The Stollery Charitable Foundation just announced they would be donating $750,000 to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation Expansion over the next four years. 

According to the RIH Foundation, the donation comes as part of the SCF's 25th anniversary. The money will go toward the Patient Care Tower’s new trauma inpatient unit.

Though they both passed away, Bob and Shirley Stollery established SCF in Edmonton in 1994 to teach their family the value of giving back to their community and also in recognition of where they came from. SCF focuses on the needs of health, education, poverty alleviation and human rights. This donation from the group is the largest they have ever given. 

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“Our local hospital has been one of the pillars of our Foundation from the get-go,” said Spencer Bryson, Foundation Board Director. “Our first grant to RIH Foundation was in 2001 and we have been pleased to support a wide variety of initiatives there."

Janet Bryson, Bob and Shirley's daughter, explained her parents always wanted to give back, and nothing seemed more fitting than donating to the third busiest hospital in the province.

"This is a very natural partnership,” adds Janet Bryson. “Hospitals that can meet the needs of people where they live are especially important to our family and to our community.”

 “This kind of donation is what my parents hoped for. It’s a once in a lifetime project and if we can contribute now, it will be something that remains in place for many years to come. That kind of philanthropy is what we plan for many more generations of our family.”