The Australian Charities Fund Operations Limited

ACF is dedicated to promoting engaged employee giving as the most effective way to drive social impact in the workplace. Workplace (payroll) giving is the most efficient and low-cost fundraising channel for charities. It, together with workplace fundraising and volunteering provides sustainable support and grows capacity for charities. 

Our promotion and support of employee giving benefits all charities, large and small, which no one charity can do alone. 

The Australian Charities Fund:

• has an established track record and extensive networks. We have established over 100 employee giving programs since 2003 and facilitated over $75 million dollars being donated to community organisations
• focuses on driving participation rates and increasing overall impact of programs we facilitate. This leads generally to higher participation rates and average donations in ACF facilitated programs than in other employee giving programs
• has expertise and extensive experience in designing and helping to build best practice employee giving programs. We add further value by sharing best practice techniques, benchmarking the programs and advising on communicating program outcomes
• encourages employer partners to match their employees' contributions. 70% of programs facilitated by ACF are matched, which doubles the contributions to charities
• leads the sector in conducting cutting edge research resulting in significant direct benefits to all its partners and the sector generally
• raises awareness among employers of engaged employee giving and its benefits
• lobbies government for increased support of employee giving
• provides charity partners with opportunities for knowledge sharing, development and training, and networking
• promotes and fosters integrated and engaged employee giving beyond payroll contributions to include promotional events, workplace fundraising, volunteering and in-kind support.

By becoming an ACF partner, charities are committing to being part of the movement to grow funds and other support for the third sector, from which all charities can benefit.

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