News Edition 4, 2010

Prepare to embrace the new financial year with these workplace giving resolutions. Benefaction guaranteed! Giving while you work means donating your time, money or skills to a chosen cause with the support of – or facilitation by – your workplace. You can be an employee or business owner. You can give individually, or on behalf of your organisation, or together with your colleagues as representatives of your workplace.

By signing up as a registered organ and tissue donor, you can save the lives of up to 10 people and significantly improve the lives of many more. In 2009, 247 organ donors gave 799 Australians a new chance in life! Australia enjoys a reputation for successful transplant outcomes, but, disappointingly, it also has one of the lowest donation rates in the developed world.

Spearheaded by Stephanie Alexander, whose cookbook The Cook’s Companion sits in more than 250,000 Australian homes, The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Gardening Foundation team has developed a child-friendly gardening program. The program was developed in response to what the Foundation identified as a serious gap in children’s understanding about where food comes from and which foods are healthy.