Corporate sponsors support United Way SA through various means. They might make financial contributions or goods/services in-kind to United Way SA to distribute to local charities or fund a specific project in their community. Corporate Sponsors may support a United Way event such as Splash!, Raffles, official functions, guest speakers and other activities as they arise. Corporate Sponsors usually offer Workplace Giving through United Way SA to their employees and match the donations dollar for dollar. They are:
Platinum Sponsors
Corporate Citizens
Sponsors
Workplace
Giving Partnerships
Introducing Workplace Giving as a business initiative provides a range of
benefits for companies. Not only do employees benefit from all the advantages
of charitable contributions through their payroll, there are business incentives
as well. Taking ownership of an employee selected community project, working
together to raise a target amount for a charity of choice, undertaking community
volunteering and participating in community care week activities can increase
staff morale, forge better relationships between management and staff and
provide a sense of community responsibility and satisfaction for both the
staff and the company. Good staff morale and positive management/staff relationships
can improve productivity and ultimately increase the social and market value
of a company.
Community investment builds healthy communities and a healthy local employee
resource.
United Way Workplace Giving Partners are:
Australian Central Credit UnionAvery
Dennison
City of Salisbury
City of Playford
Colliers International
David Jones
Department of Education and Children's Services
Department of Human Services
Exide Technologies
Frucor
Fuji Xerox
Gawler Health Service
Gawler Mental Health Service
Levi Strauss (Aust) Pty Ltd
Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications
Mercer Human Resource Pty Ltd
North Western Adelaide Health Service
South Australia Police
Town of Gawler
Zurich Financial Services
BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS
United Way is a holistic, non sectarian organisation that can be likened to
a One Stop shop for charities. For all those businesses that have experienced
the frustration and time lost in dealing with the never-ending requests for
donations or assistance, United Way is the answer.
Benefits that United Way can bring to businesses include:
Assurance of an efficient and effective use and distribution of their donation,
no matter how big or how small.
Eliminate the risks of being seen as giving preference to any single charity
and suffer potential business loss or damage to reputation
Choose to provide support to a specific sector of charities, in line with
their business or marketing requirements.
Managing
philanthropic funds
Setting an example of good corporate citizenship
Increasing corporate reputation
Increasing preferred employer status
Facilitating corporate giving and community care programs
Building staff moral and relationships through corporate volunteering opportunities
Gain a national and international profile through their association with United
Way
By
supporting United Way businesses can:
Fulfill their social and community obligations, and at the same time cut out
all unnecessary work in dealing with requests, including deciding how and
what to give
Provide support to a large cross section of charities
