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| Support 500 families to improve their financial knowledge, build a long-term savings habit and save for their children’s education through our Saver Plus program. |
Through our Saver Plus program, ANZ and its community partners the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Berry Street Victoria, The Benevolent Society and The Smith Family, have assisted more than 700 low-income families to develop a long-term savings habit, improve their financial knowledge and save for their children’s education. As part of the program, ANZ provided funds to match more than $800,000 saved by participants. |
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| Provide MoneyMinded facilitator training to 250 financial counsellors and community educators to deliver MoneyMinded workshops to 10,000 people in 2005. |
More than 400 financial counsellors and community educators have been trained to deliver our MoneyMinded financial education program around Australia with 3,500 people attending the workshops. This has been achieved through partnerships with community organisations such as the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Berry Street Victoria, The Smith Family, The Benevolent Society, Mission Australia (WA), Anglicare (SA), Kildonan Child and Family Services (Vic) and the Australian Financial Counselling and Credit Reform Association. |
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| Develop an easy access small loans program to meet the needs of people on low incomes who are currently using ‘payday’ lenders and other fringe credit providers. |
The loans program structure has been developed and we plan to introduce it once we have tested the product to ensure it is robust and sustainable. |
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| Deliver on our commitment to undertake research into Australian financial literacy levels every two years, with the second round of findings to be released mid-August 2005. |
ANZ released its second national survey into Adult Financial Literacy in Australia on 25 November 2005. We extended the deadline to enable us to complete and release additional research into personal debt and financial difficulty. |
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| Achieve a 10% participation rate of employees contributing to ANZ’s Community Giving initiative. |
28% of our Australian staff donated money to 18 community partners through our Community Giving program. The high participation rate was principally achieved through staff donations to the Tsunami relief efforts to support the work of World Vision. Our total contribution via Community Giving was $1.1 million. |
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| Achieve a target of 20,000 hours donated to Australian not-for-profit organisations through our ANZ Volunteers program. |
This year 3,675 or 18% of Australian staff contributed more than 24,000 hours as part of our ANZ Volunteers program. ANZ’s program is among the global leaders. The average corporate volunteering participation rate is 8.5%.*
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| Provide more than $350,000 to local communities through the ANZ Community Fund in the 2005 financial year. |
We achieved our target to contribute $350,000, with our branches providing financial support for over 185 local community projects across Australia. |
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| Provide more than $350,000 in small grants to rural communities, in partnership with the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal, through the Seeds of Renewal program in 2005. |
ANZ and the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal provided 93 grants totalling $358,000 to small rural communities throughout Australia. |
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