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Macquarie to the food rescue When food rescue organisation Second Harvest asked Macquarie employees to skip lunch and help fight hunger in Toronto, they rose to the challenge, raising a record $100,000. Second Harvest collects donated perishable food from restaurants, manufacturers and shops and delivers it to over 200 charities and community groups throughout Toronto. To enable Second Harvest to provide more than 200,000 meals to individuals in need, the Macquarie team, led by Private Wealth head Earl Evans, Ravi Nagraj and Danielle Blair, organised raffles, lunches and a collection at Union Station. The record-breaking funds raised from this collective effort won staff a lunch cooked by celebrity chef Bob Blumer – but not being the types to miss an opportunity to raise more money, the team auctioned off the lunch as well! In recognition of his support for Second Harvest, Ravi was awarded the charity’s Committee and Event Volunteer of the Year Award, given annually to an individual who has shown outstanding dedication. In addition to spearheading efforts at Macquarie, Ravi has introduced Lunch Money Day to five other companies, secured over $8,000 in in-kind donations and sits on Second Harvest’s Toronto Taste Fundraising Committee. Earl Evans said the award was a great recognition of Ravi’s commitment to the charity. “We’re delighted that he encouraged colleagues to support this important cause,” he said. “It was also fantastic to see how staff rallied round to crack the $100,000 fundraising goal.” In New York, the Community Advisory Committee ran a sustained campaign in the second week of May organising a variety of initiatives to encourage staff to give to City Harvest. Prompted by the increasing demand for emergency food in NYC – a rise of 25% over the last four years – the Skip Lunch Fight Hunger campaign supports City Harvest’s fleet of 18 trucks and three bikes which rescue and deliver tonnes of excess food throughout the city and across the country. The week’s activities featured a brown bag day (donating the cost of a lunch), a pie day, a friendly donation request day and a jeans day. Skip Lunch office champion, MFG’s Stacey Zupnick, was at the centre of this organisational flurry. “Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger helps raise funds so that City Harvest can feed children during the summer months when free lunches aren’t available through schools,” she said. “So many people have rallied to support it and I’ve been so grateful for the champions in every business who helped us collect every last penny for the cause.” The NYC Macquarie team is hoping to be one of City Harvest’s top five corporate fundraisers, rewarded not only by seeing the Macquarie name emblazoned on the fleet’s vans but also the satisfaction of helping fill numerous empty stomachs. MACQUARIE IN THE COMMUNITY MACQUARIE IN THE COMMUNITY Macquarie set a fundraising record for Lunch Money Day in Toronto for local food rescue organisation Second Harvest. Pictured is BFS’s Ravi Nagraj, recipient of Second Harvest’s Volunteer of the Year Award, with BFS colleague Megan Sandhu. Issue Two // 2012 Chairman’s message In the year ended 31 March 2012, the Foundation and Macquarie staff provided $A21.3 million to more than 1,300 community organisations around the world. The Foundation contributed $A12.5 million, while staff sought matching from the Foundation for fundraising and/or donations amounting to $A8.8 million. I commend our staff for this excellent contribution. The Macquarie Group Foundation Board recently reviewed the Foundation’s objectives to ensure Macquarie’s global contribution to the community is effectively aligned to our goals and values. Our revised objectives are included overleaf. Richard Sheppard, Chairman United States

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Macquarie to the food rescue

When food rescue organisation Second Harvest asked Macquarie employees to skip lunch and help fight hunger in Toronto, they rose to the challenge, raising a record $100,000.

Second Harvest collects donated perishable food from restaurants, manufacturers and shops and delivers it to over 200 charities and community groups throughout Toronto. To enable Second Harvest to provide more than 200,000 meals to individuals in need, the Macquarie team, led by Private Wealth head Earl Evans, Ravi Nagraj and Danielle Blair, organised raffles, lunches and a collection at Union Station. The record-breaking funds raised from this collective effort won staff a lunch cooked by celebrity chef Bob Blumer – but not being the types to miss an opportunity to raise more money, the team auctioned off the lunch as well!

