“Make sure there is a strong alignment to what you want to achieve and what your potential partner can deliver. Charities, especially smaller ones, deliver community programs in specific ways, and it’s unreasonable to expect them to change how they work for a corporate partner. Also, we would encourage corporates …

“Employees become an advocate for change within their workplace and it provides significant gain for Plan and the business. We are all building a safer and fairer world for all children.”

“The charity I donate to is the Animal Welfare League of Queensland as animals are a pretty important part of my life. They send me an email every month to update me on what my contribution has helped do. You can see that if each and every one of us …

“Our thoughts are with all who have been impacted and our gratitude goes to the emergency service workers and disaster recovery organisations whose tireless efforts of courage and dedication to protect and restore their communities is extraordinary.”

"We established the Toyota Disaster Relief Trust in Australia more than 4 years ago to better plan and manage how we respond to disasters. Outsourcing the administration and investment of the fund to Good2Give allows us to focus on the strategic aspects of our community program."

“We’re excited to have recently entered into a Small Business partnership with Smiling Mind so that we can ensure our SME customers have access to tools and meditations specific to their needs.”

“We’re certainly in the infancy stage of our workplace giving journey but so are most of our fundraising partners. We want to encourage them to do more of it – to tap into their supporters who could be giving through their workplace.”

“At PwC we believe workplace giving donations provide low-cost recurring income for charities, which is vital to enable charities to plan for the medium to long term. We know our partners and staff are very generous so we wanted to support them even further in their giving by providing greater …

"We are really enjoying offering a workplace giving program, and are having some fun with it. We get all the staff together every couple of months to encourage people to give. Being able to support victims of the cyclone in Vanuatu and the earthquake Nepal made so easy using Good2Give’s …

“We would absolutely encourage other businesses to run appeals at times of disaster and emergency. It’s a great way for staff to feel like they are contributing in some way.”

“Workplace giving donors are high value donors giving on average $70 a month, and when you add in company matching, this figure jumps to $120 a month. It’s really important that we thank our workplace givers for these generous donations and keep them informed as to the important work Caritas …

“It’s been scary to see the hardship, but it’s been incredibly rewarding to see the thank you emails coming through and know we’ve been able to support our most hard hit team members right across the Pacific region.”

“While workplace giving donations are welcome and valuable the connection with a business is just as important. We build and nurture partnerships around financial support but also develop meaningful and long term relationships.”

"Timely, dedicated responses and a willingness to listen to our requirements. Clear, straightforward service with dedicated staff that respond quickly and efficiently to requests from clients. The administration associated with our community investment program is enormous. Leaving these tasks to the experts’ means we can concentrate on sharing the positive …

“We took a strategic approach to our Community Grants program, engaging key stakeholders from our business to ensure we deliver a program that resonates with the diverse communities in which we operate. Core to our program is ensuring that we transfer funds to our grant winners in the most seamless …