Partnering for Local Impact
Become a Corporate Partner. Invest in lasting local change.
Showcase your business’ commitment to the community.
By partnering with Border Trust, you strengthen the local community while highlighting your company’s impact.
We simplify local giving.
One partnership. Many local outcomes.
Border Trust is the Community Foundation for the northeast Victorian and southern NSW Border region.
For more than 20 years, we’ve helped local people, families and businesses invest over $5.7 million into projects that strengthen well-being, equity, leadership, disaster preparedness, resilience and climate readiness across six LGAs.
Our role is simple but powerful: to be the trusted local link between business generosity and community impact.
Why partner with Border Trust?
Many businesses already support causes they care about — a local charity, sporting club or community organisation.
Partnering with Border Trust allows your business to amplify that generosity, without having to choose just one cause or manage multiple relationships.
When you partner with Border Trust:
- Your support reaches multiple local organisations, not only one,
- Your giving can respond to changing needs over time,
- Your contribution is independently assessed, governed and reported,
- Your impact extends beyond a single issue to strengthen the whole.
A partnership with Border Trust allows your business to support the causes that matter today, while also strengthening the community’s capacity to respond to what comes next.
The business case for local giving.
Your clients, colleagues and staff live the realities of our region every day — rising living costs, housing pressures, natural disasters, health challenges and social isolation.
Partnering with Border Trust is an investment in the strength, resilience and well-being of the community that sustains your business.
A partnership delivers:
- Tangible local impact: Every dollar stays local, creating visible outcomes across the region,
- Staff & client engagement: Inspire pride and purpose through shared stories of local change,
- Community leadership: Demonstrate your organisation’s commitment to long-term regional prosperity,
- Trusted governance: Border Trust manages due diligence, grant administration and reporting, ensuring your contribution delivers meaningful results.
Ways to Partner
Flexible options aligned with your values, goals and capacity
Foundation Builder
A $10,000 sponsorship to make a measurable difference and gain recognition in the community.
Foundation Builders are integral to Border Trust’s longevity and ability to make a difference in the lives of people in our region.
Building and managing the Foundation – Your contributions enable us to build and grow the resources necessary to support charitable initiatives across our community.
Effective governance and compliance – Operating as a responsible and transparent organisation requires adherance to legal and regulatory requirements. Your support helps us meet these compliance costs efficiently.
Promoting the Foundation – By supporting our marketing efforts, you help us raise awareness about Border Trust and the impactful work we do, encouraging more community members to get involved and increase our local impact.
Grants management – Each year, we facilitate a grant round where charitable organisations can apply for funding. Your contributions ensure the efficient coordination and execution of this process, maximizing the impact of every grant awarded.
Foundation Friend
Be at the heart of local giving.
Your $5,000 sponsorship supports Border Trust’s impact work — enabling us to identify need, assess grants, and deliver impact where it’s needed most.
Our Foundation Friends enable us to support the local organisations who help others
Your donation enables Border Trust to remain a valuable philanthropic partner for our local community, ensuring we can continue to:
- Identify areas of local need
- Raise funds via donations and gifts
- Connect donors with charitable initiatives that align with their values
- Activate critical community projects
- Measure the impact of our collective efforts to drive positive, sustainable change.
Foundation Supporters
Provide Border Trust with your in-kind or pro-bono professional services to enable local impact
Border Trust gratefully acknowledges the contribution and ongoing generosity of our Foundation Supporters who provide in-kind support to Border Trust.
Workplace Giving
Build a culture of generosity in your workplace.
Workplace Giving helps embed local generosity into your organisational culture, giving staff a tangible way to contribute to the community they live and work in.
By fundraising as a team or enabling payroll giving, you’ll support multiple local projects each year, uniting your people around shared community outcomes.