Statistical Survey

Many thanks for participating in ACFID’s Statistical Survey. ACFID understands that the survey represents an added reporting burden to members so we appreciate your time and efforts.

This is the guidance for the 2022 ACFID Annual Statistical Survey. The guidance includes general survey information, general survey guidance and guidance for specific parts and questions. We have provided a table of contents below to help you navigate the guidance and jump to specific parts. You will also be able to access specific parts of the guidance when completing the survey, through hyperlinks in the survey template.

Any questions regarding this guidance or the survey, please do not hesitate to contact ACFID on [email protected]

Table of Contents

1. Survey Information
   • • What is the purpose of the Survey?
     • How will the results of the Survey be used?
     • How long will it take?
     • Who should I contact with questions?
     • Data Privacy
2. General Guidance
   • • How to login to the portal?
     • Navigating the portal
     • Navigating the survey
3. Guidance for specific parts and questions
   • • Survey Part A: Organisational Data of ACFID Members
       • Section 1 – Q1: Is your organisation approved by DFAT for the Overseas Aid Gift Deduction Scheme (OAGDS)?
       • Section 1 – Q2: Does your organisation have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Status?
       • Section 2 – Q6: What is the number of senior managers below the head of agency?
       • Section 2 – Q8: How many of your employees are permanently based outside of the city of your head office?
       • Section 3 – Q1: Is your organisation implementing a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)
       • Section 3 – Q1: Does your organisation undertake any other initiatives towards reconciliation with First Nations people? Please comment here
       • Section 3 – Q2: If you monitor cultural diversity – What percentage of your board are from a culturally diverse background? (That is, Board members who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, or who are from a non-Anglo/non-European cultural background, including mixed heritage background)
       • Section 3 – Q3: Do you enable formal representation from developing countries on your Board? If yes, how many Board members are from developing countries? (If no- please leave response blank)
       • Section 3 – Q3: Do you have any other regular, formal input into your governance structures from developing country stakeholders?
       • Section 3 – Q4: If you monitor cultural diversity – What percentage of your total staff body are from a culturally diverse background? (That is, staff who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, or who are from a non-Anglo/non-European cultural background, including mixed heritage background)
       • Section 3 – Q4: If you monitor cultural diversity – What percentage of your staff at an executive, senior or management level are from a culturally diverse background? (That is, staff at an executive, senior or management level who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, or who are from a non-Anglo/non-European cultural background, including mixed heritage background)
       • Section 5 – Q7: What Business Intelligence tools are you currently using?
       • Section 6 – Q2: Has your organisation signed on to any localisation commitments?
       • Section 6 – Q3: Is your organisation taking steps to progress localisation/promote locally-led responses in any of the following areas?
       • Section 6 – Q5: What percentage of your projects are delivered through local partners?
       • Section 6 – Q6: What percentage of your projects are delivered via your agency’s country offices?
       • Section 6 – Q7: What percentage of your projects are delivered primarily by your agency based in Australia?
     • Survey Part B: Development and Humanitarian Projects supported by ACFID Members
     • Reporting Period and Financial Year
     • Naming Conventions
     • Countries
     • Regional program
     • Global program
     • Sector
     • Project Name
     • Funding Source
     • Survey Part C: Humanitarian Response
     • Reporting Period and Financial Year
     • Section 1 – Q(a) Did you run a humanitarian appeal in the financial year listed above?
     • Survey Part D: Support & Financial
     • Reporting Period and Financial Year
     • Section 1 – Q1: How many individual financial donors did your organisation have during the year, either from direct giving or giving through events?
     • Section 1 – Q2: How many corporate donors did your organisation have during the year?
     • Section 1 – Q3: How many corporate partnerships did your organisation have during the year?
     • Section 1 – Q4: What is the number of unpaid volunteers in your organisation in Australia during the last year?
     • Section 1 – Q5: How many unpaid volunteers did your organisation send overseas?
     • Section 2 – Revenue
     • Section 2 – Expenses

1. Survey Information

What is the purpose of the Survey?

The purpose of the ACFID Annual Statistical Survey is to build a comprehensive picture of Australia’s international aid and development sector. The survey will collect information about how Australian aid and development NGOs work, where they work around the world, and the level of public support they receive. The annual data survey is the only one of its kind in Australia and is vital to ensure the contribution of Australian NGOs is captured and explained to the Australian Government and the public.

