Corporate Partnership

Urban Seed aims to be a good neighbour. In our location in the city this happens to be mainly with marginalised groups such as injecting drug users and people who experience homelessness. However, we are also situated on Collins Street, the 'best address in town', where our neighbours are large corporations. We are as committed to building community with the people at our front door as we are with the marginalised people at our back door.

Urban Seed has a workplace giving program in place, brokered by the Australian Charities Fund, with the following organisations:

Ongoing financial commitment is vital to an organisation of our size, so we greatly appreciate this support. However there is more than just financial benefit in these partnerships. We are working towards gaining a better understanding of how the private and not-for-profit sectors can work towards building a better community. For example, Mallesons Stephen Jaques provides significant pro bono legal support, and PricewaterhouseCoopers audits Urban Seed’s annual accounts and provides pro bono help with the tax returns for Credo Café guests.

Workplace Giving programs enable employees to make regular contributions to their preferred charities with no cost to the charities. By establishing a pattern of incremental donations from both employees and employers through their payroll, charities are able to benefit from stable funding that is free of fundraising costs.

For more information go to www.australiancharitiesfund.org.au

Clayton Utz and Ansvar Insurance are also well integrated partners. Ansvar Insurance provides financial support for our Youth and Schools team and takes an interest in what we are teaching. Clayton Utz provides financial support and pro bono legal advice to Credo Café guests.

Corporate relationships enable Urban Seed to avoid reliance on government funding. This allows us to continually call the government to account on policies and decisions that affect our neighbours. It also allows us to build community and help people in ways that don’t involve large amounts of our limited staff resources being used to meet stringent welfare benchmarks.

A Laneway Cricket match involving Goldman Sachs JBWere and the Credo community.