Giving — impacting more than you ever imagined

Impacting more than you ever imagined

According to an authorative website Ballina is a lovely town situated on the Richmond River. It is approximately 200km from Brisbane and 750km from Sydney just off the Pacific Highway.

The site tells you that Ballina has a population of 40,000 people. And it tells you the main reasons to come to Ballina NSW are for the beaches, surfing and fishing.

But maybe you might just want to go there for something quite different — an Accounting firm that’s already impacted almost 40,000 people through their giving on B1G1.

With their first giving since joining B1G1 recently, the Accounting firm, Collins Hume, have:

• Given 15,140 people in need agriculture support
• Given 14,600 people access to clean water
• Given 2,225 people medical support
• Given 1,280 people in need a nourishing meal
• Adopted 1,250 trees
• Given 1,000 people access to the toilet
• Given 620 children education support
• Given 300 people in need accommodation
• Given 52 disadvantaged people special education
• Given 50 children in need a learning tool
• Given 50 people a special gift
• Planted 23 trees to nurture the environment
• Given 12 square meters of rainforest protection
• Given 4 families a goat to provide sustainable income

Like many who live and work in essentially rural areas, Collins Hume are pretty direct people. Their website reflects that like this: “Since we began in Ballina in 1980, Collins Hume has helped many businesses, individuals and families to prosper—professionally, financially and personally. That’s our business.”

But now, as Business Manager, David Keith, puts it, “Our business has extra meaning to everyone involved.”

And that’s now beautifully reflected in the ‘About Us’ section of their site and the giving is now updated in real time automatically through the B1G1 Widget embedded on the page. 

‘Embedding’ is a key word now for the firm. David Keith expresses it like this:

The whole team felt good about the giving process and were completely ‘blown away’ by how many lives were impacted.
 
There is no real secret as to how we achieved such a spread with the giving, I simply asked all the team members to select a project (or three!)
 
They accessed the project lists and made their choices. I compiled the list and well, you’ve seen the result.
 
We feel really great that we’re able to impact so many so many lives, just by doing what we normally do.

We feel great about it too! See how you can do it — just click www.b1g1.com/buy1give1 and then just click the ‘Find Out How’ button. We’ll customise some ideas for you to show you exactly how you can do great things like Collins Hume too — wherever you are!