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Issue 2/2013 Canada Our winners all share common strengths: perseverance, passion and pragmatism and we profile them below: Fundraiser of the Year Award – Jed Richards Jed is an Associate Director in Macquarie’s Adelaide office. He works with Variety South Australia, which assists local children who are sick, disadvantaged or have special needs to live, laugh and learn. Jed has raised more than $150,000 for Variety SA and for the past five years has also helped organise the Variety SA Adventure TV documentary, which features a group of people trekking across South Australia. Jed has also fundraised for a number of other organisations including Community Living Project, Tutti, Aboriginal Heritage Project and COMIC (Children of Mentally Ill Consumers). Volunteer of the Year Award – Jiri Zrust Jiri is a Division Director in Macquarie’s London office. He works with the Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Awards in the Czech Republic, an educational and Perseverance, passion and pragmatism play their part leadership program for young people of all backgrounds. Jiri has been involved in developing the strategy of the DofE International Award in the Czech Republic for the past five years. He joined the Board of Trustees in 2010 and in 2012 became the Chairman of the Board. He has engaged six new long-term business partners to support the program financially, helped develop a program for young offenders and disabled children, fundraised more than £450,000 and orchestrated an official visit from the Earl and Countess of Wessex to the Czech Republic to show their support of the DofE Award. Pro Bono Adviser of the Year Award – Community Resourcing (CoRe) program, London Twelve staff in Macquarie’s London office provided a range of professional skills to four local charities: Help on Your Doorstep (welfare organisation providing advice to local residents); Saturday Night Project (youth project); All Change Arts (local arts and education initiative) and Cubitt Gallery (gallery and workshop space for local artists). Staff met for two The Macquarie Group Foundation was very pleased to announce the 2013 winners of the annual Macquarie Staff in the Community Awards recently. The awards provide an insight into the incredible array of talent, passion and commitment Macquarie staff contribute to a range of community organisations. hours each week on average plus spent time on conference calls and emails to work on specific projects. Team of the Year Award – Aid Asia Initiative Australia, Sydney Banking and Financial Services staff member Vi Nguyen formed Aid Asia Initiative Australia in 2012, and 10 of her colleagues joined her efforts to improve the quality of life of poor communities in Vietnam. This has included developing a strategy, vision, business plan, procedures, evaluation framework and governance structure, as well as fundraising and IT assistance. Office of the Year Award – Vancouver office (119 staff) During the year, Vancouver staff contributed over 2,300 hours to their local community via 43 different activities that involved the majority of the office, many of which were ongoing and were fairly evenly distributed across volunteering, fundraising, pro bono and board service. Macquarie in the community Macquarie Vancouver staff participating in a Variety charity event for children with special needs. ...Continued overleaf

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Issue 2/2013Canada

Our winners all share common strengths: perseverance, passion and pragmatism and we profile them below:

Fundraiser of the Year Award – Jed RichardsJed is an Associate Director in Macquarie’s Adelaide office. He works with Variety South Australia, which assists local children who are sick, disadvantaged or have special needs to live, laugh and learn. Jed has raised more than $150,000 for Variety SA and for the past five years has also helped organise the Variety SA Adventure TV documentary, which features a group of people trekking across South Australia. Jed has also fundraised for a number of other organisations including Community Living Project, Tutti, Aboriginal Heritage Project and COMIC (Children of Mentally Ill Consumers).

Volunteer of the Year Award – Jiri ZrustJiri is a Division Director in Macquarie’s London office. He works with the Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Awards in the Czech Republic, an educational and

Perseverance, passion and pragmatism play their part

leadership program for young people of all backgrounds. Jiri has been involved in developing the strategy of the DofE International Award in the Czech Republic for the past five years. He joined the Board of Trustees in 2010 and in 2012 became the Chairman of the Board. He has engaged six new long-term business partners to support the program financially, helped develop a program for young offenders and disabled children, fundraised more than £450,000 and orchestrated an official visit from the Earl and Countess of Wessex to the Czech Republic to show their support of the DofE Award.

