Macquarie in the Community March 2012 - Australia / New

MACQUARIE IN THE COMMUNITY
Staff in the Community Awards - 2011 winners
In 2006, BFS investment advisor David Lush, from Macquarie’s Calgary office, thought it a good
idea to involve local ice hockey team the Calgary Flames in a small charity function. From low-key
beginnings, the poker game event David co-founded grew into the Flames’ most successful financial
and entertainment undertaking, with its Ambassadors’ Celebrity Poker Tournament most recently
raising $C550,000 (total proceeds raised since inception have been over $C2.75 million).
As a Flames Ambassador, David was also able to direct a portion of the 2011 tournament proceeds
to a charity of his choice: the Impact Society, which helps young people develop positive behaviour.
As well as personal fundraising, a significant contribution David was able to make to the Impact
Society in Calgary was introducing it to Top 10 rock musician Robb Nash who tours high schools
inspiring thousands of students through song. David’s fundraising has enabled Nash to motivate
even more young people, winning David the 2011 Fundraiser of the Year.
For Justine Huh, in Seoul’s MFG MIRA, her path to becoming the 2011 Volunteer of the Year was
inspired by both a friend working in the community sector and MFG Executive Director Ben Way, who
introduced the idea of an office Community Day. “When Ben first came up with the idea of the
Community Day, I really wasn’t so sure it was actually going to materialise. But with his endless support
and encouragement, as well as all the Korean Community Advisory Committee members who’ve been
so wonderful during the last couple of years, it’s a successful annual event,” Justine said.
Ben Way himself attributes Community Day to the leadership role Justine took. “Through hard
work, persistence and great passion she got the office behind the idea and made it a reality,” he
said. “Most importantly, Justine helped many of our team see the impact they could have on our
community.”
Making a difference in the bigger picture was what inspired Lina Tao to contribute to two US
charities. Lina, from MFG MIRA in New York, offered her web skills and marketing talents to
ReserveAid, which assists the families of active duty personnel, and Inwood House, which
supports teens in pregnancy prevention and family support. Her valuable contribution of time,
service and money saved won Lina the 2011 Pro Bono Adviser of the Year.
“Both needed some assistance with their online and print marketing materials, which is what
connects the charities to the outside world,” Lina said. “I enjoy creating something that inspires
confidence in the charities and feel it helps them improve their ability to communicate the power
of their work and persuade donors and others to rally to the cause.”
...PTO/
Australia / New Zealand
Clockwise from left: Lina Tao, David Lush (second on left) and Justine Huh.
Richard Sheppard, Chairman
Chairman’s message
In this edition of Macquarie in the
Community, we recognise the significant
and diverse contribution staff make in their
local communities. We are pleased to profile
the individual winners of the Macquarie Staff
In The Community Awards for 2011 across
fundraising, volunteering and pro bono
categories, as well as teams of staff who
contribute through collective efforts.
We have also provided some further
information on the charities to which the
2011 CEO’s Global Community Challenge
winning and highly commended offices
have chosen to donate.
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Staff in the Community Awards
- 2011 winners continued
Team Award
And finally, the MOT New York team, which
has worked with Older Adults Technology
Services (OATS) for two years, won the 2011
Team of the Year Award. They have invested
more than 1,000 hours in pro bono support
through classroom volunteering, constructing
computer labs in seniors’ centres and providing
intensive consulting services. Through this
partnership the Macquarie team have
leveraged $US900,000 in federal funding,
provided $30,000 in in-kind donations and
services and created a long-term plan for 24
new computer labs.
Highly commended awards
Fundraiser of the Year
Will Holland,
FICC, London
- Royal National Lifeboat Institute
Craig Stovel,
BFS, Toronto
- Big Brothers / Big Sisters
Sheila Schroeder,
MSG, San Francisco
- Leukaemia and Lymphoma Society
Volunteer of the Year
Andrea Bustillo,
MacCap, Vancouver
- Victim Services, West Vancouver
Police Department
Aran Flanagan,
MOT, Sydney
- Children’s Cancer Institute Australia
Richard King,
FICC, London
- Reach Out!
