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Offer your premises or site for a community group to use
for its meetings/events
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Loan equipment and machinery (and operators if necessary)
to community groups
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Photocopy
newsletters, flyers and other
material for a community group
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Contract a community group or its clients to do some of
your work
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Include a community group’s mail in your company’s mail
outs
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Mentor community groups with financial management,
planning, marketing, public relations, computer technology, etc.
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Make available traineeships to community groups working
with unemployed youth
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Employ older employees who have been retrenched from their
jobs
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Employ a person with a disability who is capable of undertaking work
for your company
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Provide work experience for students from local schools, TAFE and universities
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Join Rotary, Lions and other local clubs which support
communities
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Assist a community group to plan and run a major event
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Advertise a community group’s event in your shop window
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Sponsor a community event such as a festival, display or
annual celebration
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Offer your goods and services at a discount rate to a
community group
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Administer the salaries of employees from a small community
group
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Use your business premises as a collection point for
non-perishable food for a community group which supports people living in
poverty
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Encourage employees to contribute to the food bin
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Allocate the proceeds from the sale of a particular
product (maybe specially labelled) to a community group or cause
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Pass on obsolete equipment (but still in working order) to
community groups
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Offer reduced labour costs for repairing or maintaining a
community group’s equipment and machinery
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Provide scholarships or subsidies to community groups so
that their clients or workers can participate in essential training,
workshops and conferences
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Sponsor disadvantaged children to participate in sporting
activities, camps and school excursions
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Provide in-kind or at reduced prices goods for raffles,
fetes and other fundraising activities
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Provide surplus stock either at reduced cost or no cost to
community groups which may be able to sell it or use it themselves
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Promote a particular community group or cause using your
company’s marketing or media resources
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Employees with particular expertise in management,
financial or legal matters can advise or join community groups' committees
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Construct and maintain a website for a community group
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Use your shop window, office wall, signage, company vehicle
or stationery to highlight a particular community issue or cause
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Provide a commission to a community group which refers
customers to your business
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‘Adopt’ a reserve or an environmentally fragile area and
contribute to or take responsibility for its upkeep
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Provide a storage area for a community group for its
equipment or goods
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Sponsor community or school awards
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Share your business networks with community groups
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Encourage other companies to support their communities
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Use your influence and contacts to advocate with government
or businesses to support a community cause
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Assist a community group with its application for
government or philanthropic trust funding
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Provide a community group with training sessions in
management
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Assist a community group to recruit staff
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Assign an employee for a specified period of time to a
community group to undertake a task or project
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Assist a community group to develop policies and procedures
for its services, activities and projects
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Place a fundraising collection tin,
badges, ribbons, lollies or raffle tickets on your shop counter,
reception area or staff room
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Recycle or re-use as much of your company’s waste as
possible
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Allow your staff to participate as volunteers regularly or
once a year for a community group or cause
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Conduct an in-house fundraising event with proceeds going
to a local community group or cause
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Introduce a voluntary staff salary deduction scheme with
the proceeds going to a community cause
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Provide a small percentage of the sale of your goods and
services for a community group or cause
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Collaborate with other companies to work on community
projects
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Educate your employees about community issues by inviting
an informed representative from a community group to speak about local
issues
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Include the costs of supporting your community in your
company’s budget.