Pro Bono Adviser of the Year Award – Community Resourcing (CoRe) program, LondonTwelve staff in Macquarie’s London office provided a range of professional skills to four local charities: Help on Your Doorstep (welfare organisation providing advice to local residents); Saturday Night Project (youth project); All Change Arts (local arts and education initiative) and Cubitt Gallery (gallery and workshop space for local artists). Staff met for two

The Macquarie Group Foundation was very pleased to announce the 2013 winners of the annual Macquarie Staff in the Community Awards recently. The awards provide an insight into the incredible array of talent, passion and commitment Macquarie staff contribute to a range of community organisations.

hours each week on average plus spent time on conference calls and emails to work on specific projects.

Team of the Year Award – Aid Asia Initiative Australia, SydneyBanking and Financial Services staff member Vi Nguyen formed Aid Asia Initiative Australia in 2012, and 10 of her colleagues joined her efforts to improve the quality of life of poor communities in Vietnam. This has included developing a strategy, vision, business plan, procedures, evaluation framework and governance structure, as well as fundraising and IT assistance.

Office of the Year Award – Vancouver office (119 staff)During the year, Vancouver staff contributed over 2,300 hours to their local community via 43 different activities that involved the majority of the office, many of which were ongoing and were fairly evenly distributed across volunteering, fundraising, pro bono and board service.

Macquarie in the community

Macquarie Vancouver staff participating in a Variety charity event for children with special needs.

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Foundation newsStaff in the Community 2013 AwardsIn this edition, we feature the impressive efforts of Macquarie’s Staff in the Community Award winners and highly commended recipients. To recognise their commitment, Macquarie has made direct donations to the charities our winning staff support. The volunteer, fundraising and pro bono category winners each receive a $A10,000 donation to their charity while the winning team’s charity receives $A5,000. The winning office receives $A20,000 to donate to its nominated charity and Highly Commended recipients receive $A2,000.

We congratulate all our award recipients for their important contributions.

New grant partnersThe Board of Macquarie Group Foundation receives many applications for funding each year. At our most recent Board meeting, grants for several charities were approved. These included:

• Asha Community Health and Development Society, which works with slum residents in Delhi, India providing support, education and healthcare. Macquarie is funding an Asha project to increase the number of young people born in the slums to attend college and provide an internship program.

• Carter Burden Center for the Aging in New York, which provides a range of services to more than 10,000

people aged 60 and older each year. Macquarie is funding the Carter Burden Gallery, which is hosting an ‘Art of Aging’ project featuring the art and artists who built the contemporary art movement in New York City.

• MS Research Australia, the research arm of MS Australia. Macquarie is partnering with MS Angels, groups of business women around Australia who come together to co-fund research into multiple sclerosis.

• The Prince’s Trust, the UK’s leading charity for young people. Macquarie is continuing to fund the Prince’s Trust Macquarie Youth Index, a report providing key indications on the wellbeing of UK youth, directing the provision and funding of services to those considered hard to reach.

• The Song Room, which delivers arts-based programs to disadvantaged schools across Australia. Macquarie is funding online content development of the organisation’s programs to create a national digital arts hub for school students.

• Women’s Community Shelters, which provides short term emergency accommodation and support for homeless women to help rebuild their lives. Macquarie is funding the development of policy manuals that will enable the development of a network of shelters on a social franchise basis.

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Highly commended

fundraisers• Matt Nacard, Sydney:

KidsXpress, Batyr, The Aspiration Initiative

• Mike Siggs, Vancouver: Ride to Conquer Cancer, Canadian Tire Jumpstart, and Hockey Helps the Homeless

• Giles Heyring, Hong Kong: Movember

Highly commended

volunteers• Sean Kelly, Sydney:

Exsight Tandems

• Donna Johnson and Keith Bekker, Calgary: Rotary Club

• William Demas, New York: New York Needs You

Highly commended

pro bono advisers• Nick Browne, Melbourne:

Skin and Cancer Foundation of Australia

• Russell Lazaruk, Victoria (Canada): Camosun College, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Society, Garth Homer Society and Rotary Club

• Six Human Resources staff, New York: workshops with a variety of not-for-profits

Highly commended

teams• Sixteen New York staff:

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

• Fourteen Gurgaon staff: Asha Community Health and Development Society

• Seven Cape Town staff: Chapel Street Primary School

• Three Hong Kong staff: Po Leung Kuk

Highly commended

offices• Macquarie’s London office contributed

5,000+ hours through 63 individual and team entries

• Macquarie’s New York office contributed 3,700+ hours through 61 individual and team entries

• Macquarie’s Detroit office contributed 556 hours through 22 individual and team entries

Richard Sheppard, Macquarie Group Foundation Chair

Lisa George, Macquarie Group Foundation Global Head

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Macquarie staff get their skates onWith the hockey season at an end across Canada, Macquarie staff around the country have been pulling their skates on for charity.