Pro Bono Adviser of the Year
Randy Reiff,
FICC, New York
- Matt’s Promise
Gavin Winbanks,
CEX, London,
- The Accept Consortium
Jeff Wiseman,
FICC, New York
- Educational Partnership for
Instructing Children (EPIC)
Team of the Year
Staff in the Albury office
- Cancer Council of NSW
MacCap ED’s Team, Sydney
- Oxfam Australia
Staff in the Cape Town office
- Habitat for Humanity
Staff in Hong Kong and Singapore
in the Project Hammer Team
- Tabitha Foundation and New Hope
for Cambodian Children
Foundation News
Regular readers of Macquarie in the Community would know that the Manila office’s community
spirit is frequently profiled in these pages. Their win in the CEO’s Global Community Challenge,
announced in December, is recognition of the range and diversity of their community efforts.
In February, Emily Verde, from HR in Manila, sent the Foundation a note providing some
background about the particular culture in the Philippines that encourages such community spirit
or ‘bayanihan’. This is a Filipino word which originated from two Filipino words: bayani, meaning
‘hero or heroine or leader’ and ‘bayan’, meaning ‘nation, town, or community’. Combining the
essence of both words, bayanihan invokes ‘a sense of leadership and initiative’ or ‘a sense of
community’. In a wider sense, it refers to the spirit of leadership, initiative, volunteerism,
cooperation, camaraderie and unity.
This culture goes some way towards explaining why Macquarie’s Manila office is replete with staff
keen to contribute to those less fortunate in their society.
Earlier this year, by popular vote, Manila and the highly commended offices Bloomfield Hills and
Vancouver chose the charities they wished to benefit from the competition proceeds, (Manila
chose to distribute its proceeds among three charities). The charities are:
Manila
($A25,000)
Bloomfield Hills
($A,5000)
Vancouver
($A5,000)
Foundation grants
Children’s Hour provides marginalised Filipino children with access
to education, health and nutrition and greater opportunities in life.
Hospicio de San Jose is a welfare home for orphans, abandoned and
special children and elderly people.
Haribon Foundation is a conservation agency at the forefront of
environmental and wildlife protection in the Philippines.
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries provides food, shelter, housing,
employment training, case management and more to the most
disadvantaged members of the local community.
The Canucks Autism Network enhances the quality of life for children
and youth living with autism in British Caledonia.
At its December 2011 Board meeting, the Foundation reaffirmed its commitment to a number
of not-for-profit organisations.
The Foundation has extended its support of the Research Innovation Diabetes Partnership - part
of its ongoing support to Juvenile Research Diabetes Foundation Australia - for a further year.
The Foundation signed a $A2.2 million four-year partnership with JDRF Australia in 2007 and is
providing an additional one-year grant to support the organisation in 2012. A grant has also been
provided to support the JDRF UK’s ‘Spin To Cure Diabetes’ events this year as well.
The Foundation is continuing to support the Cerebral Palsy Alliance in Australia by underwriting
the organisation’s key fundraising event, the 20/twenty Challenge. This means that every dollar
participants raise during the event (a two kilometre swim, a three kilometre kayak and 20
kilometre walk) goes directly towards purchasing equipment for children with cerebral palsy.
Finally, the Foundation is once again the principal corporate supporter of the UK’s Streetwise
Opera in 2012. Streetwise runs a weekly music workshop program in 11 homeless centres
around the UK, and staging bi-annual productions to give performers a chance to star in quality
shows. The Foundation has supported Streetwise since 2008.
Note: Unless otherwise stated, all monies raised by staff mentioned in this newsletter include
Macquarie Group Foundation matching and are denominated in local currency.

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1 MSG’s David the buff man for the job
David Phillips – “another year, another
calendar” – recently contributed £1,100 to two
charities by again enlisting his fellow rugby
team mates to appear in a calendar for a good
cause. David’s team stripped off to raise
money for Help for Heroes (assisting wounded
British servicemen and women) and SANDS
(Stillbirth And Neonatal Deaths), with David
leading the production, design and
photography of the 2012 calendar and even
appearing in front of the camera himself. The
decision to adopt a slightly more risqué style
for this year’s edition paid off when the
200-strong print run sold out within a fortnight.
