Here’s an opportunity to optimize corporate spend! Saving money while participating
in St Luke’s Hospice Online Auction spins corporate spend into community support
for Cape Town’s terminally ill and their families.
It’s really simple. St Lukes Hospice in Cape Town sources corporate donations for
its Online Auction project and the public or any other corporate can then bid on
those items. The proceeds enable St Lukes to offer its 24/7 terminal nursing care
service to the community of Cape Town at no cost. The donating company’s name appears
on the St Luke’s website with a link to the donor company’s website. This provides
product exposure in return for utilization of the company community responsibility
budget in support of a really worthwhile community cause.
Vital as donors to the Online Auction are, buyers are just as important to St Lukes.
Companies can source products and services from the Online Auction and donate them
to another charity, thus doubling the value and tax benefit from the initial donation
to St Lukes. Rose Well Spa and Guesthouse already does this with other charities’
products. For example, the Guesthouse buys cookies from Helping Hands and Alma School
for the Disabled for the express purpose of donating them to AIDS volunteer workers
in the local township, a settlement nursery school and the Krugersdorp Fire Department’s
Chaplain’s teas. The same could be done on a bigger scale by donating a washing machine
or fridge to an AIDS orphanage.
It doesn’t end there. There are other budget components that can come into play.
Items on auction may be ideal for incorporation into the corporate reward programme
for staff. The reward budget can be spun bigger by making reduced cost purchases
of spa days and treatments from participating spas, or music, small appliances, jewellery
etc that staff would be found acceptable as tokens of appreciation for their work.
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