Good Stories Archive
Starlight scores extra help
Rebecca Hall, senior business strategist at AT Kearney, began her foray into the world of professional volunteering at goodcompany's 2004 Australian Wish Exchange event.
PALMS auction a volunteer success
PALMS Australia, a unique group which trains volunteers to work in developing countries, was faced with a troubling predicament. Until some goodcompany volunteers came to the rescue. . .
Wishes do come true!
Jonathon Clifton usually spends his days developing business strategies to drive the performance of major accountancy group PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Cool designs and a sense of community
“The team gets to be a lot more creative on these sorts of projects for the corporate sector… We get to try out all the cool stuff the corporates won’t let us!” So says goodcompany member David Gorman, Director of Digital Dogma, a St Kilda based studio providing strategic marketing advice and graphic design.
Eyes And Ears For Helping Others
Louisa Williams volunteers her graphic design skills to goodcompany community groups despite her hectic schedule, seeing it as an opportunity to “further my skills and interact with people I don’t already work with in my organization”.
The Cottage Communicator
Enterprising volunteer Karalee Evans, a Senior Consultant at Fenton Communications has embarked on what she describes as a campaign of “not fundraising, but “friendraising”. The goal is to “raise the profile of Cottage by the Sea with corporate Melbourne”.
Super Nat’s designs hit the mark
Unsatisfied with mainstream corporate design work, Nathanael Jeaneret turned to freelance work and goodcompany to find something a bit more rewarding.
IT Training for Refugees
Scott Evans has worked in IT support and development for a number of years. He decided to become involved with goodcompany to help others and to build on his own business and communication skills. He responded to a wish from the Brotherhood of St Lawrence to build a new membership database.
Putting the ‘Fun’ Back into Fundraising
Camp Quality seeks to bring hope and happiness to children living with cancer, and was looking to repeat the success of its NSW Advisory Council, which provides excellent support in the areas of publicity, events, education and fundraising.
Fostering great designs
Jo Vautier is a partner in small design company KJO Designs. She first became interested in joining goodcompany after hearing about it from one of her clients. “I already donate a significant amount of money to different charities, and decided it would be more rewarding to actually offer my skills instead”.
Windana’s Website Wish
“With total dedication and great patience Mike worked with me – often beyond midnight on several nights – to get the site ready within a very tight deadline” said Windana’s Andrea Travers in praise of goodcompany volunteer Mike Van Samy.
Innovation consultants make for goodcompany
Zern Liew is a passionate businessman who is also enthusiastic about goodcompany.
Mr Liew is a director of Vermillion, an `innovation consulting’ business which helps clients re-imagine their business concept, strategic direction, marketing, information systems, processes and social responsibility programs.
