Daily Bread
They don't want their business to grow...but food banks see more families presenting every month needing basic food supplies to get through the week. Bread company Goodman Fielder took the challenge up , lifted manufacturing numbers and began delivering their freshest and finest bread to food banks that cover the country.
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Umm ... my mate will sign that ....
When parents can't read it means they can't help their kids with their homework, read bus timetables or medicine instructions easily. Targeting areas where literacy level are low Fairfax and New Zealand Kindergartens use a three tiered approach to improve child literacy amongst pre-schoolers across New Zealand.
An inspiring "Have you read to your child today" advertising campaign, supported by new books being gifted to children and book banks being established to recycle good books work in unison to lift literacy levels in the home.
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See my world
Changing perceptions of the disabled from their disability to their ability - deserves high praise.
Art Awards that focus on achieving a single goal: to give intellectually disabled artists a means of communicating and expressing their extraordinary talents are a great start.
NZ Telecom partnered with IHC to showcase this art in some of NZs most prestigious art galleries. The Artworks start a conversation about unique perspectives.
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A buck on your power bill ....
One in three New Zealanders is affected by cancer in their lifetime. A power company made it easy for its customers to make the smallest of donations every month - as little as a dollar- and it added up. The Genesis Oncology fund has injected $4 million of new funding into cancer research and professional education projects.
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Helping 125 charities at once...
We all know there are charities who don't have the resources to build a website So a leading insurer Sovereign - created a site that can profile them all - giving visibility, a voice and contact point to over 125 NZ based children's charities -the site Sovereign Sunshine could be the beginning of sector support .....
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Thinking ahead...
Too many young die on roads ..so what better advocates then than 2000 high school students whose role is spread the word on safe road behaviour to other teenagers.
With the support of another non profit New Zealand's Automotive Association (AA) SADD prepares young drivers to think ahead ....so they don't consider combining drinking with driving...or getting into cars with unsafe drivers behind the wheel.
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Kids arriving at school ....hungry
School principals were vocal about kids arriving at school hungry resulting in cranky students that can't concentrate or learn. What better response than a dairy company Fonterra and cereal company Sanitarium joining forces , aligning logistics and serving up nearly 800,000 breakfasts a year in schools most affected.
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And in bare feet ...
Take a shoe retailer (No 1 shoes) who fundraises via selling designer jandals - so they can sell 8,000 pairs of shoes at a low price to charity Kids Can Stand Tall - to kids who need them.
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An accidental restaurateur and hero to refugee families
Annie Coates a Burmese immigrant and seven years ago Annie was thrust into a new and unexpected role. Seven years ago she inherited the Golden Lotus, a Thai restaurant in Wellington's Brooklyn, when the owner was forced to return to Thailand for personal reasons. Annie, who had never run a restaurant or a business before, agreed to help her out until the owner returned - which didn't happen/
Since then Annie has run the Golden Lotus because she sees it as an opportunity to train and mentor young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Migrants start out under her watchful eye, learning how to wait on tables, prepare food or work in the kitchen. ..serving some of the best Thai food you'll ever find in a warm family atmosphere restaurant.
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Give me that calf.....
25 years ago an enterprising IHC supporter walked up a farmer's driveway and asked for a calf to auction for the cause - and his legacy is 5,000 farmers donating annually to support over 45,000 people and their families living with intellectual disability in New Zealand.
The business partner PGG Wrightson raise $300 on average each calf..... they've seen people donate more in times in hardship ... currently raising 1 million dollars a year which stays in its the local area.
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Send them packing....
If you've fallen out of love with some of your share portfolio ...send it off to do good.... By logging onto http://www.sharesforgood.org.nz it'll take you 2 minutes to send them packing - to the charity sector ...where they can deliver differently.
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Buy Do Gooders now, email us and order your copies , $12.95 per copy, up to date research, more tips for you to use in the boardroom, and most importantly, inspiring case studies for you to use as examples. ..MORE
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Fairfax media - first books
2006- Fairfax Media First Books programme was launched, over 4,500 children from low decile NZKI kindergartens have received wonderful books to take home and read. Fairfax Media First Books is an excellent tool for giving children a great start to thier literacy, providing them with thier own books. Over the last year the program has grown with many more kindergartens around the country now receiving books each term.
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Goodman Fielder – Daily Bread Program
A first for NZ – a food manufacturer lifting volumes to supply foodbanks with fresh bread daily to meet the demand for food parcels. they researched need with City Missions and Salvation Army then set up a daily delivery donation to foodbanks throughout NZ ensure that every food parcel going to a family in need has fresh bread in thier food parcel.
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Every morning at 8am, 40,000 ZM (91.0 FM) listeners across the country hear Take a Minute...simple but practical ideas on how we can make a social difference...just by taking a minute - an initiative sponsored by Hubbards, created by Robin Hood and enabled by ZM radio. ..MORE
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ibm - KidSmart programme
The KidSmart programme began in 2004, IBM has donated 268 kidSmart units to early educational centres across the whole of New Zealand. Through thier accompanying technology training programme they have taught over 600 teachers. In 2007 an addional 65 KiSmart units will be donated.
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for a new website dedicated to enabling people to volunteer their skills. For nearly a year, Robin Hood has worked with AUT and VODAFONE, looking at the worlds best volunteering websites and then, with huge help from DATACOM, building something better. ..MORE
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