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Sponsorship
Turning your
travel costs into cash donations.
We sponsor many NGOs undertaking valuable work throughout
the entire world. From Colombia, Fiji, Zambia, Australia, South East Asia,
Africa, South Africa and more. We welcome applications from organisations who
desire sponsorship from our company. (see "Cash Sponsorship of Organisations"
link on this site).
Cash Sponsorship of Organisations, Churches, NGOs and others. How does it all
work?
Travel With A Cause Inc (TWAC) t/a Australian Discount Travel & Tours is a
not-for-profit organisation that by law, donates 100% of its annual company
profit to various projects throughout the world. Initially confined to
sponsoring humanitarian projects and emergency relief in OECD-recognised
"Developing Countries", TWAC has expanded its mission to include humanitarian
works (as approved by TWAC's Board of Directors) in the Developed World too and
other mission-based works.
Travel With A Cause Inc is a fully registered and insured international &
domestic Not-For-Profit travel agency. Travel With A Cause Inc. is also a
registered charitable overseas aid organisation that distributes goods, services
& financial assistance to OECD-approved "Developing Countries" and which is now
funding humanitarian projects in various Developed Countries like Australia too.
TWAC is now able to assist projects in Australia like supporting Aboriginal
communities & other missions-based (we support Youth With A Mission whenever
people booking through us nominate them as beneficiary or example) or
"love-driven" works. Our projects vary over time but are best summed up as "love
motivated". We choose to pay all debts except the debt of love - whether it's in
feeding the poor, empowering the under-educated, supporting Christian missions,
assisting projects designed to break the back of poverty, disaster relief,
health services, and funding other humanitarian & human rights work around the
world. We are not restrained by geographical boundaries (other than those
boundaries imposed on us by regional authorities). We retain a world-wide focus
in our corporate mission.
Here we list some of the major projects undertaken by us. If you'd like your
travel bookings to support any of these please click on the links and we'll show
you exactly how to ensure that your booking goes to assist the project of your
choice.
TWAC's Mission Statement
This Association is a Not For Profit
International Travel Agency & International Relief Agency.
Our company works not only in travel but it also carries capacity to
accept direct donations from the public in order to distribute through its
trust fund, financial assistance to its many projects.
Our development activities form part of a comprehensive, economic, social,
cultural and political process aimed at constant improvement of the
wellbeing of the entire population and of all individuals, on the basis of
their active, free and meaningful participation in development, and in the
fair distribution of the benefits that result from this process.
Many of our projects constitute development activities aimed to produce benefits
that will endure (a long term legacy) after our development assistance
have ceased.
Our overseas relief programs ensure provision of basic support to people in
emergency situations.
These are undertaken by organisations such are ARMS
(Australian Relief & Mercy Services - part of Youth With A Mission
[YWAM[). We specialise in
YWAM travel and
YWAM group travel and
one of our casual staff members is a well known YWAM leader, Christine Lucerne. Christine is vastly
experienced in missions-based travel bookings and her husband Rob
Lucerne, who is the Tasmanian State Director, YWAM also provides advice
and friendship with us. Rob and Christine Lucerne work from the Hobart
YWAM base. You only have to ask
us to donate to one of our sponsored YWAM bases when booking our travel and our audit trails will
do the rest. We donate 100% of our Net Profits (by law) to various
humanitarian and/or mission based projects around the world, including
of course YWAM.
Some of our projects are located in developing countries, as
defined by the Australian Government's Department of Immigration and
Foreign Affairs through its related AusAid
Department, that conforms to the list of countries ratified by the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD)
approved "developing countries"
lists. Note: The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has granted us
Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status
since 22nd May 2006. This means
we are able to offer Tax Deductible status to
some of our projects. Please call us for details for read below for
additional information. The related ABN is: 90 946 095 079
Likewise we choose
to server those organisations that we consider "make a difference" in
countries other than those designated by the OECD as "Developing
Countries". Hence our mission includes our ability to sponsor missions
undertaken by various groups undertaking services & support to Australian indigenous groups,
Camp Quality, YWAM, Fusion International and others. Please ask our
Board for details about the projects currently sponsored.
Whether or not you choose to travel to a developing country (and of
course we can arrange this for you), just by booking any travel through
our association, you will experience the satisfaction that when you
travel, you will be assisting people somewhere in the world who our directors
perceive are in great need.
What and who do we sponsor?