In recognition of his support for Second Harvest, Ravi was awarded the charity’s Committee and Event Volunteer of the Year Award, given annually to an individual who has shown outstanding dedication. In addition to spearheading efforts at Macquarie, Ravi has introduced Lunch Money Day to five other companies, secured over $8,000 in in-kind donations and sits on Second Harvest’s Toronto Taste Fundraising Committee.

Earl Evans said the award was a great recognition of Ravi’s commitment to the charity. “We’re delighted that he encouraged colleagues to support this important cause,” he said. “It was also fantastic to see how staff rallied round to crack the $100,000 fundraising goal.”

In New York, the Community Advisory Committee ran a sustained campaign in the second week of May organising a variety of initiatives to encourage staff to give to City Harvest. Prompted by the increasing demand for emergency food in NYC – a rise of 25% over the last four years – the Skip Lunch Fight Hunger campaign supports City Harvest’s fleet of 18 trucks and three bikes which rescue and deliver tonnes of excess food throughout the city and across the country.

The week’s activities featured a brown bag day (donating the cost of a lunch), a pie day, a friendly donation request day and a jeans day. Skip Lunch office champion, MFG’s Stacey Zupnick, was at the centre of this organisational flurry. “Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger helps raise funds so that City Harvest can feed children during the summer months when free lunches aren’t available through schools,” she said. “So many people have rallied to support it and I’ve been so grateful for the champions in every business who helped us collect every last penny for the cause.”

The NYC Macquarie team is hoping to be one of City Harvest’s top five corporate fundraisers, rewarded not only by seeing the Macquarie name emblazoned on the fleet’s vans but also the satisfaction of helping fill numerous empty stomachs.

Macquarie in the coMMunity Macquarie in the coMMunity

Macquarie set a fundraising record for Lunch Money Day in Toronto for local food rescue organisation Second Harvest. Pictured is BFS’s Ravi Nagraj, recipient of Second Harvest’s Volunteer of the Year Award, with BFS colleague Megan Sandhu.

Issue Two // 2012

Chairman’s message

In the year ended 31 March 2012, the Foundation and Macquarie staff provided $A21.3 million to more than 1,300 community organisations around the world. The Foundation contributed $A12.5 million, while staff sought matching from the Foundation for fundraising and/or donations amounting to $A8.8 million. I commend our staff for this excellent contribution.

The Macquarie Group Foundation Board recently reviewed the Foundation’s objectives to ensure Macquarie’s global contribution to the community is effectively aligned to our goals and values. Our revised objectives are included overleaf.

Richard Sheppard, Chairman

United States

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New community organisations supported

At its most recent meeting in May, the Foundation Board approved several grant applications for Macquarie Group Foundation funding. These included:

• Bell Shakespeare – Australia’s national Shakespeare resource, the organisation’s learning programs currently reach approximately 80,000 students a year through a variety of programs. Macquarie’s funding will support a two-year external evaluation project into the Bell Shakespeare Education Program to recommend areas of future funding.

• Inspire Foundation – more than 1 million visitors each year visit Inspire’s youth mental health service ReachOut.com, targeted at young people experiencing mental health difficulties. Macquarie’s funding will support the development, trial and evaluation of a technology-based self-help program.

• Islington Giving – based in the Macquarie London office borough of Islington, this is a campaign for local philanthropy which aims to increase the profile of need in the area as well as raise money to tackle poverty and create opportunity for local residents. Macquarie’s funding will support the establishment of a business forum, a local employment program and the expansion of an employee skills volunteering project.

• KidsXpress – providing an expressive therapy program using music, art and drama, KidsXpress works with children aged between 4-14 who have experienced significant trauma. Macquarie’s funding will provide a mobile therapy program located in the western suburbs of Sydney where there is a great need for this service.

• Older Adults Technology Service – OATS trains and supports senior citizens to use technology to meet health, social, financial, civic and creative needs. OATS works with more than 70 centres across New York City, has taught more than 11,000 free classes and given away more than 1,300 computers. OATS also maintains an online digital community. Macquarie’s funding will underwrite a lecture series, consisting of 10 gatherings each year, to help seniors use technology to improve their lives.