David, from MSG in London, is already taking
pre-orders for 2013.
2 Halfway up, and the £20,000 hill turns
into a mountain
For the third year in a row FMG’s Lisa Young
signed up for the International Childcare Trust’s
annual cycling fundraiser - but the latest trip in
Sri Lanka was “by far the hardest!” As the
fourth time for MacCap’s Graeme Conway and
the third for CEX’s Yohan Powell, all of them
tackled a steep ‘hill’ which turned out to be
higher than the highest mountain in Britain, the
1,344 metre Ben Nevis! The cycling was not
made any easier when the participants were
challenged to, and then promptly thrashed at,
a game of cricket by kids from Makandura
Village. This is where ICT supports a project
which provides support and rehabilitation to
children displaced by the civil war and tsunami,
and which currently houses over 150 children.
The intrepid Macquarie three were able to raise
over £40,000 for ICT on this particular trip and,
while not getting on a bicycle himself, MOT’s
Matt Bateson also played a part in contributing
to the effort by coordinating the donation of 10
recycled Macquarie laptops. These were
carried over to Sri Lanka by the riders for the
village’s education programme.
London’s Yohan Powel, Lisa Young and Graeme
Conway ride far and high in Sri Lanka for
International Childcare Trust.
1 MSG London’s David Phillips has nothing to hide in
2012.
3 Anna Le Masurier, from CEX in Sydney, with a patient
and medic during her visit to a primary healthcare
clinic on the Thai-Burma border.
4 Indian kids get a visit from a local Macquarie Santa.
6 Po Leung Kuk mentees celebrate the program with
their Macquarie mentors at a dinner in December.
11 BFS Toronto’s Danielle Blair with children from Mali
who now enjoy fresh drinking water.
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Some people run marathons to raise money for
charity, while others climb mountains, ride bikes
or swim. CEX’s Anna Le Masurier chose a more
sedentary fundraising approach between July and
November last year when she asked friends and
colleagues to sponsor her in a readathon. Anna
read 25 books and raised more than $12,000 for
Burmese refugees and migrant workers seeking
gynaecological surgery through the Burma
Women’s Medical Fund, a charity based in Mae
Sot on the Thai-Burma border. Having needed
similar treatment herself over the last decade,
Anna wanted to help other women who were
unable to afford it. “I would have died a couple
of times over the last few years, including halfway
through my readathon, without the excellent
medical care available in Sydney,” Anna said.
“I was keen to give other women who don’t have
the same financial resources access to treatment
as well.” Anna also visited Mae Sot in December
to meet patients whose surgery she helped fund
- and read a few more books while she was there.
4 Howzat for the Swashrit Society
Eleven Gurgaon staff recently played cricket with
and raised money for children from the Swashrit
Society, an organisation that runs literacy centres
and schools for more than 300 children in slums
in the Karol Bagh area. Macquarie’s cricket
champions managed to fight off competition
at the qualifying match before realising they had
underestimated the children’s team, which
ultimately won the tournament. Former Indian
cricketer and chief guest Gurcharan Singh was
the special guest at the sports day although the
highlight from the kids’ perspective was Santa
(alias Macquarie staff) distributing gifts. More than
INR70,000 was contributed through the Diwali
event from food and game sales.
5 ‘Is an arts degree worth it’?
A dynamic debate between Macquarie London
volunteers and 12 sixth form students from the local
Cardinal Pole School kicked off the first of three
Uni-Guide sessions, which aim to provide an insight
into what university is like for prospective students.
Macquarie volunteers spent two hours discussing
options and issues arising from the debate’s thesis
– ‘Is a humanities or arts degree really worth it?’ –
while the students, many of whom will be the first
in their family to go onto further education,
considered courses they might want to study. A lively
contest ensued with students ultimately recognising
that they may not necessarily go on to find a job in
the field they initially study.
