The Benefits of Partnering with MATES:
Alignment with an internationally recognized charitable organisation that is focused on the provision of services to all people within a framework that is focused on quality, continuous improvement, innovation, transparency and accountability.
The Benefits Corporate Partnerships bring to MATES
Corporate Partnership Opportunities
MATES welcomes contact from corporate organisations that may be interested to partner with MATES. Partnership opportunities may include any or all elements of the following:
Corporate Partners must be willing to work towards raising awareness and financial support for MATES.
If your organisation would like to discuss partnership opportunities with MATES, please email [email protected]
Why engage with MATES?
MATES is non-discriminatory. We provide crisis support to all people, including your employees and their families. We are a relevant, unique organisation who meets the needs of the community; and we save lives. We understand the types of issues facing people in both rural and populated communities. Often a helping hand and a little support is all that is needed to connect people with the care, insights and answers that they need.
Workplace Giving
The power to make a real difference in any community is in numbers, so even a small weekly amount donated by a number of employees can go a long way towards helping MATES.
Corporate Volunteering
Volunteering with MATES helps us to continue providing vital community services, while giving your staff the opportunity to give something back to the community. It’s great for staff morale, team building and diversifying skills.
Strategic Partnerships
MATES relies heavily on community support and we know that strategic alignment with international partners can make us truly sustainable. We will work with your organisation to align our brands and values and to achieve partnership objectives to continue to deliver services and raise awareness of both organisations.
With an extensive corporate relations program, MATES will demonstrate time again how it works with the business community to develop successful cause-related marketing strategies that create mutually beneficial relationships that make a difference in the community while meeting your business objectives.
We know that the right partnership will impact and improve the quality of life of your workforce, their families and your stakeholders, which in turn will increase your workplace morale, employee productivity and overall visibility within the community.
We also know that:
You Can Partner Strategically with MATES in the Following Ways:
Corporate Volunteering and Fundraising:
Companies need stable, healthy communities in which to prosper and many recognise that volunteers play a key role in developing and maintain healthy communities.
Many companies are encouraging employees to volunteer and support a cause to help the wider community. Some companies even offer their employees paid leave to undertake community-based work.
Corporate volunteering and fundraising can have a very positive impact on your workplace including:
Volunteering opportunities
Volunteering with MATES assists and supports us in continuing to provide our 24 hour crisis support service. Staff may choose to volunteer regularly or on a needs-basis, assisting MATES with specific campaigns and fundraising events.
Our team will work with you to develop a tailored volunteering program for your staff. Your employees can choose to volunteer as a team or as an individual, locally or internationally.
More information about volunteering can be found by emailing: [email protected]
Raise funds
Workplaces can choose to raise funds for MATES by organising specific events within their workplace. Fundraising events are the perfect opportunity to raise funds and help support MATES services, while at the same time raising awareness of stress management, health and wellbeing in your workplace.
Your workplace might decide to hold a special event for MATES. We can assist with your event by providing ideas, promotional material and supplying you with the necessary information. For example, you might choose to host a charity ball in MATES honour, or facilitate a networking function with your stakeholders with funds directed to MATES.
For further information about fundraising for MATES please view MATES fundraising guidelines on our website. To discuss your corporate volunteering and fundraising options, please contact MATES Fundraising team: Phone: +649 8890800 / Email: [email protected]
Tax Benefits
Workplace giving donations are deducted from pre-tax employee salaries, which mean that individual taxable income is reduced. MATES has Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status through MATES Trust NZ, which means that workplace giving contributions qualify for an immediate tax deduction.
For more information visit the Inland Revenue Department Website.
Workplace Giving
By volunteering your time and skills to MATES you can help connect others with care.
Workplace giving provides individual employees with the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of other people by donating a nominated amount from each pay.
The power to make a real difference in any community is in numbers, so even a small weekly amount donated by a number of employees can go a long way towards helping MATES provide its vital services and programs.
Workplace giving is an incredibly easy, hassle-free way to donate to MATES on a regular basis – and the donations really do make a difference. Low administration costs ensure that the money donated is used where it is needed most.
Funds received through workplace giving helps MATES to...
Approach your CEO - boost your workplace contribution
Some workplace giving partners might choose to further boost the contribution provided by employees by matching the amount dollar-for-dollar at a corporate level. This provides further tax deductions for the employer and means that more funds are raised for MATES. This is of course an optional approach to workplace giving.
Getting started - how workplace giving works:
Setting up workplace giving Fundraising Team is easy with the assistance of MATES. Below, we describe what you need to do and how MATES will help you achieve your giving goals.
