Giving Australia: Business Community Involvement Survey, 2005

The aim of this study was to investigate the involvement of the Australian business community in charitable works, donating money, time, goods or sponsorship of community organisations and institutions in exchange for advertising. This is part of a larger "Giving Australia" project initiated by the Prime Minister's Community Business partnership and coordinated by the Australian Council of Social Service in collaboration with the Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management (CACOM) at the University of Technology, Sydney; the Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (CPNS) at the Queensland University of Technology; Roy Morgan Research (RMR); McNair Ingenuity Research, and the Fundraising Institute of Australia (FIA). The Giving Australia: Individual and Household Survey, 2005 (ADA Study No. 01087) is also available as part of this series.

Topics covered include donation types in terms of money, goods and services given to not-for-profit organisations or charities; the estimated value of donations; the main benefits and barriers to the business in making donations; ways in which the business was approached for donations; the business’s awareness of tax concessions for donations; the incentives that the business provides to its employees to make donations; the types and estimated value of resources that the business contributes to community projects; the barriers to the business contributing to community projects; the types, estimated value and barriers to sponsorship arrangements undertaken by the business; and any philanthropic contributions made by the business towards the December 2004 Asian tsunami disaster.

Background variables include the responding business’s number of employees, and total revenue and type of industry during the business’s last financial year.