• Opportunity International – a microfinance charity which provides small loans to millions of people living in poverty in India, the Philippines and Indonesia, all countries in which Macquarie operates. Macquarie’s funding will support a capacity building project to gather and report on social data that will enable microfinance partners to improve their missions, including responsible delivery of services, reaching target clients and transforming clients’ lives.

• Po Leung Kuk – a major education and social service organisation, PLK has 230 service centres across Hong Kong providing welfare, educational, recreational and cultural services. Macquarie’s funding will support a sports program in the disadvantaged Tuen Mun area, providing young people with high quality rugby tuition and the skills, confidence and self-discipline to make the right choices on and off the sports field. The sessions will also be taught in English to improve language skills.

• The Big Issue – one of Australia’s most successful social enterprises, The Big Issue provides opportunities for homeless and marginalised people to positively change their lives through the sale of street magazines, a community street soccer program, social justice education and a subscription business. Macquarie’s funding will support a major event in Sydney during Anti-Poverty Week drawing special attention to the issues facing women living below the poverty line.

Note: Unless otherwise stated, all monies raised by staff mentioned in this newsletter include Macquarie Group Foundation matching and are denominated in local currency.

Foundation News

Macquarie Group Foundation objectives

What we aim to achieve:

The Macquarie Group Foundation supports not-for-profit organisations around the world, predominantly in the locations in which Macquarie operates. Our work is significantly influenced by the activities of Macquarie staff and as such our key objectives are to:

• • Support and encourage staff leadership and engagement in the communities where Macquarie staff live and work.

• • Contribute in skilled and sustainable ways to improve the performance and capacity of community organisations.

• • Build awareness of Macquarie Group staff activities and achievements in the community.

We seek to achieve these objectives by:

• • Supporting staff-led community activities and financially matching Macquarie staff personal donations and fundraising efforts.

• • Directing targeted funding to innovative and well-run organisations where Macquarie staff are involved through volunteering, pro bono skills transfer and in-kind support.

• • Recognising staff leadership and community commitment through staff community awards and internal and external communications.

Macquarie has had a partnership with Po Leung Kuk for some years: Pictured are PLK mentees at a graduation celebration with their Macquarie mentors last year.

MOT staff in New York City have been providing pro bono assistance to OATS since 2010; the charity now has a grant from the Foundation as well.

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3 Just a quick jog across the world’s largest desert...

The next time you’re feeling hot and sweaty at the gym spare a thought for Marc Thatcher who recently completed the Marathon Des Sables, a 151-mile marathon across the Sahara, for deprived children’s charity the Angus Lawson Memorial Trust. Not content with his efforts two years ago when he ran the Comrades Marathon dressed as a rhino (in aid of Save The Rhinos, naturally), Marc raised over £10,000 on this occasion. His total running time over the six-day event was a remarkable 33 hours and 34 minutes, placing him 115th out of 853 and 19th out of 255 British runners. What’s next Marc?

4 Filling COTS

“Seeing families with small children without a place to live or someone who doesn’t know where their next meal will come from inspired me to get involved with COTS,” said Macquarie Equipment Finance’s Denise Williams of Bloomfield Hills. So Denise championed the ‘Feed a Family’ food drive campaign to benefit the Coalition on Temporary Shelter (COTS), an organisation that alleviates homelessness by providing an array of services for people to achieve self-sufficiency and obtain quality affordable housing. Her colleagues donated canned food and non-perishables to help stock the pantry at COTS’ emergency shelter in Detroit and were rewarded with a volunteer-organised all-you-can-eat soup and salad lunch, the price of which was reduced for those who brought in food. In addition to the canned donations, the office raised $1,700 to support COTS’ efforts.

5 No item left behind

Staff across Asia have been busy cleaning out their cupboards to provide a variety of gently-used items to needy recipients. As part of World Earth Day’s recycling theme in April, clothes, books and small electrical items have been collected for the Beautiful Store in Seoul, Project Hammer in Singapore and the Mustard Seed Workshop and Project Hammer in Hong Kong.

