CORPORATE SUPPORT: OUR PARTNERSHIPS
Avon | Commonwealth Bank | The Australian Women's Weekly
The Cartridge Recycler | Dateline Imports
The BCIA is delighted to work in partnership with these well respected corporate organisations.
Our partnerships with each of the following companies are successful and rewarding. These organisations continue to demonstrate their commitment to our breast cancer research programs, thus enabling us to create better outcomes for women and bring long term benefits to Australians.
Avon
Avon is the world’s largest corporate supporter of the breast cancer cause.
We are delighted to have been in partnership with Avon Australia, its Sales Representatives and clients since 1996. Since this time, Avon has donated a remarkable $6.35 million to the breast cancer research programs of the Australian New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group.
Our partnership with Avon was awarded the Special National Award for Longevity in the 2004 Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships. This Award acknowledged our joint commitment to the breast cancer cause by advancing research and increasing awareness of this disease.
The funding support we receive from Avon is critical to our research program and helps to support:
- Current clinical trials which have funding shortfalls
- Essential infrastructure costs to conduct the ANZ BCTG research program
- New clinical trials research which otherwise would not be possible.
- Activities of the ANZ BCTG Consumer Advisory Panel which provide consumer input and advice to the ANZ BCTG research program
- The ANZ BCTG IMPACT Program (Improving Participation and Advocacy for Clinical Trials) which aims to acknowledge and thank women who have or currently are participating in the ANZ BCTG research program.
Overall, Avon has raised $9 million in Australia to support the breast cancer cause with the balance of funds donated to the YWCA Encore Program - a counselling and exercise program for women who have had breast surgery.
This extraordinary donation has been raised through the Avon Pink Ribbon and Kiss Goodbye to Breast Cancer Campaigns.
Avon is truly a company that has long been committed to corporate social responsibility and we are very proud and honoured to be working together.
Special Award
The long-term successful partnership between Avon and the ANZ BCTG received the Special Award for Longevity in the 2004 Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships.
The Special Award for Longevity honours the long term partnership between Avon and the ANZ BCTG, currently in its 15th year and the partnership’s commitment to the breast cancer cause by advancing research and increasing awareness of this disease.
The Award recognises both the quality of the ANZ BCTG’s research program and Avon’s commitment to the community.
For the full press release click here.
Commonwealth Bank
The Commonwealth Bank has proudly partnered with the Breast Cancer Institute of Australia (BCIA) since 1995, and has helped raise more than $1.7 million for the BCIA to support the research programs of the Australian New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group.
Each year, the Commonwealth Bank helps to produce the Australian Women’s Health Diary through sponsorship and sales of the diary to their staff and customers.
Bank staff lend their support by purchasing the diary, and on average more than 6,000 diaries are sold each year. The Bank matches each staff sale by donating $1 per diary sold. Over the past 12 years, the combination of Bank staff sales and the Bank's matching dollar program has generated over $493,000 for our research programs.
In 2007, the Bank sold the diary in selected branches nationally for the first time. Since then, the diary has continued to be sold each year between October and January in selected branches.
Together, the Commonwealth Bank and the BCIA are determined to make a difference towards a future without breast cancer.
Hitting Cancer for Six
Since 2007, as part of its sponsorship of the one-day cricket series, the Commonwealth Bank has conducted the Hitting Cancer for Six campaign.
This unique campaign sees the Bank donate $1,000 for every six hit during the Commonwealth Bank Series, with all funds being shared between the Breast Cancer Institute of Australia (BCIA) and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA).
Hitting Cancer for Six was run again throughout the 2010 Commonwealth Bank Series, demonstrating the Bank's ongoing commitment towards finding a cure for breast cancer and prostate cancer. At the conclusion of the 2010 Series, the total amount raised by the campaign was $65,000.
Over the past four years, through the Hitting Cancer for Six campaign, the Commonwealth Bank has donated $113,000 to both the BCIA and PCFA .
Pictured below with Mike Hussey are Associate Professor Fran Boyle, Board Member of the BCIA and Mr Andrew Giles, Chief Executive Officer of the PCFA.
The Australian Women’s Weekly
The Australian Women’s Weekly has produced the Australian Women’s Health Diary on our behalf since the first edition in 1999.
We are very fortunate to have a wonderful team at The Weekly behind the diary, many of whom have worked on every edition. Their expertise in writing, researching, editing, designing, promoting, producing and distributing the diary is the key to our diary’s great success.
The Australian Women’s Weekly promotes the diary in the magazine along with the website.
Still going strong for some 75 years, The Australian Women’s Weekly continues to entertain and inform Australian women. We are delighted to be working in partnership with such a well-known and trusted publication.
The Cartridge Recycler Pty Ltd
The Cartridge Recycler Pty Ltd is a Sydney-based company specialising in the collection and distribution of empty printer and fax toner cartridges to the toner recycling industry.
Since 2002, The Cartridge Recycler Pty Ltd (previously trading as The Toner Recycler Pty Ltd) has donated more than $143,000 to the BCIA. This is a valuable contribution to our research programs.
For every original toner cartridge collected that can be remanufactured, The Cartridge Recycler Pty Ltd donates $1.00 to the BCIA.
Alex Isajlovski and his team of collectors currently operate in metropolitan and suburban Sydney and Canberra.
For further information on the services offered by The Cartridge Recycler Pty Ltd, please phone Alex Isajlovski on 0418 488 997. Alternatively, contact the BCIA on 1800 423 444.
Dateline Imports
Dateline Imports, based in Sydney, has been established since 1977 and specialises in importing hair care and beauty products from around the world.
We are delighted that Dateline Imports is supporting our research programs with a special range of Think Pink hair appliances and tweezers.
The Think Pink range was launched in October 2006 and $1.00 from the sale of each product is donated to the BCIA.
For your nearest stockist of these products, call Dateline Imports on 1800 251 215.
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