Why become a corporate supporter of the NPF?

• Improved company image
• Research has demonstrated tangible benefits that a charity connection can have on corporate and brand image.
• Corporate responsibility
• Demonstrates corporate responsibility and differentiates your product or service from the competition.
• A focus for publicity
• A promotion with National Premmie Foundation can reinforce your advertising campaign and generate substantial PR coverage in the press.
• Enhanced consumer loyalty.
• Consumers like to support a company that cares.
• Employee fundraising
• A comprehensive fundraising programme is an effective team-building tool, improving internal as well as external relations.

Why choose the NPF?

• Dedicated account management: a personal contact who will manage the partnership and be your main point of contact throughout the campaign.
• A top charity with the resources to deliver exciting and effective fundraising and publicity campaign, tailored to fulfil your objectives.
• Experience of managing high profile campaigns including Abbott.
• Committed Patron Tracey Spicer.
• Celebrity involvement for the campaign and endorsement from high profile personalities.
• An enthusiastic, young, creative and professional corporate fundraising team.

Ways of working together with the NPF
At the NPF we provide a number of different ways in which we can work together with our corporate supporters to increase awareness of premature birth and the Neonatal Intensive Care journey that many families can take after having an early or sick newborn. The NPF has a young and vibrant team that is committed to raising awareness and funds for sick and premature babies and their families through a number of tailor-made partnerships:

• National Premmie Day

The NPF has the dedication, empathy and resources to deliver an exciting and effective fundraising and publicity campaign, tailored to fulfil our corporate partners’ objectives.

The NPF is a small but professional charity with a dedicated team providing one-to-one account management to corporate clients. We also have an excellent in-house Press & PR Team that work proactively with our corporate supporters.

Corporate support - How to get involved

• Workplace or Payroll giving - donating through your salary

• Payroll giving is simple and straightforward, and provides your staff with a long-term and tax-efficient method of donating money to charity. Payroll giving offers employees the chance to give to charity and direct from their pay.

• Allowing your employees the opportunity to give through their payroll will show that you are committed to working in partnership with the wider community this in turn could lead to better employee relations.

• Payroll giving costs very little to implement and is simple to run. It offers you the chance to support your staff giving.

Please see the Australian Taxation Office website for further information http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses/content.asp?doc=/content/36719.htm or call the Australian Taxation Office on 132866.

Volunteering as an employee of an NPF corporate supporter Would you like to help out but not sure how? Then if you have some spare time when an event is being held feel free to volunteer your valuable time and reduce costs for NPF to help them raise more funds for the cause.

• Do you know how to Sew or scrapbook? You can volunteer your time to making items that the NPF can send to families that are currently in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. If you would like patterns please contact us on info@prembaby.org.au

Holding an event to help raise money for NPF If your workplace would like to hold an event to help raise money for NPF and at the same time bring a team at work together, feel free to contact our fundraising/ sponorship co-ordinator to obtain an authority to raise funds. Below are some ideas for events you can hold at work or as an after work function.

• Brush the dust off your joggers Start a running team and feel the buzz of completing a marathon. Not up to running marathon? Why not set the date, set the distance, and get sponsored to walk!

• Prefer to crawl? What could be better than a pub crawl! Charge each person to attend, hire or have a mini bus donated for the evening and you could even have a bucket with the group that is ‘crawling’ and ask other patrons in the bars to pop their change into the bucket to help support your efforts for NPF.

• The ball’s in your court! Why not hold a baseball/cricket/golf/basketball/netball/tennis/football tournament? How do you raise money? Charge entrance fees of course!

• Bullseye! For the not so energetic, how about a darts match or a game of dominoes down the pub? You could also have a balloon board and have amounts hidden in each balloon. Charge each person a small fee to play and then they aim a dart at the balloon and if they pop a balloon they donate the amount in the balloon. You must make sure each person participating is aware of the highest amount and agrees to this prior to entering.

• Anyone for a quick dip? Try a sponsored swim.

• Love cooking? Why not hold an all you can eat BBQ or buffet for your workmates/friends/associates - they’ll be happy to make a donation and scoff as much food as they can!

• Naughty but nice! Do away with the diet, get sponsored and challenge others to devour as many cream cakes as possible.

• Still a big kid? Eat jelly beans with chop sticks - how many can you cram in a certain period of time? Encourage others to guess and run a sweepstake!

• Feeling a bit portly? Shed your kilo’s whilst raising money for the NPF. Take part in a sponsored slim!

• How many grams? Bake a cake and run a competition to guess the weight. Then you can sell slices of the cake to staff for morning or afternoon tea with coffee or tea.

• Host a dinner party Get the food and wine donated or ask people to bring a course each and make a donation.

• Roll back the years! Hold a 20s party, a 50s rock n’ roll dance or an 80s disco - pick your favourite decade and watch the money come rolling in for the NPF as you charge people for a ticket.

• Christmas cracker Why not make a donation to the NPF rather than sending Christmas cards this year?

• Still got a full head of hair? Shave it off for NPF! For the not so brave, try a beard or moustache instead!

• No hair? Get sponsored to wear a silly wig for a week. The more sponsors the more money you can raise.