In particular, data from the survey informs ACFID’s political advocacy to DFAT, other government departments, and the Australian public, and is used by research institutions and think tanks to inform their understanding of the sector. In the current political landscape, there is increased need to provide evidence on the work of ACFID members, and to identify the level of public support that the sector generates. Having robust data on the breadth and depth of members’ work enables ACFID to tailor messages to external stakeholders and to ensure the interests and work of our members are safeguarded.

How will the results of the Survey be used?

Once the survey results are collected from members, ACFID will aggregate and analyse the data to identify longer-term trends in the sector. The data is then worked into a series of tables, graphs and infographics that are published in ACFID’s Annual Report. The development and humanitarian project data (organisation, country, sector and project name only) is used on ACFID’s website on the online Interactive NGO Aid Map.

The aggregated data will also be used in future State of the Sector Reports that aim to provide a comprehensive and robust analysis of the state of the Australian aid and development sector. You can see the latest State of the Sector here.

ACFID also uses the data in meetings with the government and various other stakeholders to provide a snapshot of ACFID’s members work using the data collected in the survey.

The aggregated data is also reported to the Australian Bureau of Statistics and DFAT and becomes an important contribution to the Government’s Overseas Development Assistance statistics.

How long will it take?

The amount of time needed to complete the survey will depend on the size of your organisation and the number of development programs that your organisation supports.

ACFID appreciates that for every member the survey represents an added reporting burden and we therefore encourage members to contact ACFID for further clarification on the scope of the survey or for questions regarding how to complete the template.

Member feedback is very important to us and we hope to continue to improve the Annual Statistical Survey process and results. We therefore welcome and encourage any feedback from members.

The deadline for submission on the survey is 15 July 2022.

Who should I contact with questions?

Please don’t hesitate to contact Aina Studer at [email protected] or on 02 8123 2250. As we are mostly working from home, please leave a voicemail or send us an email with your contact details and we will get back to you.

ACFID is running the survey through a new system this year for better user experience and data analysis capabilities so please let us know if you are experiencing any issues due to that or would like any further guidance on how to navigate the new template.

Data Privacy

Your survey data will be handled with utmost confidentiality and the data will be stored appropriately. ACFID will not publish confidential and disaggregated data collected in this Statistical Survey. The only disaggregated data published is on the Interactive Aid Map on ACFID’s website, which identifies a member’s project name, sector and country. Please let us know if your organisation does not wish to appear on the map.

General Guidance

This year, ACFID is running the survey through a new online statistical survey portal. This is to hopefully make it easier and more user-friendly for our members to participate in the survey. Please contact ACFID at any time – should you have any issues/questions/feedback on the new survey format. We provide some general guidance below to help you navigate the new portal and the survey questions.

How to login to the portal?

Please login using the credentials sent to you by ACFID in the email with the subject ‘ACFID Statistical Survey 2021 – Template and Guidance’. The account is a shared account for all staff within your organisation. Please forward the credentials and our email to any staff member that will need to complete parts of the Statistical Survey. If you have misplaced your password or would like to reset it, please contact ACFID. Please contact ACFID on [email protected] or 02 8123 2250 with any issues/questions.

Navigating the portal

• To access the survey template, click ‘Open My Survey’ on the front page and enter the login details provided to you when prompted.
• You will be able to go in and out of the portal. Ensure you click ‘Save and Next’ before exiting the page to save your answers.
• You can re-access your draft survey by clicking on your organisation’s name in the top right corner and selecting the ‘My Surveys’ menu item rom the dropdown.
• The ‘My Surveys’ menu item will show you a table with your organisation’s draft or submitted statistical survey. Each organisation should only have one draft or submitted survey per financial year. If you have been asked to complete some questions in the statistical survey please open the draft survey in the table. Please only click on ‘Create’ if the table displays ‘There are no records to display’. This means that your organisation hasn’t started the survey yet and you will need to create a draft. All staff members of your organisation will be able to see and contribute to the same draft survey once started.
• Several staff members can login to the portal with the login details provided and complete different parts of the survey. Ensure that each staff members clicks ‘Save and Next’ to save their answers before proceeding to the next section or exiting the page.