Your financial assistance will help grow a MATES Center in your Community and HELP US SAVE LIVES...
MATES TRUST NZ is a Registered Charitable Trust: RN CC 44541
We depend on contributions and donations from businesses like yours and members of the communities we serve. Please help us to continue helping people in crisis.
General Donations:
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Online / Bank Deposit - TSB BANK 15 3942 0905616 26 or Paypal (Click Here)
- Enhance the reputation of your organisation as one that is socially responsible
- Joint organisational and/or program promotional opportunities to broad or targeted demographic groups within your community
- Joint organisational and/or promotional opportunities that target specific social issues of relevance to your organisation or your employees eg: emotional wellbeing, suicide prevention
The Benefits Corporate Partnerships bring to MATES
- Alignment with internationally respected businesses that share the same values and focus of MATES.
- Increased/enhanced international MATES profile with other businesses committed to becoming more socially responsible.
- Opportunities to obtain professional support, expertise, products, services and/or funding from businesses that enhance MATES internal capacity to deliver professional, relevant and innovative services to the community.
- Increased awareness of MATES services through engagement with employees of corporate partners.
Corporate Partnership Opportunities
MATES welcomes contact from corporate organisations that may be interested to partner with MATES. Partnership opportunities may include any or all elements of the following:
- Workplace Giving
- Support of MATES Services
- Professional Expertise or Mentoring
- Product or Service Alignment
- Joint Program or Tailored Program Alignment
- Specific Cause or Issue Promotion
Corporate Partners must be willing to work towards raising awareness and financial support for MATES.
If your organisation would like to discuss partnership opportunities with MATES, please email [email protected]
Why engage with MATES?
MATES is non-discriminatory. We provide crisis support to all people, including your employees and their families. We are a relevant, unique organisation who meets the needs of the community; and we save lives. We understand the types of issues facing people in both rural and populated communities. Often a helping hand and a little support is all that is needed to connect people with the care, insights and answers that they need.
Workplace Giving
The power to make a real difference in any community is in numbers, so even a small weekly amount donated by a number of employees can go a long way towards helping MATES.
Corporate Volunteering
Volunteering with MATES helps us to continue providing vital community services, while giving your staff the opportunity to give something back to the community. It’s great for staff morale, team building and diversifying skills.
Strategic Partnerships
MATES relies heavily on community support and we know that strategic alignment with international partners can make us truly sustainable. We will work with your organisation to align our brands and values and to achieve partnership objectives to continue to deliver services and raise awareness of both organisations.
With an extensive corporate relations program, MATES will demonstrate time again how it works with the business community to develop successful cause-related marketing strategies that create mutually beneficial relationships that make a difference in the community while meeting your business objectives.
We know that the right partnership will impact and improve the quality of life of your workforce, their families and your stakeholders, which in turn will increase your workplace morale, employee productivity and overall visibility within the community.
We also know that:
- 66% of consumers would choose a brand that promotes its support of a charity over one that does not
- In the last year 23% of consumers had switched due to a brand’s support of a cause
- Over 49% of New Zealanders are concerned about mental health as a social issue and this number is rising globablly. - Real Not Spiel, Sweeney/Cavill + Co, 2008.
You Can Partner Strategically with MATES in the Following Ways:
- Fund the development of MATES Cafe suicide prevention community projects (MATES Cafe Community 1/1 Crisis Support and Community Phone App) to connect people with care in high-risk communities.
- Provide cash funding that allows MATES to increase its brand awareness, increase community support and develop programs that will contribute to our future sustainability.
- Provide MATES exposure to your existing markets and customer touch points, connecting the public with care and generating more community support and donations.
- Fund our MATES Cafe community initiative – we need resources to take the project to the next phase which is completion of the mobile phone app and international coverage of MATES centres and programs including Mind Renaissance and the Emotional Reset Technique. Your corporate funding will enable us to roll out MATES Cafe internationally to benefit all people.
Corporate Volunteering and Fundraising:
Companies need stable, healthy communities in which to prosper and many recognise that volunteers play a key role in developing and maintain healthy communities.
Many companies are encouraging employees to volunteer and support a cause to help the wider community. Some companies even offer their employees paid leave to undertake community-based work.
Corporate volunteering and fundraising can have a very positive impact on your workplace including:
- Fostering good staff morale
- Promoting a sense of community within your organisation
- Providing a cost-effective strategy to reduce employee absenteeism
- Engaging your clients and suppliers
- Helping to build individuals’ confidence and self-esteem by giving them an opportunity to give back to the community.
