Engaging with Best Buddies Australia
Sponsoring Best Buddies Australia will allow an your company to partner with a new, exciting and growing organisation dedicated to enhancing the lives of those with an intellectual disability.
To maximise strategic objectives, Best Buddies Australia will work with each Sponsor to design a comprehensive benefits package with a view to a win-win cause related marketing partnership.
There are number of ways that you can partner with Best Buddies Australia:
Payroll Giving – As you’ll be aware, providing a service like Best Buddies involves some costs. A small donation each pay goes a long way to covering the costs for providing training and support to our volunteers, engaging with schools and expanding the program.
Great Mates Program (Sponsor a Chapter) – All High School Chapters are required to hold 4 community events each year. This can be as simple as going to dinner together, visiting the gallery, going to the zoo or having a movie night. By becoming a ‘Great Mate’ you commit to engaging with these young people at these events, by simply ‘going along’. As a sponsor, we ask that you contribute to the ongoing costs of supporting this Chapter. However the most important donation is your time and involvement.
Best Buddies is happy to provide some training for you and/or your staff with regards to what to expect. This will help demystify some of the myths about Intellectual Disability, and provide you with some general rules that should be adopted.
General Support – As Best Buddies is a new organisation, we have many general needs that you may be able to assist with. These range from requiring assistance with our internal review process to helping with a major event later in the year. Currently we are looking to review all of our internal business processes with a view to getting better at what we do. If this interests you, please feel free to contact BBA to discuss further.
Major corporate supporter – There are no major corporate sponsors of intellectual disability services in Australia. This presents a unique opportunity for an organisation to venture into, and ally itself to, exciting new territory by supporting a new not-for-profit organisation. We intend to grow, and invite Corporate Australia to grow with us.
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