6 Running with the Bulls... in Seoul?

Forget Pamplona, the most exciting bull running event took place in April in Seoul. Thirty one Macquarie staff participated in the sixth Annual Bulls Race to raise money for the KRX Happy Foundation. This is the philanthropic arm of the Korean Stock Exchange and focuses on free financial education, personnel training and various support programs in developing countries. The marathon, which 8,300 financiers participated in, raised a total of KRW198 million, the proceeds of which go toward developing children’s education infrastructure.

7 No trivial pursuits in Singapore

The lure of a helicopter joy flight, vintage wine quality artwork and - not least - the trivia acumen of MacCap’s Mark Warburton and Mark Dempsey, translated into a bonanza for Cambodian and Singaporean communities. In the very capable organising hands of BSD’s Kevin Hardy, the Singapore office held a trivia night in February to raise money for Project Hammer, incorporating seven Cambodian charities, and HOME (Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics). MCs Warburton and Dempsey demonstrated their trivia mastery by drafting the quiz questions themselves while the live and silent auctions also helped raise $48,000 ($24,000 for each cause).

8 Macquarie staff go all out for ReachOut!

Each week, Macquarie London volunteers mentor young people at the ReachOut! Academy, acting as positive role models and inspiring youth to aim high. Not content with mentoring alone, a team of Macquarie employees have also entered the ReachOut! Charity Cup 2012, a 5-a-side football tournament organised by 13- and 14-year-old boys from Hackney to raise money for ReachOut! The Macquarie side gave a great performance, winning one game and drawing two. Some of the mentors went a step further still, deciding to run the Brighton Half Marathon to also raise money for the charity. Half marathon participants were Jack ‘Boggis’ Stanley, Bernard ‘Bunce’ Mooney, Jamie ‘Bean’ Broom and Michael ‘Mick Dundee’ Varrall. Their endeavours have raised over £2,600 for ReachOut! this year.

9 MOT’s multi-marathon man

It’s not every day you wake up and decide to run 20 marathons across 20 Italian regions in 29 days. But after losing his mother to cancer last year, MOT’s Luca Turrini was determined to do something special in her honour and as at the end of May had raised $43,000 for the NSW Cancer Council. In total, Luca ran 844 km in less than a month despite some challenges. “A couple of times I got lost and added three to four kilometres to a marathon, I ran the last week on a injured and painful foot, once I ran out of water at seven kilometres to the end of the run and for a couple of days I ran alone in the heavy rain... But the lows were always followed by huge highs! In Sicily, I ran through giving high fives to everyone in the town centre and in Naples and Verona I had lots of support from locals with up to 50 people running with me.” Luca described it as a “truly magnificent experience” and something he will remember for the rest of his life. “All the hard work and pain from the month of running and 12 months of training and organisation was worth it. I would do it all over again if I could. It was not work but it was no relaxing holiday either!”

2 Purple haze: From left in support of Hong Kong’s epilepsy day are Thuy Nguyen, Wendy Yu and Elizabeth Cox.

3 Marc Thatcher at the end of the Marathon des Sables.

5 In Seoul, Justine Huh (not pictured) helped coordinate donated items for World Earth Day.

7 Macquarie trivia ambassadors, Jane Hewett, Tristine Soh, Kevin Hardy, and Desiree Pretorius attended a not-so-trivial fundraiser for two charities the Singapore office supports.

10 MOT’s Philippines-based Mike Quizon is making a difference for Hong Kong’s refugees.

11 Kalpana Desai, Alex Harvey and Shelley Boland led their team of Macquarie Hong Kong bankers to the top of the ICM fundraising board on behalf of underprivileged children in the Philippines.

13 Hitting the decks: Macquarie volunteers at the Access Worlds event in Sydney.

15 A cross-divisional Kiwi team undertook a cross-country adventure to raise money for sick kids.

1 Teaching tech-savvy teens

The delight on teachers’ faces as they unpacked donated computers courtesy of Macquarie Equipment Finance in Bloomfield Hills made a big impact on MEF’s Sean Johnston who helped organise the give-away. Prior to Macquarie’s donation, the Henry Ford Academy, in the local city of Dearborn, was using outdated and inadequate computers and books. In a school where more than half of the students are from families living below the poverty line, providing the right tools to foster an interest in science and technology and enable further training for the teachers is vitally important. Sean was pleased to report that as a result of the technology donation teachers are able to take much better advantage of the school’s focus on science. “From now on, they’ll be implementing interactive lessons and homework and using online aids to better match each student’s learning style. It’s amazing what the right technology can do for education,” he said. The school, which partners with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, won’t be discarding the old computers, instead utilising them as a means to teach students how to repair and rebuild computers.

