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Giving Australia research project
The most comprehensive research on philanthropy in Australia has found that Australians and businesses are giving and volunteering more than ever before, contributing more than $11 billion in 2004.
Senator the Hon Kay Patterson launched Giving Australia: Research on Philanthropy in Australia in Melbourne on Monday 10 October 2005.
Commissioned by the Department of Family and Community Services, on behalf of the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership, the research shows the value of individual giving, $5.7 billion last year, has increased 88 per cent since 1997.
Other key findings include:
- An additional $2 billion was provided by 10.5 million Australians who lent their support by participating in raffles, lotteries and other fund-raising events.
- 87 per cent of all adult Australians, 13.4 million people, donated an average $424 each in the year to January 2005.
- Business giving has more than doubled since 2000-01, with more than 525,000 businesses, or 67 per cent of all businesses, giving $3.3 billion in money, goods, services and time during 2003-04.
- Melbourne and Sydney were responsible for nearly half of all individual donations (47.5 per cent), but Adelaide had the highest giving rate with donations from more than 90 per cent of adults.
- The number of hours donated by volunteers has risen 16 per cent since 2000, with 41 per cent of adult Australians volunteering 836 million hours.
The Giving Australia: Research on Philanthropy in Australia project is the most comprehensive survey ever of the contributions made in money and time by Australian individuals and businesses with more than 10,000 people contributing to the quantitative and qualitative research.
The quantitative components expand upon the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Survey of Individual Giving completed in 1997 and the ABS Business Generosity Survey commissioned in 2000-2001.
- The Giving Australia: Research on Philanthropy in Australia project was coordinated by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) in cooperation with the Queensland University of Technology Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies; University of Technology, Sydney, Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management; Roy Morgan Research; McNair Ingenuity Research Pty Ltd; and the Fundraising Institute of Australia.
http://www.partnerships.gov.au/philanthropy/philanthropy_research.shtml