Communities
It’s 21 years since ANZ established a corporate volunteering program and more employees than ever are volunteering their time to support local communities
Customers
After 160 years of operation, Coopers Brewery has stayed independent and true to its SA roots with ANZ as its partner.
Communities
After devastating floods, a group of Fijian workers volunteered to help with recovery and clean up. ANZ thanked the team for their help with tickets to see their national Super Rugby team.
Inside ANZ
ANZ’s regional executive details how digital technology and sustainability will help the Pacific recover
Communities
Skilled volunteers from ANZ are working with Berry Street, one of Australia’s largest independent family services organisations, to bolster recruitment and help more people become foster carers.
Communities
ANZ Ambassador Dylan Alcott reflects on his ground-breaking career in tennis and why it’s important to live with purpose.
Communities
A joint partnership between ANZ, DXC Technology, Ganbina and Vestone Capital has seen a donation of 30 refurbished laptops for Aboriginal youth looking to achieve their education goals.
Community & Purpose
ANZ is helping more of our customers understand our complaints process and what to expect when they lodge a complaint with our Complaints Guide - now available in Auslan and Easy Read formats.
Communities
Investing in technology allowed this animal welfare charity to continue fundraising through lockdowns.
Inside ANZ
Cybercrime is spreading with the pandemic. Cooperation between the ACSC and industry partners like ANZ is a vital protection against these threats.
Community & Purpose
2021 has seen the highest ever number of recruits to the Given the Chance program. Luisa* shares the impact the program has had on helping her start over.
Community & Purpose
As we celebrate IDPWD2021, Ability Fest could not have come a better time to empower people with disability as the country emerges from lengthy pandemic lockdowns.
Inside ANZ
Flexible working has allowed Danielle to pursue her interests, expand her knowledge and contribute to something close to her heart.
Communities
ANZ’s flagship financial wellbeing program continues to support vulnerable communities build money management skills, knowledge and confidence.
Inside ANZ
The Chief Executive Women-ANZ Sustainability Scholarships will help women leaders advance to more influential roles and accelerate sustainable outcomes in their field
Communities
As the pandemic changed the way we work and live, MoneyMinded continued to deliver financial education through digital and online channels to even more participants in India.
Communities
Each year we set public targets that reflect our ESG priorities, support the delivery of our business strategy and respond to our most material issues.
Communities
At-risk women are supported to build confidence and create a vision for their future through employment.
Customers
Building positive connections can help community members experiencing homelessness and disadvantage find their sense of self.
Communities
Daniel Gore is helping Bendigo's Karen refugee community to reach their dream of homeownership.
Communities
ANZ’s flagship financial wellbeing program Saver Plus reaches 50,000 participant milestone and assists lower income Australians to save more than $26 million for education costs.
Communities
Fire, floods, a global pandemic and more floods were not enough to dampen the spirit of communities in the mid-north coast of New South Wales.
Communities
Warddeken, an Aboriginal owned not-for-profit company, combines traditional ecological knowledge with Western science to manage and protect one of Australia’s most unique environments.
Community & Purpose
Sam Byrne, ANZ customer and member of a team that designs the ANZ App explains the importance of accessibility when it comes to banking.
Community & Purpose
Seasonal workers from the Pacific are making use of their time in quarantine in Australia’s north by learning new financial skills before starting work.
Inside ANZ
Ramin Rastin was separated from his wife and young son after fleeing Afghanistan. The Given the Chance program gave Ramin and his family the chance for a new life together in Australia.
Inside ANZ
After migrating from war-ravaged Sierra Leone, Virginia Walcott Taylor struggled to find work – until The Brotherhood of St Laurence and ANZ gave her the opportunity to start a new life.
Communities
The pandemic has further encouraged employers to consider how they can give back to society and really make a difference.
Customers
Meet the Aussie start-up on a mission to tackle the global single-use plastic problem. And keep you clean at the same time.
Community & Purpose
Talia Trimboli, ANZ school-based trainee, shares why she’s seizing all the opportunities that come her way.
Communities
Financial Counselling Australia’s CEO shares how we can best support those experiencing financial hardship.
Community & Purpose
After interviewing four candidates from the Given the Chance Program, ANZ Branch Managers, Fabian and Clare were so impressed they had to hire them all.
Community & Purpose
More than $318,000 was raised for charity at the ANZ Community Ball with funds to be divided between South Australian charities that provide vital services to the local community.
Communities
Social Enterprise Society Melbourne is helping to break the cycle of youth homelessness through financial literacy.
Community & Purpose
ANZ is a long-standing community partner of The Smith Family, an institution founded on the philanthropy of anonymous “Smiths”. Outgoing CEO Dr Lisa O’Brien reflects on a 10-year tenure and the legacy she hopes she has left.
Communities
Mardi Gras may have been a different experience this year, but the strength of the community is more powerful than ever.
Communities
People from minority communities need to be able to see people like them in the highest positions and know they too can make it.
Communities
The Smith Family highlights concerns around the impact of COVID-19 on students and families experiencing poverty.
Communities
Online financial education increases during COVID-19
Community & Purpose
Amid the turbulence of a pandemic, ANZ’s Meg Dalling reflects on a year of building confidence, capabilities and continuing the journey to greater accessibility and inclusion.
Communities
A new peer support program will bring tailored assistance to support to CFA employees in incident control centres across Victoria.
Inside ANZ
Benson Saulo is a Wemba Wemba, Jardwadjai, Weregia and Gunditjmara man. He started his career with ANZ, completing a school-based traineeship in the Tamworth branch. This year Benson made history by being appointed as Australia’s first Indigenous consul-general to the US.
