Local community partnerships
Foodbank Australia
Saputo Dairy Australia (SDA) is proud to be a national donor of Foodbank Australia.
Our ongoing support and dairy product donations help communities in need and addresses the issue of food security.
Our Devondale milk donations are distributed by Foodbank every week to hungry Australians, including school breakfast clubs to feed students. We donate additional dairy products as needed, including for Foodbank’s bushfire and flood emergency food relief programs.
We believe in building healthier communities and promoting healthy lifestyle habits. Working with Foodbank means we can help support over 2,840 front line charities, local community organisations and over 3,379 schools across the country.
View how our partnership with Foodbank Australia helped to change lives in our 2024 partner factsheet
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation
Saputo Dairy Australia (SDA) is pleased to be partnering with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation (SAKGF) to help provide children with skills and experiences that can lead to positive food behaviours throughout their life.
SAKGF is a not-for-profit charity that supports educators to deliver pleasurable food education to children across Australia. Pleasurable food education teaches children to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal, delicious food to form positive food habits for life. Our support helps deliver the program to over 1,000 Australian schools and early childhood centres.
The partnership reflects the heart of the Saputo values, which is our commitment to healthy living and nutrition.
Legacy Program
We are committed to the communities where we operate. As part of this commitment, we invest in improving the quality of sport and health facilities with the objective of building a lasting legacy. Such local projects enable us to promote a healthier lifestyle for families and make a meaningful contribution within the communities where our employees live, work and play.
Since 2018, these are the projects we have committed funds to:
- Cobram Community Soccer Complex
- Kiewa Sandy Creek Netball Club
- Leongatha Football Netball Club
- Maffra Football Netball Club
- Allansford-Panmure Cricket Club
- Warrnambool City Council Wayfinding Project
- Dederang-Mt Beauty Football Netball Club
- Cycling Without Age
- Meeniyan Dumbalk United Football Club
- Burnie Netball Association
- Kiewa Cricket Club
- Purnim Recreation Reserve
If you would like to be considered for our Legacy program, please visit our sponsorships section below.
Building Strong Communities
As part of our commitments to the communities we operate, we believe investing in improving programs, services and equipment will help build strong, resilient and thriving communities. Stronger communities will lead to a stronger dairy industry in Australia.
The Building Strong Communities Program aims to support organisations whose focus is:
- Disaster preparedness, relief and recovery
- Development of sustainability initiatives in local communities
- Development of community dairy education and related programs
Projects must benefit the broader community and serve to enhance the sustainability of the dairy industry.
Projects we have committed funds to include:
- Agritas: Duck River Meadows Dairy – school visitation program and community open days
- Maffra Golf Club – irrigation project
- Corryong and District Memorial Public Hall – multi-purpose hall refurbishment project
If you would like to be considered for our Building Strong Communities Program, please visit our sponsorships section below.
Sponsorship Requests
- Non-profit organisations with a mission of promoting healthy living initiatives.
- Projects must have definable and measurable social outcomes.
- Projects must be rolled out in Australia, Canada, the United States, Argentina or the United Kingdom.
If your project is within our scope and meets our selection criteria, we invite you to submit a sponsorship request through our online submission form. An email confirmation will be sent when your request is successfully received.
Please note that we cannot a guarantee a response for submissions which fall outside the scope of our objectives or do not meet our sponsorship criteria. Please allow 6 to 12 weeks for the evaluation of sponsorship requests.
EXCLUSIONS
Please note that any request made less than six (6) weeks before the event or project start date may be refused. We do not provide support for projects which are personal, artistic, religious or political in nature.
