What is corporate giving?
Each of World Vision’s Corporate Giving programs addresses poverty and injustice – in our country and around the world.
Government Matching Projects
Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) and the Australian Government’s International Development Agency (AusAID) regularly become partners in the funding of international development projects. To apply for funding for a Government Matching Project, World Vision submits a proposal to AusAID. When it’s approved, AusAID provides 75% of the program funding and World Vision raises the rest.
World Vision has around 50 to 60 Government Matching projects approved each year. The scope of these programs can include health, HIV and AIDS, education, developing livelihoods, water and sanitation, and food security. Projects vary according to ANCP approvals.
Indigenous Programs
World Vision’s Indigenous Programs partner with Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Armadale and Sydney to help build healthier communities, working in the areas of capacity building, youth, health, social enterprise, and governance and leadership.
We combine our commitment to long-term change with flexible program design, ensuring that projects respond to the ever-evolving needs of Indigenous communities. A comprehensive overview of how World Visions works with Indigenous Australia is covered in the Issues area of this site.
Micro Enterprise Development
World Vision's Micro Finance Programs fund micro-enterprise development that can help establish community banks in the world’s poorest communities. Approximately $10,000 will underwrite the cost of a new community bank, positively impacting dozens of families and creating new jobs in that community. A community bank provides poor communities with access to credit by pooling the small loans of approximately 30 to 60 clients. The group cross-guarantees each member’s loan, which is typically A$70 to A$700. Members also receive business training in a supportive group setting.
Macquarie Graduate School of Management Programs
Macquarie Graduate School of Management calls on its alumni, students, faculty, staff and neighbouring organisations to help support World Vision’s Yawar Functional Literacy Project in Papua New Guinea.
World Vision collaborates with other local literacy projects to improve functional literacy in Tok Pisin, which is widely spoken in local business, administration and health promotion.
Volunteer trainers come from some 30 communities. Once trained, and with support from a Community Literacy Committee and World Vision staff, the trainers teach literacy in village classes of approximately 20 participants. Special attention is paid to the different learning needs of children, and those with vision and hearing impairments.
Why contribute to our corporate giving?
The support shown to World Vision by corporate Australia enables us to give hope to millions. We are greatly indebted to the many Australian businesses and individuals who continue to support our work in Australia and around the world. World Vision has many successful relationships with top Australian corporates and philanthropists, using proven programs and strategies that have been designed to fit giving objectives and achieve maximum results.
Who is helped by our Corporate Giving programs?At any one time, World Vision’s Corporate Giving programs are contributing to projects and operations all over the world, assisting some of the world’s poorest communities. The individuals and communities our programs are currently helping include:
- disadvantaged Indigenous Australians
- small businesses in the world’s poorest countries
- illiterate women and youth in Papua New Guinea
How you can help
Your contribution to Corporate Giving greatly assists our work to end poverty and injustice.
For more information about how your organisation can form a partnership with World Vision, please visit our
Corporate Relations page.