Whipping up discussion at a Uni-Guide meeting in
London.
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6 The biggest gift of all for Hong Kong
mentors
As a graduate of Hong Kong’s Po Leung Kuk
(Society for the Protection of Women and
Children), Candice Lee has experienced some
hardship in her life. But investment in her
education by both Po Leung Kuk and a Macquarie
mentoring program contributed to Candice
recently being offered a position with PwC.
Macquarie’s Hong Kong mentors were pleased
to hear from Candice who wrote: “All the skills
I’ve learnt from the Macquarie mentorship program
were incredibly useful and helpful during that
recruitment process. I greatly appreciate it and
can’t believe that my dream is coming true and
I’m one step closer to achieving my goal, to
become a real accountant.” The mentoring
partnership began last year as part of a Foreign
Correspondent Club Charity funded initiative which
saw 13 PLK students participate in the nine-month
program. The Macquarie Group Foundation and
Human Resources established and managed
sessions including presentation, resume writing,
interview and etiquette skills. The program
concluded with a Christmas dinner in December
with all mentees attending and receiving gifts.
7 MOT gets Streetwise
Moving business premises is not an area of
expertise for Streetwise Opera, a charity whose
staff spend their working hours creating and
delivering musical workshops for the UK’s
homeless. That’s where MOT’s Graham McGee,
Nick Alexander and Patrick Duffy stepped in,
saving Streetwise £10,000 in consultant fees by
assisting with the move. The London team were
involved in all aspects of the shift: ensuring the
correct telephone lines were installed,
confirming server backups, reconnecting all
relocated IT equipment, installing a UPS
(uninterruptible power supply) and conducting
post-move testing to check systems were
working. Streetwise’s Head of Development
Bridget Rennie said the charity hadn’t foreseen
how much planning was required to complete
the move efficiently. “We were so glad the team
from Macquarie took the time to help - ensuring
we were up and running on the Monday meant
no workshops were delayed and it was
business as usual.”
CSG New York’s Will Summers (left) interviews a HOPE Program
trainee.
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8 Giving HOPE instead of knockbacks
Saying the wrong thing in job interviews is pretty
common for most people at some point in their
lives. But HOPE Program participants were given
a chance to identify and learn from their mistakes
as part of Macquarie New York’s Business
Services Division’s involvement in the program
last year. Under the leadership of Ray Mays and
Laura Lenihan, the division has taken an active
role in HOPE’s internship placement and job
training and in November nine volunteers hosted
mock interview sessions with HOPE trainees.
Dressed in their interviewing best, the trainees
spent 30 minutes in a one-on-one meeting
answering questions about their resumes and
work experience. Over the ensuing lunch, the
interviewers and interviewees discussed common
interviewing mistakes and challenges and how to
best prepare for them. The HOPE Program helps
individuals living in extreme poverty to find and
grow careers, serving close to 700 residents
throughout New York City each year.
9 Generosity in abundance
With parts of the US experiencing skyrocketing
rates of hunger, Macquarie staff have responded
by volunteering in significant numbers with food
rescue organisations. In New York, teams of
Macquarie employees assisted City Harvest with
the last greenmarket harvests of 2011, harvesting
thousands of pounds of fresh produce from local
farmers for use in soup kitchens around the city.
Macquarie’s strong support of the charity saw
City Harvest award employees with volunteer
spots at the New York Produce Show earlier this
year. This is one of the largest City Harvest food
rescues in the calendar and 50,000 pounds of
food for New York’s hungry were saved from
garbage dumps.
In Philadelphia, staff have an ongoing partnership
with the region’s largest hunger relief organization,
Philabundance. Staff in the Philadelphia office
recently held a food drive to ensure the lowincome
residents who rely on Philabundance,
23% of whom are children and 16% seniors, did
not go hungry. Boxes were assembled, filled, and
delivered to support Philadabundance’s mission
to ‘drive hunger from our communities’.
Philabundance feeds over 800 local families.
