Community Mates aims to connect individuals, businesses, and charities to foster social change through volunteerism. The organization operates by encouraging volunteers to donate their time to standalone events, emphasizing empathy and community building. To date, they have supported numerous charities and organized multiple events, significantly impacting various communities.

1. A Model for Social Change

2. Our Mission
Community Mates aims simply to bring people,
businesses and charities together.
Key Principles:
l Bring groups of people together who already know each other, be they friends,
colleagues or family (ie engage with an individual – Community Champion or Corporate
Champion – and have them source their peers for an event)
l Have people donate their time, not funds
l Have no ongoing requirement from volunteers, each event is stand alone and discrete
l Have no requirement for pre training or the like, each event is the volunteer’s only
donation of time

3. Community Mates lending a
hand with beyondblue and
Sydney FC’s efforts to raise
awareness of depression
and anxiety at the A League
Beyond Blue Cup

4. Why?
We believe that we don’t
just live in our community,
we create it.
We believe that by donating one’s time
without expectation for something in return,
one can cultivate empathy, and that when
the two are combined with scale and scope
deep and lasting social change can be made.

5. How we work...
INDIVIDUALS & MATES
You want to do something
good in the community.
Get in touch with
Community Mates
BUSINESSES
You want your employees
and your business to
do something
good in the
community
By spreading the word we
connect with mates, with
colleagues, with businesses
who want to do something
good in the community
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CHARITIES &
ORGANISATIONS
We all spread the word
about what you’ve done and
how you’ve helped in the
community
VOLUNTEERS
Community Mates
connects you with
CHARITIES &
ORGANISATIONS
who need volunteers in your
area

6. To date
Significant time is invested in sourcing appropriate charities for Community Mates’ Community
Champions and volunteers.
To date, we have far more eager Community Champions than events but are greatly
encouraged by the significant demand shown.
Volunteer
hours:
545
Individual
volunteers:
77
Individual charities
supported
22
Number of events
supported:
41
Figures last updated 20/11/13

7. Our Fremantle Community
Mates volunteers were up
before sunrise to help out
the MS Society to ensure
that their annual Ocean
Ride for MS event was a
wonderful success.

8. Who we have supported so far
A Liquid Future
20
Guide Dogs SA
and NT
Amberley Aged
Care
Asociasion de Niños
con Sindrome Down
Ithuba
30
22.5
Breast Cancer
Care WA
Cystic Fibrosis
Western Australia
Disabled Surfers
Association
Dubai Cares
9
Beyond Blue
141
2
JDRF - Walk to
Cure Diabetes
Legacy
Nude Your Food
MS Australia
OneWave
Panwakema
20
22
21
33
1
14
Tour de
Gractown
White Ribbon
Youth Focus
6.5
12
6
45
Room to Read
49
Sir David Martin
Foundation
12.5
Telethon
Adventurers
39
20
12
7
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Who can
we help
next?...
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Numbers indicate total hours volunteered to date

9. Community Mates must aim to maintain a low risk profile
and its secularity so as to not isolate or discourage potential new
stakeholders, be they community organisations or participants
Community Mates Byron Bay
recently got together to sell
raffle tickets throughout the
Byron Bay Surf Festival - and
raised over $1500 for the
Disabled Surfers Association
of Australia and Surfers For
Cetaceans (S4C).

10. Recent Events and Our Footprint
Dubai Cares
Legacy Australia
Disabled Surfers
Dubai Cares works in countries
with chronic deficiencies in primary
education where it implements
development programs that target
the underlying causes preventing
children from accessing quality primary
education. Comprehensive in scope,
the philanthropic organization’s primary
education programs integrate four key
components: School Infrastructure;
School Health & Nutrition; Water,
Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) in Schools;
and Quality of Education.
Legacy is a charity providing services to
Australian families suffering financially
and socially after the incapacitation or
death of a spouse or parent, during or
after their defence force service. We
currently care for 100,000 widows and
1,900 children and disabled dependants
throughout Australia.
The Disabled Surfers Association was
established in 1986 Many surfers with
disabilities have unfortunately, been
loners with no one to help them get
back into the water.
http://www.dubaicares.ae
http://www.legacy.com.au/
Many suffer from disabilities that the
general public would not consider
a disability. From asthmatics to joint
injuries to paraplegic, many members
have found friendship, support and have
renewed their interest in surfing.
http://disabledsurfers.org/

11. 21
8
Current Team
Chapters
Preliminary Discussions
Advanced Discussions
Individual Earmarked
Countries
UK
Germany
Canada
France
Switzerland
Poland
Austria
Turin, Italy
New York
Dubai
Guatemala
Philippines
Singapore
Broome
South Africa
Kalgoorlie/Kambalda
Perth x 3
Fremantle
Margaret River
Adelaide
Albany
Melbourne
Mackay
Brisbane
Byron Bay
Sydney
Wollongong
Wellington

12. Promotion and Growth
Promotion
The Push
Word of mouth driven
through:
Direct Marketing Online
l Community Champions
l Social Media
l Web
l Corporate Champions
l Participants
l Charities being
supported
Free Press / Media
l Local free press
l Local radio
A low cost
organic strategy
that focuses on
achieving growth
that is significant
but controlled

13. Such an inspiring effort!
Community Mates Guatemala
supporting the Asociation
Guatemalteca de Niños con
Sindrome Down (Guatemalan
Asociation of Kids with Down
Syndrome)

14. Structure and Management
Community
and Corporate
Champions
State
President
Board
and where necessary
Management
Committee in each
jurisdiction
Country
President
and where necessary
Management
Committee in each
jurisdiction
(people who congregate
teams of their
peers / colleagues
/ family etc)
Chapter
President

15. Our Partners
Without the support of sponsors, achieving our goals
would be impossible.
Ignite Design/Creative
Gold Coast QLD
Will your business step up and be our next
Community Mates partner?

16. Contact Us...
Founder Chris Evans
Telephone +61 410 810 955
Email
CommunityMates@gmail.com
Web
www.communitymates.org