COMMUNITY GRANTS

Asia Pacific corporate responsibility grants

The corporate responsibility team is pleased to share that there have been several successful grant applications across the Asia Pacific region in 2021.

The Cummins Foundation has awarded more than $75,000 to partner organisations to assist with their projects, in addition to employee volunteering. Please look through some of our successful grantees, there may even be some inspiration for an organisation in your community to which we can grant in 2022.

Australian Street Aid Project

The Australian Street Aid Project aims to tackle homelessness head on by providing people with paid employment and training in retail, warehousing and hospitality. Additional support services include accommodation, meals and other services to provide high-quality care for people experiencing homelessness. Based in Mackay, Queensland, Australian Street Aid Project runs Chances Café, a non-profit homelessness employment initiative, and is a fast-growing organisation providing a range of assistance in the community.

Supporting and Linking Tradeswomen (SALT)

SALT provides a support network for tradeswomen, apprentices and women who wish to enter trades through: support and mentoring, providing ways for women to meet and support each other, promoting women and diversity for all people in the trades, and campaigning for changes that enable women to enter trades.

The Cummins grant will assist SALT Australia with the continued roll out of its in-school trade workshops for girls aged 9-15 years. Cummins Australia has a long history with SALT Australia with many female staff being SALT members and attending workshops.

Queensland Manufacturing Institute (QMI)

QMI is working to ensure future growth and success for the manufacturing industry in Queensland. QMI works with industry to upskill and attract staff, and create ideas, jobs and opportunities. Cummins has given grants to support the Women Who Weld and Cre8tive Dreamtime workshops. The Women Who Weld grant will see the Queensland program expanded to 15 more schools/workshops in 2021-2022, with the hope of attracting more female students to vocational trade pathways. This follows huge success for the program in 2020-2021 across Queensland that Cummins branches have supported. The Cre8tive Dreamtime meet the makers workshops grant will see the development and facilitation of two workshops in Mackay and Townsville. The workshops are one-day cultural education experiences for primary school students to learn how some of the oldest technologies, instruments, weapons and structures on earth were created, designed and built by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The grant also supports Indigenous communities to learn how to deliver the content to schools in the future.

Stars Foundation

Stars supports Indigenous girls and young women to attend and remain engaged at school. The holistic program to support completion of year 12 and move towards full-time work or further study is based on strong relationships and providing a culturally safe environment for Indigenous young women. Stars mentors provide activities that support participants and help them develop self-esteem, confidence and life skills.

Chosen Children Village Foundation

The Chosen Children Village provides a unique care environment for disabled children, and family settings for abandoned children with mental and physical disabilities. Providing a happy and therapeutic environment for children is part of growing their capabilities and self-esteem, helping them to become productive, self-reliant members of society.

Pertubuhan Kebajikaan Jayaa Sri

(loosely translated as Welfare Association Jayaa Sri)

This organisation is based in Kajang, about 20km from the Puchong CSSB office, and looks after homeless disabled people and underprivileged elderly and children. It runs short of funds to pay for daily food expenses, buy equipment for the disabled, and pay rent for its premises.