10 Mumbai staff in trailblazing Indian
Trailwalker
Four members of Mumbai’s MSG team - Amit
Mishra, Inderjeet Bhatia, Rakesh Arora and
Unmesh Sharma - endured the blazing Indian sun
for a good part of the 33 hours it took them to
complete India’s inaugural Oxfam Trailwalker
event in February. The team stormed past their
initial fundraising target of $US4,000, raising more
than $US8,000 from family, friends and
Macquarie staff around the globe to address
poverty and gender injustice (focusing on children
in India). The foursome were pleased to finish as
a team, being one of only around 20 team
entrants out of more than 80 to do so. The 100
kilometre walk took place through the countryside
and forests near the city of Bangalore.
11 Hand to mouth existence in Mali eased
through clean water
Danielle Blair chose to spend part of her leave
recently in a remote village in Mali, delivering and
installing 100 water filters as part of a Hands
Across the Nation trip. Danielle, from BFS
Toronto, was able to contribute because of
generous donations from her colleagues who
indulged in her bake sales and other fundraising
efforts. Approximately 370 people now have
clean drinking water following the water filter
installation, with Danielle seeing first hand how
the new local health centre – also supported by
Hands Across the Nation – addressed the
medical issues of villagers living in the community
of Mana, including maternity care, malaria and
wound dressing. Danielle said that inroads were
also made with the local school for appropriate
supplies. “There is much more work to be
continued but we have successfully raised
enough for the materials,” Danielle said.
our staff
12 A seasonal lunch to help out
In December, Fatima Newman from RMG
Johannesburg organised a lunch for around 45
senior citizens as part of a regular annual event
for older people who live on the state pension
with no other means of income. MSG’s Duarte
De Silva and Fatima both also contributed
provisions at the lunch while other Macquarie
staff assisted by collecting and returning
attendees to and from their homes. After the
function, the guests were each given hampers
packed with groceries and goodies from funds
donated by Macquarie staff.
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London offices
Macquarie London opened its doors to 12
Prince’s Trust UK Young Ambassadors recently,
providing graduates of the Prince’s Trust
Enterprise programme a chance to practice
crucial public speaking and presentation skills.
The ambassadors are selected to represent the
charity at high profile events so were
appreciative of the role played by 15 Macquarie
staff who acted as a mock audience, asking
questions and giving feedback. At a subsequent
House of Lords event to celebrate the work of
the Prince’s Trust, several of the ambassadors
spoke about their journey from young offenders
and job seeker queues to more confident young
people with direction and focus.
FICC’s Seeta Haria takes Prince’s Trust ambassadors
on a tour through the London office.
community
in the
Macquarie volunteers help to harvest more than 50,000 pounds of food
from the New York Produce show.
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The hard-walking MSG Mumbai Trailwalkers: Unmesh Sharma, Rakesh Arora, Inderjeet Bhatia and Amit
Mishra.
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14 Saving smiles for people with FSHD
In 2009, BFS Perth’s James Harvey was
diagnosed with facioscapulohumeral muscular
dystrophy (FSHD), a muscle disease causing
progressive weakening starting in the face,
shoulders and upper arms. As a keen sportsman
prior to FSHD’s onset, James has switched his
interest in physical activity to raising the profile of
the disease within the community. He and
colleague Emma Collins have helped raise more
than $66,000 for research into the disease as part
of the online campaign ‘Save Our Smile’, so
named because often one of the first symptoms
of FSHD is that it affects a person’s ability to smile.
15 Paddle for Pop provides for rehab patients
In January 2011, Anthony Abraham’s dad was
dumped by a big wave at the beach, causing spinal
injuries which left him in a wheelchair. Following an
intensive rehabilitation program at Sydney’s Royal
Rehabilitation Centre, Anthony’s father was able to
walk again, inspiring Anthony, from BFS, to support
the work of its spinal injury unit. He came up with
the ‘Paddle for Pop’ fundraising campaign, kayaking
200 kilometres down the Murray River over two
days and raising $15,780 in the process. These
funds were able to purchase a recumbent cross
trainer for the rehab unit which enables strength and
flexibility training for patients.
