Stories

100 stories of giving

Every woman’s experience of giving is different so what could be better than sitting down for a chat with women from all over Australia to hear their story? These incredible women open their hearts and share their personal experiences with giving and hopes for the future with us. We ask the same four questions each time. Each woman’s answers are surprising, inspiring and uniquely hers.

Lyn Beazley AO

Giving doesn’t always have to mean a large amount of money. If you have lots, give lots, but you can give a small amount and then leverage it. I call it the dollar on a string. You put it out there and you get a matching dollar and then you put it out again and get another matching dollar and you just keep building like that.

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Lucy & Kristie Steggles

It’s a balance between honouring the legacy and causes that our family has supported, while bringing in new areas to support.

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Fiona McLeay

For me, giving is a discipline, a practice. I'm big on these kinds of virtues being things that you just do, in the same way we make sure we eat enough vegetables and get enough exercise.

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Gina Fairfax AC

It is very important to talk and become involved with like-minded people to share stories and experiences to help others realise the benefits of giving.

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Courtney Talbot

It is hard to stand up for what you believe in when you're a young female voice just starting out in giving. But every year, the more I give, the more I get involved with organisations, the more my confidence grows.

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Peggy Flannery

Starting Peggy’s Place has been my greatest learning experience in giving. It’s shown me how something can grow from a small dream into something substantial. I hope it will have a significant impact on the lives of many women and children.

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Alex Dimos

Most of our giving goes to South Australia, because it’s our way of giving back to a place that was incredibly generous to us.

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Tania Austin

As soon as people know more, they want to do more. A big part of our work is this story-telling component and involves not just our internal team but our broader teams across our entire store network.

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Georgina Byron AM

When I first came into this giving sector, I had so much to learn. I came from the corporate world, so I did a lot of listening and learnt more about humility and the power imbalance of a funder.

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Rebecca Cuthill & Nichola Harris

What’s interesting about intergenerational learning around giving is that the way that our parents give and their thinking around it, is different to what Rebecca and I would be doing. And now we're being challenged by our children about how we do it.

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Prof. Larissa Behrendt AO

Giving means different things in different areas of my life. My husband and I give to our extended family.

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Natalie Egleton

The motivation behind giving in regional communities is connected to place. It’s connected to a collective desire to make it the best place possible and create the most opportunities for people.

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