Breast Cancer Network Australia
Case for Support 2024
Our goal: Respond to emerging priorities that matter to our network
Our goal: Support and grow our valuable volunteers
How your investment can help Over the next 12 months, we've developed a calendar that encourages our fundraising partners to align their support with specific appeals, including: • Giving Tuesday in early December 2024, focusing on living well with breast cancer and the benefits of exercise. • Our End of Financial Year Appeal in June 2025 focuses on making sure people at higher risk of breast cancer get access to the treatment and support they need.
How your investment can help Volunteering may be ‘free’, but our current systems for managing and supporting volunteers need enhancements to ensure we provide safe, meaningful, and inclusive experiences for everyone. We want to implement improvements to ensure we deliver a best-practice volunteering experience including more structured recruitment, training and supervision that allows us to accurately monitor the outcomes of volunteering activities, better support our individual volunteers and create a pipeline for future consumer leaders to ensure BCNA remains truly consumer-led. We will invest in ways that acknowledge the value of our individual volunteers, including during national volunteer events, and offer training and development to create a more meaningful volunteering experience.
Every generous donation has an impact. Unlike government funding to deliver specific programs, untied funding from individual donations gives us the flexibility to continue offering free information, resources and support services while responding quickly to emerging changes in breast cancer care, research and government policy. It allows us to adapt to the future needs of our members promptly. Our innovative Giving Days, where individual donations are matched by generous supporters, allows us to double the impact of individual generosity and – likewise – double the impact of what we can do. These matched giving campaigns accelerate donations and inspire strong participation, like the recent campaign that exceeded our fundraising goal by over 100 per cent! Matched giving can energise fundraising efforts and significantly increase community support while reactivating previous donors and attracting new supporters with an exciting and engaging fundraising experience.
The act of volunteering is a powerful act of service, and one which connects communities, offers tangible benefits to organisations, and provides intangible rewards to individuals through a sense of purpose and connection. This power is embodied by volunteers at BCNA. We currently engage approximately 500 active volunteers who contribute to BCNA in various ways, from sharing their lived experience in a variety of forums, to fundraising at community events and packing My Care Kits for people who have been newly diagnosed. Our volunteers bring diverse skills, perspectives, and lived experiences to our organisation and collectively support people impacted by breast cancer. Many have been diagnosed themselves or are family members of those affected. We aim to expand our volunteering network beyond Victoria and strengthen the foundations of our volunteering program, so we can be confident about growth, sustainability, and greater inclusion.
Investment opportunity: $120,000
Investment opportunity: $90,000
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