Navigating the survey

• There are four parts in this survey. Please ensure you complete all four parts before submitting. Some questions are mandatory and the portal will let you know before submitting if you have missed a mandatory question.
• Where there are dropdowns – please only select from the dropdown options. In Survey Part B – you will be required to download an Excel template and resubmit it once completed. If you need any of the dropdown lists in order to amend your data – please see the data naming convention files here.

3. Guidance for specific parts and questions

Survey Part A: Organisational Data of ACFID Members

Part A will gather current organisational information such as general information, number of employees and volunteers, governing structures and banking-related questions. We ask that you report with current information at the time of completion. Please see specific guidance for some of the questions below. You will also be able to access the specific guidance when you complete the survey by clicking on the hyperlink next to a question.

A.1 – Q1: Is your organisation approved by DFAT for the Overseas Aid Gift Deduction Scheme (OAGDS)?

Asks members whether they are currently approved by DFAT for the Overseas Aid Gift Deductibility scheme. OAGDS enables approved Australian organisations to issue tax deductible receipts for donations made to support their overseas aid activities

More information available here on DFAT’s website.

A.1 – Q2: Does your organisation have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Status?

Asks members whether they have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Status. Organisations who are endorsed by the ATO or named in tax law as DGR may receive: tax deductible gifts such as financial donations and tax deductible contributions

More information available here on ANCN’s website.

A.2 – Q6: What is the number of senior managers below the head of agency?

Asks members to indicate the number of senior managers below the head of agency. ACFID defines senior managers as the management level that is directly below and that reports to the Head of Agency. Senior managers or senior executives would have staff below reporting to them. They represent the senior leadership group and directly support agency heads in achieving the goals of the agency.

Note: If your agency has a flat organisational management structure below the Head of Agency for eg. Head of Agency and senior officers/officers below ie. two tiers, please answer 0.

A.2 – Q8: How many of your employees are permanently based outside of the city of your head office?

This question asks how many of your total employees are based permanently outside of the city of your head office/your main office in Australia. This would include any employees based permanently overseas or in another city in Australia. Please include all employees – whether full-time; part-time; casual or on contract.

If you do not have any staff based outside of the city of your head office/main office then please answer 0.

This is an optional question

A.3 – Q1: Is your organisation implementing a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)

This question asks whether your organisation is implementation a Reconciliation Action Plan through the Reconciliation Australia’s RAP Program. A Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is a strategic document that supports an organisation’s business plan. It includes practical actions that will drive an organisation’s contribution to reconciliation both internally and in the communities in which it operates. There are four types of RAP that an organisation can develop: Reflect, Innovate, Stretch, Elevate. Each type of RAP is designed to suit an organisation at different stages of their reconciliation journey.

Find more information on Reconciliation’s Australia website here.

A.3 – Q1: Does your organisation undertake any other initiatives towards reconciliation with First Nations people?

This question asks whether your organisation is undertaking any other initiatives towards reconciliation with First Nations people – other than a formal Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). Your organisation may have a statement or plan towards reconciliation instead of or in addition to a formal RAP.

A3 – Q2: If you monitor cultural diversity – What percentage of your board are from a culturally diverse background? (That is, Board members who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, or who are from a non-Anglo/non-European cultural background, including mixed heritage background)

Following the resolution on diversity and race passed at the 2020 AGM, ACFID (in coordination with the Racial Justice Community of Practice) will collect data on cultural diversity in leadership and staffing levels through its Statistical Survey. The resolution calls on board and senior leadership to build greater representation, participation and access to decision making with peoples of varied cultural origins from countries, cultures, communities and peoples that members seek to serve and work with (See Resolution 1-2020 here).

This question asks your organisation for the percentage of culturally diverse people on your board. ACFID is aiming to collect data from its members on the number of board members that:

1. 1. Identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
   2. And/or identify as having a non-Anglo or non-European cultural background
   3. And/or identify as being from mixed heritage (for example a board member that identifies as being Australian/Ethiopian).

If your organisation would like further information on how to collect cultural diversity data we recommend looking into the resources from the Diversity Council of Australia: Counting Culture: Towards A Standardised Approach to Measuring and Reporting on Workforce Cultural Diversity in Australia or D&I 101 – Collecting Diversity Data (DCA member-only resource).

