What is Feel Good Giving?
Feel Good Giving celebrates the power of our people to make a difference to the community. Through this website you can give your time or money by making a pre-tax donation to charity, volunteer to work on a community project or fundraise with the support of your colleagues and family and friends.
Which Medibank employees can participate in Feel Good Giving?The Feel Good Giving program applies to all permanent employees of Medibank.
Why has Medibank introduced Feel Good Giving?
Feel
Good Giving is part of our commitment to support our people to make a
difference in the community. We know that Medibank’s contribution to the
community is an important part of your health and wellbeing. In addition, employee
research has told us that you want choice when it comes to donating to a
charity. That’s why we’ve partnered with
GoodCompany
to develop this website to make it easy for you to
volunteer, fundraise and donate to the charity of your choice.
What does Medibank want to achieve with Feel Good Giving?
We are committed to being a responsible corporate citizen and strongly believe that we can help drive positive and sustainable changes in our local communities and help our people be the best they can be.
Together we can make a big difference.
For example:
If 100 employees participate in donating $5 per week to a charity –they will give a combined total of $26,000 a year
Each of those employees will receive a charity gift voucher up to the value of $260 from Medibank to donate to a charity of their choice on the website which equates to an additional $26,000
So, in this example, the total contribution to the community would be $52,000.
What’s great about the program?
Feel Good Giving is a one-stop-shop for all your donating, volunteering and fundraising needs.
We have responded to your feedback and introduced an ‘open’ model of donating, which means you can donate to one or more of the thousands of charity projects.
You can research, identify and apply for volunteer opportunities through the Feel Good Giving website which makes it easy to give your time to make a difference.
Best of all Medibank will match your donations up to $1000 per annum.
Who has Medibank partnered with to deliver Feel Good Giving?
Medibank has partnered with GoodCompany to deliver Feel Good Giving.
Founded in 1999, GoodCompany was Australia’s first Skilled Volunteer portal. In 2007 GoodCompany merged with the Karma Currency Foundation. Today, GoodCompany is an exciting hybrid social enterprise that embraces both a non-profit Public Ancillary Fund (PAF) with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status and ‘for purpose’ structures to create greater social outcomes.
GoodCompany now supports over 1,500 of Australia's most respected charities.
Which charities are on Feel Good Giving? How do I add one?
There are more than 1,500 charities listed on Feel Good Giving.
Charities must meet certain criteria to join the program including Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Item 1. You can check to see if a charity is DGR item 1 by searching the Australian Business Register here.
If a charity you’re passionate about is not registered with GoodCompany and they meet the DGR criteria, please let us know if you are willing to champion their cause via advocacy, donations, volunteering or fundraising. Details of the charity can be emailed through to support@goodcompany.org
Please note: It’s free for charities to join
GoodCompany and list volunteering roles. If a charity wishes to register for
donations that is a small annual membership fee of $300 a year (ex GST).