are there for making a gift?

We have various ways that you can make your gift. To make a credit card donation by phone, please call +61 3 9345 2403 (9am to 5pm AEST). To donate by cheque, please download the donation form. If you would like to make a donation via bank transfer, please call our fundraising team on (03) 9345 2403 or email us at fundraising@wehi.edu.au To request donation envelopes to use at a fundraising event, please contact our fundraising team on (03) 9345 2403 or fundraising@wehi.edu.au. If you are located in the USA, you can donate via the Chapel & York US Foundation, nominating The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research as a recipient. WEHI also accepts donations of shares and you can contact our team directly with your enquiry. Donations to WEHI of $2 or more are fully tax deductible.

Q: I’m located overseas, how can I make a donation?

Our online donation form only accepts gifts from Australia and New Zealand. US supporters can donate via the Chapel & York US Foundation, nominating The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research as a recipient. For all other enquiries, please contact our office.

Q: I have a question about a bequest or estate gift

Please contact our Bequests team directly for a confidential discussion.

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Ways you can support WEHI

Donate online

With your support we will continue to make discoveries and find treatments, ensuring longer, healthier lives for you and your loved ones.

Make a monthly gift

Every gift supports WEHI’s scientists in their quest for discovery.

Include us in your Will

Gifts in Wills of all sizes are a vital source of support for our medical research.

Major philanthropic gifts

Your support is crucial to advancing research to improve the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease.

Fundraise for us

There are many ways you can help raise funds for research.

Gifts in memory

A meaningful way to commemorate your loved one’s life, and provide much-needed support for medical research.

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Bright Futures

By supporting Bright Futures, you’re empowering talented students and fostering the next generation of medical researchers.

Support life-changing medical research

Your donation could lead to the cure that saves someone – maybe someone you love.

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How you can make a difference

At WEHI, we are focused on preventing and curing the diseases that we fear the most. These include incurable cancers, dementia, infectious and autoimmune diseases.

Today, we need your support to help us in a sprint and marathon. A sprint to do the absolute best for those confronted with disease right now. A marathon to solve incurable diseases once and for all.

Discover more about the 50+ disease areas where WEHI is making a difference

Dr Susanne Heinzel, Mr Miles Horton and Professor Phil Hodgkin discussing work in the office

The impact of your support

Our supporters are our partners.

See how generous donors have made recent discoveries possible.

A family photo showing two parents and three young children, together in a forest setting

Above: Julie and Laurence Pavone with their three beloved children

Infinite love breathes life into brain cancer research

After losing Laurie to brain cancer, the Pavone family turned their grief into action, raising vital funds to advance cancer research and offer hope to others.

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Above: Dr Maria Tanzer and Associate Professor Michael Lazarou

Honouring Neil Stanley Haysom

A generous bequest has been instrumental in supporting 17 lab heads at WEHI, each dedicated to diseases and conditions that impact millions worldwide, from Parkinson’s disease and dementia to rare and incurable cancers.

Clare Morgan and Roz Edmonds in WEHI lab looking through a microscope

Frequently asked questions

For all other enquiries please contact our office on (03) 9345 2403 or at fundraising@wehi.edu.au

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How do I contact WEHI to speak to someone about a donation?

I don’t want to give online, what other options are there for making a gift?

I’m located overseas, how can I make a donation?

I have a question about a bequest or estate gift

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