b'BACK TO NAVIGATION2019 AusLSA Member PerformanceEighty-eight percent of AusLSAs reporting members have a formal charitable giving programs in place made up of Corporate and workplace giving. Of these firms, all make organisational corporate style donations and seventy-nine percent operated a formal workplace giving program for staff, matching the payroll donations made by their employees. Only thirty-two percent of firms said they collected information about the participation of their employees in charitable giving programs however a further thirty-two percent said they were currently developing new processes to collect this information. The average participation rates recorded by those participating firms is thirty percent. Thirty-four percent of firms have formal foundation-type structures or separate entities to plan and administer their charitable giving. Firms also reported participating in giving-drives such as the provision of books, food and Christmas gifts. Challenges and Opportunities There are many variables that influence a workplace-giving programs success in addition to matched donations from payroll giving. Implementation and monitoring systems should include: relevance of the programs to employees and firms values and interestsregular and frequent promotion of available programs leadership support and encouragement to participate in programs ability to collect and disseminate information about the success and social outcomes of the programs.Leading law firms and Australian businesses are increasingly including their charitable giving programs as a core part of their business strategy and delivery. This means tying the investment and outcomes from these programs as an expression of their values into the achievement of their broader business purpose. This level of integration and internalisation is in turn leading to increased and longer-term commitments that benefit both firms and their community partners. To establish these types of partnerships takes time and work. Firms need to search for and develop relationships with willing organisations and develop agreed commitments and objectives. This will allow them to build partnerships that take full advantage of their special skills and resources. There is significant potential to increase participation in Payroll Giving. More than 4,000 employers who employ 3.4m workers offer payroll giving. However only 175,300 are currently donating which suggests ninety-six percent of employees at these companies which have access to a payroll giving program are not donating.There is a huge opportunity for firms to more actively promote and encourage staff to participate in their payroll giving programs. Workplace Giving Australia provides an extensive range of supporting materials and campaigns that support organisations grow their giving programs. The One Million Donors platform provides a range of specific workplace giving toolkits, resources and a recognition.PARTICIPATION MONITORED%Yes 28% No 44%Currently in Development 28%39'