2 Purple is the new black

Who wouldn’t want to indulge in lavender cupcakes solely for the purpose of philanthropy? The Hong Kong office took its participation in ‘Paint the Town Purple Day’, an international grassroots effort dedicated to increasing awareness about epilepsy, very seriously, with staff donning purple outfits to raise money as well as awareness. By publicly discussing epilepsy as a physical health condition, stigma around the disease lessens, myths are dispelled and those who suffer from epilepsy are reassured. Staff raised $8,250 for the charity Enlighten Action For Epilepsy.

Bloomfield Hills’ staff delivering computers to the teachers of the Henry Ford Academy.

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A bullish Macquarie Seoul team give the thumbs up for the KRX Happy Foundation marathon.

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London staff kick off with local Hackney boys at the 2012 ReachOut! Charity Cup.

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10 Volunteers without borders

Over 1,000 kilometres separates the Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre from Manila, but that didn’t stop MOT’s Philippines-based Mike Quizon from putting up his hand to help HKRAC with its marketing needs. The HKRAC needed some design and communications assistance to support a fundraising and awareness-raising photography exhibition for World Refugee Day, so Mike helped design a postcard invitation. “Having presented a paper in my Masters of International Studies degree on the plight of displaced persons, this topic is very close to my heart,” Mike said. “The more people are aware of the vulnerability of refugees and the issues confronting them regardless of race or geography, the more help we can generate and the more options we can explore to solve all refugee problems.” The HKRAC is the only charity dedicated to the provision of free legal services to refugees in Hong Kong applying for asylum at the UN Refugee Agency.

11 No detention for these bankers

Top Hong Kong financiers and lawyers battled it out recently to ‘stay out of detention’ in a major International Care Ministries’ fundraising event. Eleven staff made up the Macquarie contingent led by Kalpana Desai, Alex Harvey and Shelley Boland, raising more than $250,000 for ICM’s Scholar program which covers the cost of educating 5,000 underprivileged elementary students as well as scholarships. Particular congratulations to Kalpana who won the Fundraiser of the Night award. In total, Macquarie’s fundraising for the event has enabled 542 Filipino children to complete an additional year of school.

12 Stepping up the challenge for Cerebral Palsy Alliance

Foundation Head Lisa George, Foundation Board members James Hodgkinson and Tanya Branwhite and four other Macquarie teams all got physical for the annual Cerebral Palsy Alliance 20/Twenty Challenge in Sydney recently. The event, which includes a two-kilometre swim, four-kilometre kayak and 10-kilometre walk is a major fundraiser for the organisation, raising a record $500,000 in total in 2012. Funds raised are used to purchase vital equipment for CP patients, such as wheelchairs and sleeping aids. The Macquarie teams raised $100,000 at the challenge. For Lisa, the most memorable aspect of the day was the opportunity it afforded to spend time with people with people who are directly affected by CP. “On a 10-kilometre walk, you have plenty of time to hear those stories – there was a great sense of inclusiveness,” she said.

13 World-class event supports World Access

Eleven Sydney staff jumped at the opportunity to support the Macquarie 2012 International Access Class World and International Championships, spend a day on the water at Middle Harbour Yacht Club, and see some exciting sailing in early April. A world championship sailing event held every two years, Access Worlds is one of the few sporting opportunities where athletes with a disability compete on equal terms with and against able-bodied athletes. A rare sunny week between Sydney’s faux-summer and early onset winter delighted some of the world’s most highly decorated sailors who competed, among them Paralympians and world, national and European champions. The Macquarie volunteers helped launch and retrieve boats, assisted sailors in and out of their boats and made thousands of sandwiches for hungry participants. MOT Head Nigel Smyth, a Middle Harbour Yacht Club member, spoke at the regatta’s launch, which was supported by the Macquarie Group Foundation.