Volunteering opportunities
Volunteering with MATES assists and supports us in continuing to provide our 24 hour crisis support service. Staff may choose to volunteer regularly or on a needs-basis, assisting MATES with specific campaigns and fundraising events.
Our team will work with you to develop a tailored volunteering program for your staff. Your employees can choose to volunteer as a team or as an individual, locally or internationally.
More information about volunteering can be found by emailing: [email protected]
Raise funds
Workplaces can choose to raise funds for MATES by organising specific events within their workplace. Fundraising events are the perfect opportunity to raise funds and help support MATES services, while at the same time raising awareness of stress management, health and wellbeing in your workplace.
Your workplace might decide to hold a special event for MATES. We can assist with your event by providing ideas, promotional material and supplying you with the necessary information. For example, you might choose to host a charity ball in MATES honour, or facilitate a networking function with your stakeholders with funds directed to MATES.
For further information about fundraising for MATES please view MATES fundraising guidelines on our website. To discuss your corporate volunteering and fundraising options, please contact MATES Fundraising team: Phone: +649 8890800 / Email: [email protected]
Tax Benefits
Workplace giving donations are deducted from pre-tax employee salaries, which mean that individual taxable income is reduced. MATES has Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status through MATES Trust NZ, which means that workplace giving contributions qualify for an immediate tax deduction.
For more information visit the Inland Revenue Department Website.
Workplace Giving
By volunteering your time and skills to MATES you can help connect others with care.
Workplace giving provides individual employees with the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of other people by donating a nominated amount from each pay.
The power to make a real difference in any community is in numbers, so even a small weekly amount donated by a number of employees can go a long way towards helping MATES provide its vital services and programs.
Workplace giving is an incredibly easy, hassle-free way to donate to MATES on a regular basis – and the donations really do make a difference. Low administration costs ensure that the money donated is used where it is needed most.
Funds received through workplace giving helps MATES to...
- Answer calls to MATES 24 hour telephone crisis support service
- Provide training in suicide prevention and awareness
- Develop suicide bereavement support programs
- Recruit Facilitators and Telephone Crisis Supporters
- Provide access to self-help resources
- Promote help seeking behaviour and awareness of mental health issues and suicide prevention
Approach your CEO - boost your workplace contribution
Some workplace giving partners might choose to further boost the contribution provided by employees by matching the amount dollar-for-dollar at a corporate level. This provides further tax deductions for the employer and means that more funds are raised for MATES. This is of course an optional approach to workplace giving.
Getting started - how workplace giving works:
Setting up workplace giving Fundraising Team is easy with the assistance of MATES. Below, we describe what you need to do and how MATES will help you achieve your giving goals.
- Speak to your management/payroll team about adding MATES to your existing list of charities, or ask payroll to set the program up. MATES can provide you with a tailored workplace giving nomination form that you can adapt for your payroll and employees to use, and discuss workplace giving with your payroll area if required.
- Promote the program to your staff and encourage participation. You could also ask your management team if they are willing to encourage staff contributions by matching donations dollar for dollar (optional). Circulate MATES marketing materials and workplace giving nomination forms to staff. Consider inviting a MATES representative to visit and provide more information to staff or arrange a conference call via Skype.
- Deposit your donations to MATES (monthly, quarterly or bi-annually) MATES provides interested employees with access to a monthly e-newsletter which demonstrates programs and initiatives that MATES is involved with. We can also provide your employees with self-help resources.
- Keep MATES updated on your news and initiatives from your organisation. MATES is keen to help promote your organisation to our e-newsletter subscribers. We can also contribute articles to your staff or client newsletters and website to keep donors updated on what’s happening at MATES and how their funds are used.
Your financial assistance will help grow a MATES Center in your Community and HELP US SAVE LIVES...
MATES TRUST NZ is a Registered Charitable Trust: RN CC 44541
We depend on contributions and donations from businesses like yours and members of the communities we serve. Please help us to continue helping people in crisis.
General Donations:
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Online / Bank Deposit - TSB BANK 15 3942 0905616 26 or Paypal (Click Here)
Current Supporters
MATES acknowledges our national partners, corporate supporters and workplace giving partners. The funding, expertise and/or products and services provided by these organisations are helping us to realise our goals.
MATES acknowledges our national partners, corporate supporters and workplace giving partners. The funding, expertise and/or products and services provided by these organisations are helping us to realise our goals.