Anthony Abrahams raised enough money to purchase
rehabilitation equipment at a Sydney hospital; his
father demonstrates the use of it here with family
and hospital staff.
Contact Us
For more information on Macquarie Group
Foundation activities or to submit a story
for the next edition please contact:
Sally Shepherd
+61 (02) 6103 3116
Sally.Shepherd@macquarie.com
www.macquarie.com/foundation
My day job is... Senior Project Manager for
Macquarie Leasing.
I got involved with Salvos Legal because... I saw
an opportunity to help promote a great cause while
utilising my online development knowledge and gain
experience serving on an advisory committee at the
same time.
My community needs... More pro bono lawyers to
offer professional legal assistance to people in need.
I can help my community by... Increasing
awareness of the new Salvos Legal business model
to drive income needed for pro bono legal work.
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16 Staying on course for JDRF’s 2012 Ride
to Cure
In January, 15 BFS and an MFG staff member
took to the Adelaide Hills to participate in the
annual JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes. With varying
cycling abilities, the Macquarie riders completed
either the 80 or 160 kilometre courses through
the Barossa Valley. One Macquarie rider
accidentally took a detour which saw him end up
30 kilometres away from the course and another
completed the ride on a mountain bike - no easy
feat. The team raised more than $90,000 to help
find a cure for type 1 diabetes.
17 Easy does it for gardening interns
Fears of slugs, bugs and spiders did not deter
IT interns who wanted to contribute to the
community during their tenure with Macquarie
over the Sydney summer. The group of 18 pulled
on gardening gloves and volunteered with
EasyCare Gardening, an organisation that helps
elderly and disabled pensioners retain their
independence and stay in their own homes for
longer. The interns weeded, mulched and pruned
and, although somewhat tired and sore afterward,
achieved more than initially expected and made a
noticeable difference to the garden of an
appreciative elderly resident.
18 Pack the bags for a Smith Family
Christmas
For the past 14 years, MOT’s Peter Eastham has
organised a Macquarie team to help with the Smith
Family’s Christmas hamper packing night. The
volunteers assembled thousands of food and gift
boxes for Sydney’s less fortunate and, after many
hours working on a conveyor belt production line
and only a few sore backs and bruised fingers, the
hampers were packed, sealed and ready for
delivery. Peter said his Macquarie colleagues were
always willing to participate in the event and the
volunteer list was regularly oversubscribed.
A willing team of hamper packers in Sydney volunteer for
the Smith Family.
If I could fix one problem it would be... Finding a
solution to homelessness.
The person who inspires me is... Luke Geary,
founder of Salvos Legal, who developed the business
model of providing profession legal services and
using that income to pay for humanitarian volunteer
work. It is an innovative new service that is growing
rapidly in Sydney and is attracting attention from the
Salvation Army world wide.
If everyone could just do one thing to make a
difference what would it be? Do something.
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to change a lot in
the lives of people in need.
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Regional news
Australia /
New Zealand
The hills were alive for Macquarie cyclists during a
significant fundraising ride for JDRF in January.
19 Let’s get this party started – for kids
Christmas is one of the most difficult times of year
to be in hospital, especially for kids. In December,
RMG’s Erin Piatek coordinated 25 volunteers from
businesses across Macquarie’s Sydney office,
including 13 summer interns and eight graduates,
to participate in the Sydney Children’s Hospital
Christmas program. The program involved staff
travelling to the hospital for a morning or afternoon
over the course of three days and hosting a
Christmas party in the outpatients clinic. Using
donations from both the participants and the
Macquarie Group Foundation, the volunteers also
purchased presents for the kids to hand out. The
program aims to lighten the load of staff at Sydney
Children’s Hospital and provide seriously ill
children with a creative environment.
Sydney interns beat around the bush.
Staff Snapshot
Ben Sterrey
MOT, Sydney
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From left: Jodi Underdown, Mandy Gooch, Jessica Dyson
and Benjamin Teo entertain kids at the Sydney Children’s
Hospital.
Ben is on the management committee for
Salvos Legal, which provides free legal
aid for people in need.