If your organisation does not have data on cultural diversity within your organisation yet – please leave the response blank.

Note on terms: Given the current use and understanding, we use the term ‘culturally diverse’ in this survey. We understand that this term is not perfect or acceptable to everyone.

This is an optional question.

A.3 – Q3: Do you enable formal representation from developing countries on your Board? If yes, how many Board members are from developing countries?

This question asks whether your organisation has Board members that are based outside of Australia and are from countries and cultures where you work. If yes, please include the number of Board members on your Board.

This is an optional question. Please feel free to add any comments or examples into the comment box under the question.

A.3 – Q3: Do you have any other regular, formal input into your governance structures from developing country stakeholders?

This question asks whether your organisation enables any regular, formal input into your governance structures from individuals based outside of Australia and that are from countries and cultures where you work. This may include input into the Board, governance subcommittees, other reference groups.

This is an optional question. Please feel free to add any comments or examples into the comment box under the question.

A.3 – Q4: If you monitor cultural diversity – What percentage of your total staff body are from a culturally diverse background? (That is, staff who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, or who are from a non-Anglo/non-European cultural background, including mixed heritage background)

Following the resolution on diversity and race passed at the 2020 AGM, ACFID (in coordination with the Racial Justice Community of Practice) will collect data on cultural diversity in leadership and staffing levels through its Statistical Survey. The resolution calls on board and senior leadership to build greater representation, participation and access to decision making with peoples of varied cultural origins from countries, cultures, communities and peoples that members seek to serve and work with (See Resolution 1-2020 here).

This question asks your organisation for the percentage of culturally diverse people on your staff body. ACFID is aiming to collect data from its members on the number of staff that:

1. 1. Identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
   2. And/or identify as having a non-Anglo or non-European cultural background
   3. And/or identify as being from mixed heritage (for example a board member that identifies as being Australian/Ethiopian).

Please include all employees – whether full-time; part-time; casual or on contract.
If your organisation would like further information on how to collect cultural diversity data we recommend looking into the resources from the Diversity Council of Australia: Counting Culture: Towards A Standardised Approach to Measuring and Reporting on Workforce Cultural Diversity in Australia or D&I 101 – Collecting Diversity Data (DCA member-only resource).

If your organisation does not have data on cultural diversity within your organisation yet – please leave the response blank.

Note on terms: Given the current use and understanding, we use the term ‘culturally diverse’ in this survey. We understand that this term is not perfect or acceptable to everyone.

This is an optional question.

A.3 – Q4: If you monitor cultural diversity – What percentage of your staff at an executive, senior or management level are from a culturally diverse background? (That is, staff at an executive, senior or management level who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, or who are from a non-Anglo/non-European cultural background, including mixed heritage background)

Following the resolution on diversity and race passed at the 2020 AGM, ACFID (in coordination with the Racial Justice Community of Practice) will collect data on cultural diversity in leadership and staffing levels through its Statistical Survey. The resolution calls on board and senior leadership to build greater representation, participation and access to decision making with peoples of varied cultural origins from countries, cultures, communities and peoples that members seek to serve and work with (See Resolution 1-2020 here).

This question asks your organisation for the percentage of culturally diverse people on your staff body. ACFID is aiming to collect data from its members on the number of staff that:

1. 1. Identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
   2. And/or identify as having a non-Anglo or non-European cultural background
   3. And/or identify as being from mixed heritage (for example a board member that identifies as being Australian/Ethiopian).

Please include all employees – whether full-time; part-time; casual or on contract.
If your organisation would like further information on how to collect cultural diversity data we recommend looking into the resources from the Diversity Council of Australia: Counting Culture: Towards A Standardised Approach to Measuring and Reporting on Workforce Cultural Diversity in Australia or D&I 101 – Collecting Diversity Data (DCA member-only resource).

If your organisation does not have data on cultural diversity within your organisation yet – please leave the response blank.

Note on terms: Given the current use and understanding, we use the term ‘culturally diverse’ in this survey. We understand that this term is not perfect or acceptable to everyone.
This is an optional question.

A.5 – Q7: What Business Intelligence tools are you currently using?