Andy Rafelman from Macquarie Private Wealth’s North York office participated in the Baycrest Pro-Am for Alzheimer’s, a three-day hockey tournament allowing enthusiasts to lace up their skates and hit the ice with hockey legends. Andy’s team, which drafted Marty McSorley who played with Edmonton and Los Angeles alongside Wayne Gretzky, was the second highest fundraiser at the event, raising over $110,000.

In Victoria, the third annual Rink of Dreams event, spearheaded by Harp Sandhu from Macquarie Private Wealth, saw more than 200 people turn out to play 24 impressive hours of hockey. The event raised over $80,000 for the Help Fill a Dream Foundation, a local charity that works with children with life-threatening conditions.

Fine dining for good causesMacquarie staff across Canada have been organizing dinners to raise funds for their favorite causes. In Vancouver, Macquarie employees Carly Dean, Fiona Keller and Julie Catling came together to help organize the Canadian Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil Ball, raising over $2 million towards cancer research and support.

In Calgary, Macquarie Private Wealth’s Dave Lougheed is leading a team of staff to help raise over $100,000 towards the Famous Five Interpretive Centre. This $3.4 million Centre will open in 2014 and will highlight five prominent Alberta women who helped to pioneer women’s rights and gender equality.

Also on women’s rights, Sandra Pierce and Laura Curtis Ferrera from the North York and Toronto offices of Macquarie Private Wealth raised $88,000 with their annual Power of the Purse fundraising dinner. This money is matched six times over by the Canadian Government, raising enough to fund four ambulances in Tanzania, bringing health workers to isolated communities and providing safe, reliable transportation for pregnant women and girls.

Setting the stage in GuelphDowntown Guelph is slowly being transformed thanks to Macquarie Private Wealth’s Will MacTaggart and the Macquarie Group Foundation’s generous employee matching program, which matches donations and fundraising under its staff support policy.

Guelph’s Mayor Karen Farbridge recently announced the creation of a multi-purpose, wheelchair-accessible mobile stage for the city’s Market Square, which will be funded by Will, his family and a matching contribution from the Macquarie Group Foundation. The stage is to be used for a wide range of community events.

This is the third community infrastructure initiative Will and the Foundation have collaborated on, following the funding of a water feature and skating rink.

Power of the Purse organizer Sandra Pierce, with Plan Canada CEO Rosemary McCarney and keynote speaker Professor Janice Stein.

The MacTaggarts and their new

est additions celebrate the announcement of the stage.

In the community

A Rink of Dreams team keeps the dream alive in Victoria.

It’s easy to see the importance of having a

place for children to play downtown.

Will MacTaggart

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As the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, the Macquarie Group Foundation model centers on ‘engaged philanthropy’. This means we look to do more than make one-off financial contributions to community organizations – we also want to help build their capabilities through specific long-term grant funding, hands-on volunteering and pro bono expertise.

Since the Foundation was established in 1985, it and Macquarie staff around the world have donated more than $C200 million to community organizations – alongside the thousands of hours staff regularly spend working on not-for-profit initiatives.

Engaged philanthropy also means the Foundation’s work is significantly influenced by the interests and activities of Macquarie staff; with the backing of the Foundation, individual grassroots involvement is strengthened and extended. That’s why we direct our funding and attention to innovative and well-run organizations enjoying an active Macquarie employee connection.

Canada contact:[email protected]

More information:macquarie.com/foundation

Our aims:Support and encourage Macquarie staff leadership and engagement in their local communities.

Contribute in skilled and sustainable ways to improve the capacity of community organizations.

$C23.96mFinancial contribution1

38,000Hours volunteered2

1,300Community organisations supported2

LeadingCorporate donor in Australia3

Hands on investment in our communities

At a glance

1 Comprising Macquarie staff donations and fundraising and Foundation matching support for these; Foundation donations to commemorate staff attaining 10-year and 25-year anniversaries at Macquarie; Foundation participation grants to staff who have been on a not-for-profit board for more than 12 months; and Foundation grants to community organisations in the 12 months to 31 March 2013.

2 In the 12 months to 31 March 2013.3 Philanthropy Australia.