Community & Purpose
A once in a lifetime pandemic highlights the importance of long-term saving habits, enabled by programs such as Saver Plus.
Inside ANZ
Cattle station, big cities, regional centres and rural towns; Courteney Kemp shares her journey and advice as she leads the next generation of women in Agriculture.
Communities
WIRE CEO shares the challenges for people experiencing family violence or financial hardship during the pandemic.
Communities
Tourism and hospitality-dependent towns must critically asses their current – and future – business to ride out the COVID-19 storm.
Community & Purpose
With increased business, comes more opportunity to invest back into the community.
Community & Purpose
As The Salvation Army faces the impacts of COVID-19, supporting the financial wellbeing of its people has never been more important.
Communities
Dr Lisa O’Brien, Chief Executive Officer of The Smith Family shares her views on the long-lasting effects COVID-19 will have on vulnerable children in Australia.
Communities
For single mother of two Menuka, accessing Saver Plus online has delivered unexpected benefits.
Communities
We asked The Smith Family’s CEO, Dr Lisa O’Brien, about how COVID-19 has impacted young Australians already living in poverty.
Communities
The outlook for the New Zealand property market has shifted abruptly in the last few months, as the country moved to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Communities
More than ever, digital accessibility is essential for people with disability and it brings benefits for everyone.
Communities
Government, citizens and ANZ’s team in Bengaluru are coming together to help the broader community who have been hit hard both financially and emotionally by the coronavirus pandemic.
Communities
A social enterprise built around personal connection, STREAT has been able to adapt to this period of unprecedented restriction on human contact.
Communities
ANZ will support community and charity organisations to continue their work with the disadvantaged in difficult times.
Communities
A $15,000 Seeds of Renewal grant will help Kangaroo Island’s Wheen Bee Foundation to save the island’s endangered Green Carpenter Bee population.
Communities
From arid land to a booming production economy, Mildura has endured many challenges but is still poised for growth.
Communities
The Australian bushfires devastated many local communities. Australians can help them rebuild - by going on holidays.
Communities
Sticks and stones aren’t the only things that hurt. Words can cause lasting harm.
Communities
Habitat for Humanity is helping to make housing affordable for Australians, one house at a time
Community & Purpose
Meet two of the brave ANZers who are helping to protect their communities in rural Australia.
Communities
Social enterprise STREAT demonstrates the importance of partnerships in driving change.
Communities
Older LGBTIQ+ Australians tend to go “back into the closet”, research shows. One dance club is bringing them back together.
Customers
Supporting drought affected communities in rural Australia
Community & Purpose
The inspiration behind Glenn Murcutt’s design of MPavilion 2019 came all the way from the historical, jungle-shrouded, southern Mexican site of Yaxchilán.
Communities
With the support of a $15,000 ANZ Seeds of Renewal grant, an indigenous theatre company was able to take its show to schools across 10 remote locations in North Queensland, allowing students to see their cultures and stories represented on stage.
Community & Purpose
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan left the coastal town of Minamisanriku in ruins. However, with help, they are rebuilding.
Community & Purpose
Improved financial wellbeing creates a positive impact for communities, according to new ANZ data.
Communities
Disability Discrimination Commissioner Dr Ben Gauntlett talks to ANZ’s Meg Dalling about the importance of changing societal attitudes toward people with disability in Australia and why the culture of silence surrounding disability in Australia needs to end.
Communities
The way we treat people with disability has a direct impact on how they are included in society. ANZ community partner, Attitude Foundation, is working to change mindsets.
Communities
No trackies required: mental fitness is all in the mind, says psychology educator.
Communities
Social and affordable housing are in great demand. Innovative bonds in Australia and New Zealand facilitated by ANZ are helping deliver more homes to those most in need.
Communities
Partnering with large corporates assists social enterprise STREAT in helping disadvantaged young people.
Inside ANZ
Reinventing ourselves – as a bank, a university or a charity – can be hard. But it’s what strategy is about – purpose, meaning and execution.
Communities
The Work Inspiration program provides the next generation with inspiring opportunities, proving regardless of background; a bright, bold future is within their grasp.
Communities
Banks can help play an important role in helping people in poverty and disadvantaged communities live to their full potential.
Communities
Sustaining more than 500 bird and plant species, rich in indigenous culture, the Great Cumbung Swamp is one of the largest surviving reed swamps in the Murray-Darling Basin. It needs protecting.
Communities
The clock is ticking for a small landfill island off the coast of Singapore.
Customers
Award winning, Broome based pharmacist Hannah Mann dedicates her work to improving the health of those living in remote communities.
Customers
Safcol CEO talks responsible fishing, innovation and doing business in Asia.
Communities
Sometimes you don’t have to go a long way to give back.
Communities
After North Queensland was ravaged by a major flood event, communities came together to rebuild.
Communities
Diverse and inclusive workplaces lead to benefits beyond financial.
Communities
The Given the Chance program helps refugees and asylum seekers find independence through work.
Communities
The Smith Family has dedicated almost a century to helping those in need, including young people and families.
Communities
Kiribati is facing a fierce battle with rising sea levels threatening to inundate the islands.
Communities
By working together, this organisation helps support women out of domestic and family violence situations.
Communities
Nine lessons from the Pacific on leadership and building trust
Communities
As many Pacific countries start to feel the economic burn of Covid-19, ANZ customers in New Zealand and Australia have rallied to send money home to family and friends.