14 Leading the pack for the Battersea Dogs Home

It took a couple of weeks for Chris Pearce to de-frost after his Arctic adventure to raise money for the Battersea Dogs Home. The 2012 Arctic Dog Sledding Challenge is a seven-day, 200-kilometre challenge through the freezing wilds of Norway and during the trip Chris was responsible for feeding and harnessing his own team of huskies. The bond between man and dog proved essential in the hostile environment, which averaged minus 24 degrees Celsius (excluding wind-chill). Chris described the journey through mountains and endless frozen lakes as “simply epic and needless to say quite emotional”. He raised £4,500 for the charity that aims never to turn away a dog or cat in need of help.

15 Classic Kiwi tramp to cure kids

The eight Auckland staff taking part in the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race in the Hunua Ranges needed no GPS to find their way to raise $22,000 for research into life-threatening childhood illnesses. The Macquarie team, involving MSG, CAG and BFS staff, navigated their way to each checkpoint by running, hiking, swimming a river and mountain biking. To make things more challenging, the coordinates for the course were only provided half an hour before the start. The team finished in fifth place in the corporate division, recording a time of six hours and 53 minutes.

16 Fight night a big hit for Cape Town charities

For anyone wanting to live out a Mohammed Ali boxing fantasy, the inaugural Cape Town Financial Services Charity Fight Night held in March was the place to be. Organised by Macquarie’s Cape Town Community Advisory Committee, the event was a great success with ZAR100,000 raised for charity. MSG fighters Graham Crawford and Gerrit Wagener braved the ring, while a large contingent from the local office cheered them on. Proceeds were donated to the Bokamoso Education Trust, a South African education charity, and Chapel Street Primary School, which serves underprivileged children.

17 Balloons popped to fill rink dreams

“Going to Disneyland” is the number one wish Help Fill A Dream Foundation receives from kids with life-threatening health conditions, but whatever the ask the Vancouver charity has limited resources to see all requests through to fruition. This is where the committed work of Macquarie Private Wealth’s Victoria staff assists; their second annual ‘Rink of Dreams’ fundraiser took place over 24 hours from noon on Saturday March 31 at Bear Mountain Arena. Led by organiser Harp Sandhu, more than 200 skaters participated, raising $84,000. Highlights included the chance to win a prize by popping one of 200 balloons, chuck-a-puck to win Vancouver Canucks hockey tickets and a silent auction. Famous local hockey mascot, Marty the Marmot from the Victoria Royals, also made an appearance as a guest referee.

18 The kids are alright on this radio journey

A 10-month-old baby named Journey with a rare blood condition tugged at the heartstrings of five Macquarie Calgary staff recently, when they volunteered in a radio-thon to raise money for the Alberta Children’s Hospital. During their three-hour shift taking phone pledges as part of a multi-day live ‘Caring For Kids’ broadcast, BFS’s Jackie Clark, Gayle Elliott, Jen MacLean, Cathy MacLeod and Katie Morgan were part of a team which ultimately helped raise over $2 million. The Macquarie team themselves contributed $14,600, with Journey’s story of needing a blood transfusion every two weeks at the hospital making a particular impact when they met him. The live broadcast featured dozens of stories about children like Journey who have relied on the hospital’s state-of-the-art care.

MSG’s Graham ‘The Heat’ Crawford (in black) packs a punch for education underprivilege in Cape Town.

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The Macquarie Calgary team took a break from the phones on behalf of Alberta Children’s Hospital.

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CSG’s Chris Pearce with man’s best friend in Norway, part of a sledding fundraiser for disadvantaged dogs in London.

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For more information on Macquarie Group Foundation activities or to submit a story for the next edition please contact:

Kathryn O’Neal-Dunham +1 212 231 1241 [email protected] www.macquarie.com/foundation

Staff Snapshot

19 Wallets still opened without walk

A torrential downpour on April 1 matched an outpouring of support in the Houston office this year for those affected by HIV. Due to severe weather warnings issued by local authorities, the AIDS Walk team did not actually walk, but that didn’t dampen their fundraising efforts. Team Macquarie raised almost $4,000 to support the AIDS Foundation of Houston which helps people living with the disease.

