LogicalTech Corporate Citizenship Program 

LogicalTech has a Corporate Citizenship Program to encourage individual and company wide responses to crisis and poverty affected people.

The program
Our program was established in 2004 to provide an encouragement for staff to join with the Company to help relieve people suffering from poverty and harsh circumstances. It is a team approach. LogicalTech wishes not only to encourage each staff member to express their compassion and concern in a practical way, but to give us, as a company of people, the opportunity to join with staff in effectively doubling their capability to provide financial assistance.

The program in action
So far we have had the privilege of partnering together in many diverse projects. These include assisting children in poverty stricken overseas countries in orphanages and poor villages, and young people in poverty to gain an education. There has been support for refugees in Australia, Christmas hampers, the Tsunami survivors in various regions, and in providing a micro economic trust bank in Philippines to allow perhaps 200 families by now to develop income producing businesses.

Sonya, one of our SysTalk team members is donating significant personal time and finance working with Spire International.  Spire International is a community development organisation who's objectives focus around poverty reduction and environment protection.  Spire works with local community groups at the grass roots level in the areas of health, eduction, income generation, conservation, agro foresty and emissions control.  Sonya is currently working on the ground in Cameroon, Africa on a SENTTI project ( http://www.sentti.org/) which is supported by Spire (http://www.spireint.org/)

Sonya and the team from Sentti have started up the only teacher training institute for special education in Cameroon.  "As many as 80% of children with a disability here will die before reaching adulthood, something that we are trying to impact through educational opportunities." says Sonya.  To read the latest from Sonya, click here.

We are keen to ensure this excellent work is also visible within the Group We do have a framework that governs our range of projects and people to support and an affordable limit. We believe this provides a flexible yet responsible framework to ensure the compassionate assistance that is offered and money that is donated will get to those in need. So it is our staff feelings, initiatives and preferences within this framework that our program endeavours to support.

Aim of the program
We hope that we are all increasingly responsive to crisis and poverty affecting people. We firmly believe that LogicalTech’s role however is to respect and value staff choices. We do not wish to promote individual agendas against other compassionate needs or direct staff choices. There are so many worthwhile initiatives and organisations to support that we think the best teamwork is achieved by supporting the initiative of our staff in accordance with the program framework.

LogicalTech Corporate Citizenship Framework
The LogicalTech Corporate Citizenship program matches staff donations to authenticated not for profit (NFP) organisations that

• Direct funds to alleviate the suffering or plight of the poor or significantly disadvantaged
• Do not discriminate on racial, political, ethnic or religious grounds as to who receives aid
  Work in an informed way with other governments or organisations to ensure the donations reach those in need
• Focus on maximising the impact of funds received to benefit individuals and communities beyond a welfare approach (eg assisting self sustaining endeavours, health and education rather than handouts)
• Work to foster dignity, health and human well being in those it serves
• Demonstrate financial accountability and operate within reasonable administrative cost ratios to maximise the distribution of funds received.

Based on these criteria, LogicalTech will match staff contributions dollar for dollar to nominated and selected organisations within reasonable allocations among a variety of projects and subject to available funds determined each financial year. Staff are invited to nominate their preferred recipient organisation and project. Management and staff input will be sourced on nominations via a nominated task group that will make recommendations. The final approval (especially in the event of more nominations than $’s available) is with the Directors of LogicalTech.