Community
Supporting the communities where we live and work has been an important part of Macquarie’s activities since our inception in 1969. In that time, our people have devoted thousands of hours to work with non-profit organisations around the world and together with the Foundation have contributed more than $A641 million to drive social change at the community level.
To extend this tradition, and mark Macquarie’s 50-year milestone, the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award was created in 2019. The Award was a $A50 million philanthropic commitment to initiate or build on bold ideas to address social need. Over five years, our five winning non-profits have achieved significant growth, scale and impact in their fields and we’re proud to support their work.
Learn about what our five winning organisations achieved over the past five years.
Many Macquarie employees volunteered their time through the Macquarie 50th Award Ambassador Networks, which provided additional support to the five winners through activities including awareness, fundraising and organisational capacity building.
The Macquarie Group Foundation founded the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award Ambassador Network to support and enable our people to volunteer alongside the five Award winning organisations, with identifying areas of opportunity, driving initiatives, and providing support and connectivity.
Hear from five Ambassadors on how they’re supporting the Award winners to help create a better future for communities around the world.
From close to 1,000 applications received, a rigorous multi-stage judging process was conducted to select 60 semi-finalists and then 12 finalists, based on the Award objectives.
All applications were assessed by members of the Macquarie Group Foundation team, in-depth due diligence was conducted by external consultants on the semi-finalists, and regional judging panels were conducted.
Finalist organisations participated in site visits conducted by the Macquarie Group Foundation team, who prepared reports for Macquarie Group Foundation Committee members. The Committee reviewed and assessed the 12 finalists to select the five Award winners.
The Macquarie Group Foundation drives social impact work for Macquarie Group. We support our people, businesses, and communities to build a better future, and engagement with our people is at the heart of everything we do. We aim to leverage both financial and non-financial resources to achieve the greatest social impact possible.