20 One fine day

Early twentieth century civil rights activist Marcus Garvey once said that “progress is the attraction that moves humanity”. As Macquarie New York City staff can attest, a rundown park can be pretty depressing so it was fitting that a team of 30 employees converged on Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem to repair and re-paint the playgrounds and benches, and rejuvenate flower beds. With beautiful weather encouraging some to linger, the park received a full facelift, complete with a newly-painted water fountain which will be enjoyed by hundreds of children this summer. The event was part of the New York office’s annual overhaul of a recreational site in a disadvantaged NYC neighbourhood.

22 Levelling the field for children

It has become an annual tradition for Macquarie New York City graduates to select an innovative non-profit organisation and assist them however they can, whether through fundraising or volunteering. This year the graduates chose Level The Field, an educational sports mentoring program benefiting children in low-income communities in Washington Heights. Through the program, student athletes from Columbia University visit schools, develop team-building skills and invite mentee students to attend collegiate games so they can see communication, sportsmanship, teamwork and leadership skills in play. The graduates volunteered at Level The Field’s weekend sports clinics, and have also raised money for its annual Spring for Change fundraiser. Capitalising on the appetites of the staff at Macquarie’s New York office, the graduates sold pizza, ultimately raising $4,000 and securing Macquarie the title sponsorship of the event.

21 Freezin’ for a reason

Some people never learn. For the second year in a row, staff in the New York office had warm hearts and cold extremities as they plunged into the chilly waters of the Atlantic Ocean on Superbowl Sunday to support the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Rachael Land of RMG led ‘Team Holey Shark Bait’ in their bid to raise money for critically ill children. The five team members spent a very cold day at the beach, raising $6,500 for the charity.

23 FUNdraising in Philly helps local organizations thrive

Philly staff have recently been enjoying a spring tradition – creative and quirky fundraising drives to benefit multiple charities in which staff are involved. The drives, which take place over four weeks, have collectively been dubbed FUNdraising Month. This year had staff turn out in droves for a bake sale that saw every crumb eaten by 11:30am, while generous donors provided Phillies’ tickets for a raffle that raised more than $1,000 and popular jeans days helped push the fundraising total well above $9,000. Three charities benefited from this fundraising and the support of Macquarie fundraising teams: Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, HeARTS for Autism, and the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure bike race.

My day job is... Managing the Bank Loan Operations for Delaware Investments and supporting the PM’s from the Fixed Income team at Delaware Investments.

My community needs... Dedicated volunteers to bring awareness of the various issues facing folks with illnesses (American Diabetes, JDRF and Ronald McDonald House) and those less fortunate to take care of themselves or their families (Cathedral Kitchen / Kids Alley). Most of us at Macquarie are fortunate with good health and have the means to take care of our families. Many in our community are not as fortunate and we need our Macquarie family members to help out as much as possible by volunteering their time and resources.

I can help my community by... Leading by example with creative initiatives to raise money for charities. I’ve been fortunate enough to see how my two daughters have been engaged in community services while being creative in their fundraising efforts. This has inspired me to lead various initiatives to raise monies for a number of organizations in need of funds.

I’m most grateful... To see the smile on others’ faces when we’ve made a difference in the lives of those suffering with illnesses and those less fortunate. I know the efforts that I’m leading are making a difference in the community and that inspires me even more.

I got involved in my charities because... I want to help those folks suffering from illnesses and those less fortunate. There is a clear need for volunteers and in particular finding creative ways to help charities by raising funds for them.

Kishor DagaMFG, Philadelphia

Kishor is an advocate and fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association as well as serving on the Tour de Cure cycling event executive committee and assisting many other colleagues with fundraising.

Nicoleta Maxim at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, one of three charities supported by Philadelphia’s FUNdraising Month.

FMG’s Patricia Kelly and Tiffany Slater painting the town red for New York Cares Day.

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NYC graduates hydrate after Levelling The Field’s sports clinic.

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