This question asks what Business Intelligence (BI) tool your organisation currently uses. A Business Intelligence (BI) tool is a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyse, transform and report data for business intelligence.

If your organisation does not use a BI tool, please leave the response blank.

A.6 – Q2: Has your organisation signed on to any localisation commitments?

This question asks whether your organisation has signed onto any localisation commitments:

• External localisation commitments include for example the Grand Bargain, Charter for Change, other international or regional commitments
• Internal localisation commitments include any policy on localisation or local partnerships – please feel free to describe in the comment box below

This is an optional question.

A.6 – Q3: Is your organisation taking steps to progress localisation/promote locally-led responses in any of the following areas?

This question asks if your organisation is taking steps to progress localisation in the below areas. Please find examples for each area here:

• Relationships: this may include reviewing partnership practices in line with localization principles, seeking to strengthen the voice, power and decision-making responsibilities of local partners, enabling two-way feedback on the partnership and ways of working
• Funding: this may include, for example, increasing the proportion of funding which goes to local partners, supporting the financial independence of local partners, enabling local partners to have quick & direct access to funding, enabling local organisations to exercise independent financial decision making within projects or programs, increasing budget and contracting transparency, ensuring overhead and renumeration rates are adequate and equitable
• Risk management and compliance: this may include, for example, adopting models to share or co-locate risk, equipping local partners to meet donor and international requirements on finance, child-protection, anti-terrorism and quality
• Strategic and institutional issues: this may include changing governance arrangements to support increased local leadership, actively promoting local staff, reviewing fundraising models, reviewing the requirements of federated NGO structures to support localization, considering the impact localisation has or will have on traditional INGO business models
• Relevant and targeted capacity support: this may include providing support for needs identified by local partners themselves to increase their skills, capabilities or resilience at an individual or organizational level
• Reporting & MEL: this may include supporting local partners to actively participate in reporting and MEL, considering local understandings of concepts of ‘success’, ‘effectiveness’ or ‘accountability’ in MEL processes, including localization indicators in MEL activities, or reviewing reporting requirements and MEL activities to support localization principles or objectives.

This is an optional question

A.6 – Q5: What percentage of your projects are delivered through local partners?

This question asks what percentage of your total projects are delivered through local partners in country.

If you do not implement projects through local partners please leave the response blank.

This is an optional question

A.6 – Q6: What percentage of your projects are delivered via your agency’s country offices?

This question asks what percentage of your total projects are delivered through your organisation country offices.

If you do not have country offices or do not implement projects through country offices please leave the response blank.

This is an optional question

A.6 – Q7: What percentage of your projects are delivered primarily by your agency based in Australia?

This question asks what percentage of your total projects are delivered primarily by your organisation in Australia.

This is an optional question

Survey Part B: Development and Humanitarian Projects supported by ACFID Members

Part B will gather project information for your international development and humanitarian activities for your 2020-2021 financial year. This part of the survey asks you to provide the programmatic breakdown for all of your agency’s overseas development and humanitarian projects over the 2020-2021 financial year. We consider all projects that further your organisation’s international aid and development efforts to be relevant to Part B of the survey. The data we gather in Part B enables ACFID to accurately map the global distribution of funds to development programs, capture income sources (such as community donations) for each program and identify emerging trends in terms of the thematic focus areas of member’s work.

Reporting Period and Financial Year

ACFID would like to capture data for 2020-2021. However, we recognise that ACFID members have different reporting periods. Whilst the majority of members have reporting periods that end either 30 June or 31 December, there are several members whose financial reporting periods are staggered throughout the year. To overcome this as best as possible, ACFID asks all members to provide data for the financial year that is most relevant for 2021. For example, if your financial year ends 30 June 2021, please report on July 1 2020-30 June 2021. If your financial year ends 31 December 2021, please report on 1 January 2021-31 December 2021. If your financial year ends 31 March 2021, please report on 1 April 2020-31 March 2021. If in doubt, please do not hesitate to contact Aina Studer on [email protected] or 02 8123 2250. For data comparison purposes we ask that you provide information for one financial year only – the completed financial year most relevant to 2021.

Naming Conventions

Part B uses dropdown lists for countries, regions and sectors. Please only use the options provided. Please download the naming conventions file below should you need to amend your data so that it follows the data validation rules.

