The document summarizes the Community Resourcing (CoRe) programme, a partnership between Macquarie Group Foundation, Cripplegate Foundation, and CAF to match Macquarie staff volunteers with local charities in Islington. The programme aims to enable Macquarie staff to share their skills with charities over six months. Staff volunteers work in small groups providing a range of business, operations, and other skills. The programme has supported several charities with outcomes like new websites, marketing strategies, and winning funding. Challenges include finding the right charity matches and managing expectations, but the programme offers strategic support and tangible results for funders, charities, and corporations.

1. Kristina Glenn,
Cripplegate Foundation
Rachel Engel,
Macquarie Group Foundation

2. CoRe – Community Resourcing Programme
A partnership between Macquarie Group Foundation,
Cripplegate Foundation and CAF

3. Who we are
Macquarie Group Foundation
– Leading global corporate philanthropist
– Supporting Macquarie staff in funding and volunteering
Cripplegate Foundation
– Supporting organisations in Islington since 1500’s
– Poverty and isolation
CAF (Charities Aid Foundation)
– Create greater value for charities and social enterprise
– Transforming the way donations are made and the way charitable funds are
managed.

4. The idea – why CoRe?
Story: How the partners came together
 Macquarie – providing staff skills to local community, finding
volunteering opportunities suitable for experienced people
 Cripplegate – local knowledge, passion for change, focus on
isolation and poverty
 CAF – independent bridging role, knowledge of corporates
and charity

5. Programme aims
 The Community Resourcing (CoRe) programme enables
Macquarie staff to share their skills with local charities in
Islington over six months
 Staff volunteers are matched with organisations and work in small
groups sharing a range of skills including financial and business
planning, HR, IT, operations, legal, administration and marketing

6. Collaboration and structure
 Shared values and vision
 Senior leadership
 Project focused initiative
 Reference group
 Flexible methodology (‘Freedom within boundaries’)
 Clear programme milestones
 Consistent and regular communication
 Progress and review

7. How?
 Identified organisations (Cripplegate)
 Diagnostic of long list of organisations (CAF)
 Identified volunteers (Macquarie)
 Project plan: timeline, milestones, leadership introductions, launch
workshop, midway review workshop, closing event
 Contact with charities and volunteers throughout
 Evaluation and reporting

8. Success - 2011
 Accept Consortium:  Maytree:
 Development of consortium framework  Business development strategy
 Stakeholder mapping  Information sharing plan across sites
 Fortnightly facilitated meetings  Fostering a team approach
 Shared premises needs analysis  CEO mentoring
 Organisation of a Trustees meeting to present the
rationale of the consortium, provide an update on
 Stuart Low Trust:
progress and discuss the way forward.
 New website development
 Development of a Memorandum of Understanding
 IT support for CEO
 Collaborative bid writing - £150k contract won
 Marketing advice
 Social networking support
 Islington Play Association:
 Distribution list development
 Business development strategy
 Social networking support
 Asset review
 Volunteers participating at events and fundraising

9. Challenges
 Finding the right groups
 Managing expectations
 Transparency on behalf of the donor (Cripplegate)
 Volunteer management and investment in staff support
 CAF – ensuring communication and troubleshooting

10. Outcomes
For Funders and Organisations For Corporates
 Offers skills not available  Working with the right partners
elsewhere
 High levels of satisfaction for
 A strategic approach to staff and sector
diagnosis and delivery
 Offers long term relationship
 Project-based approach building
 Raising Aspirations and  Not a science
confidence
 Model of volunteering not tied
 Tangible results to funding
 The unexpected  Direct involvement with local
community
 Leverage – Islington Giving

11. CoRe – Community Resourcing
Questions?