Our mission is to serve others who live in poverty in
developing countries. Our relief efforts focus on disadvantaged groups (as
opposed to individuals) who are in dire need of our assistance and without
such aid would face untoward medical, nutritional, social and/or financial
hardship. For this reason we sponsor & support schools, orphanages, and
small communities as opposed to individuals and/or family enterprises. The
only exception where we might consider sponsorship of a small business is
in cases where without our aid the issue would become one of life or death
(for example a widow in a developing country who would not be afforded any
government welfare assistance and who is without capacity to feed her
children might well qualify for aid to commence a small farm or business
venture sufficient to feed her children).
Our Credentials:
We are fully audited as per the lawful requirements of the Australian
Travel Compensation Fund (TCF).
TCF registration number:
7/9028
Australian Travel Agent's license number:
TAS156
Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) Number: 00002152
Australian Business Number (ABN):
350 960 171 66
(Tax-Deductible) "Travel With A Cause Overseas Aid Development Fund"
ABN: 90 946 095 079
Tax Deductibility (Australian
Residents)
Note: we currently offer Tax Deductible receipts for donations made to
several of our projects. This status (Deductible Gift Recipient - [DGR])
was granted to us from the Australian Taxation Department (ATO) as from
22nd May 2006. Our ABN for our Tax Deductible Overseas Aid Development
Fund is 90 946 095 079. This information may be confirmed on the
Australian Government's Australian Business Register. Once at the site a search
for "Travel With A Cause Overseas Aid Fund" will confirm
theses important regulatory details.
Note: Tax-deductible donations incur an administration fee of 10%. This
administration fee goes to our over-arching DGR-affiliated organisation
(World Relief Australia Inc.), through which we are afforded our DGR status.
World Relief Australia Inc provides
Travel With A Cause (and numerous other not-for-profit Australian Aid
Organisations) administrative, legal and advisory services in order for
smaller not-for-profit charities to
obtain and maintain DGR status with the Australian Tax Office.
For non-DGR donations, 100% of donated monies are sent to designated
projects. Further details can be obtained from
our directors via phone 61 3 6231 3844.
Wholesale Prices:
A number of our tours are offered at wholesale prices. This
means you not only receive personal satisfaction that when you book your
travel through us you are assisting developing nations, but you also get
value for money. However, we do ask you to consider donating the savings
gained when you take advantage of our wholesale prices (see Conferences,
Tasmanian Coach Tours, Queensland Tours for example).
Voluntary donations are not a pre-requisite to utilise our services. We simply
ask you to consider it. Even if you are unable to donate, the very fact
that you choose to book through us means that someone, somewhere in a
developing country will benefit. If you believe your organisation's
own projects would gain recognition from our Board please submit to us an
application. We note that in order to commence project sponsorship we require an
annual air-travel account of at least $30,000 p/a. This condition is subject to
change without notice.
The way to sponsorship is relatively simple:
Firstly, we require an application from your
organisation briefly outlining its background and
stating its aims, objectives and purposes.
It would be useful if your organisation clarified its
stance/policies on areas which take into account the
following policies of our own company and which
include:
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Our strong commitment to family, youth, & healthy
lifestyle
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Our unequivocal commitment to anti-discrimination
& Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO).
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Our opposition to organisations or persons
involved in discriminatory and/or unlawful behaviours
(in particular, travel-related).
Once we receive your application we will make a
decision on sponsorship.
If approved, for sponsorship your organisation will be
allocated a sponsorship code (called a "Tag").
Once approved and the tag allocated,
all your organisation has to do is to inform its
members, family & friends about our sponsorship offer
and inform these persons about the "tag"
name.
Whenever a person books travel through us, they only
need mention the tag at the time of booking
and we will automatically track the commissions earned on those sales.
During the year, the Board meets to evaluate profits
generated. Commensurate with the profits derived
from your "tagged" bookings profits will be
disbursed back to your organisation.
Note: Presently Tag sponsorship
can only be utilised when booking via phone or via
email, or fax with one of our consultants, as we
have no way of adequately auditing online
bookings made from our website other than if you email
us with your booking number.
We would consider
such behaviour unethical. In order to assuage the
fear of potential customers concerning this issue, we
permit the "tag" to be nominated after final
quotation but before deposit. In this way, your
members can be assured of receiving from us the very
best discount travel quotations.
We have in place a
sophisticated tracking system to
ensure that all sponsorship bonuses are paid. Our
company is fully audited and fully insured.
Clearly, the tag system works better if your
organisation efficiently promotes our agency as the
preferred travel agency of choice. In this way, we
increase our business and as a result, proportional
sponsorship automatically flows to your organisation.
If you have any further questions, please do not
hesitate to contract us.
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