Do not hesitate to contact ACFID should you have any questions/issues.

Download Naming Conventions File

Countries

Please select the country in which the project operates from the dropdown list. Please only use the list of countries provided. Please download the naming conventions file should you need to amend your data. We understand that it is common for projects to operate across multiple years and countries so we ask that you please attempt to break down (through estimation if needed) the data to a project level for the specific financial year as best you can. Where a project operates across 5 or less countries, please enter each country it operates in on a separate line and provide details for the project in that country. You can copy and paste data.

Regional program

If the project operates across more than 5 countries, please select the region that is most applicable. Please download the naming conventions file should you need to amend your data.

Global program

If a program operates across more than 5 regions, please select Global Program.

Sector

The drop-down list on sectors is loosely based on the DAC sector codes but with the addition of a number of programmatic focus areas such as disability, child focused activities and women’s empowerment/gender based programs. For guidance on which sector your organisations programs might sit in please refer to the below list. Please only use the list of sectors provided in the dropdown list. Please download the naming conventions file should you need to amend your data

Project Name

Please note that the project data (project name, sector and country only) from Part B will be published publicly online on ACFID’s Interaction NGO Aid Map. Given this it’s important that this information is as accurate as possible. The funding for each project will NOT be published online. In the ‘Project Name’ section please consider:

• • Spelling and punctuation
  • Avoid using acronyms or codes which are not easily distinguishable by the public i.e. replace DRR with Disaster Risk Reduction; and
  • Be clear and succinct

Good examples include: “Empowering local women for increased food security” & “Community Mental Health support with the World Food Program”.

Funding Source

Please list the funding that you allocated to each project within that period of time and the source of the funding (Donations, Corporates, DFAT etc.. )

Survey Part C: Humanitarian Response

Part C will gather humanitarian appeals and spending information for your 2020-2021 financial year. This part aims to quantify the Australian Public’s support for Humanitarian response. ACFID asks members to provide the total income raised from the Australian Public through specific Humanitarian Appeals in an emergency response for the relevant reporting period.

Reporting Period and Financial Year

ACFID would like to capture data for 2020-2021. However, we recognise that ACFID members have different reporting periods. Whilst the majority of members have reporting periods that end either 30 June or 31 December, there are several members whose financial reporting periods are staggered throughout the year. To overcome this as best as possible, ACFID asks all members to provide data for the financial year that is most relevant for 2021. For example, if your financial year ends 30 June 2021, please report on July 1 2020-30 June 2021. If your financial year ends 31 December 2021, please report on 1 January 2021-31 December 2021. If your financial year ends 31 March 2021, please report on 1 April 2020-31 March 2021. If in doubt, please do not hesitate to contact Aina Studer on [email protected] or 02 8123 2250. For data comparison purposes we ask that you provide information for one financial year only – the completed financial year most relevant to 2021.

C.1 – Q(a) Did you run a humanitarian appeal in the financial year listed above?

• • Include General Emergency Funds, which are used to support ongoing Emergency response efforts.
  • Pease include the funds raised from the Australian Public for Humanitarian Appeals only.
  • Please provide the Humanitarian Project data associated with the appeal in Survey Part B (select ‘Humanitarian’ as sector)
  • If your organisation does NOT launch Humanitarian Appeals please select No and proceed to Survey Part D.
  • Note: Please do not provide information on appeals launched after the financial year you are reporting on ended.

Survey Part D: Support & Financial

Survey Part D will gather Support & Partnerships information as well as your financial information for your financial year completed in 2021.

Reporting Period and Financial Year

ACFID would like to capture data for 2020-2021. However, we recognise that ACFID members have different reporting periods. Whilst the majority of members have reporting periods that end either 30 June or 31 December, there are several members whose financial reporting periods are staggered throughout the year. To overcome this as best as possible, ACFID asks all members to provide data for the financial year that is most relevant for 2021. For example, if your financial year ends 30 June 2020, please report on July 1 2020-30 June 2021. If your financial year ends 31 December 2021, please report on 1 January 2021-31 December 2021. If your financial year ends 31 March 2021, please report on 1 April 2020-31 March 2021. If in doubt, please do not hesitate to contact Aina Studer on [email protected] or 02 8123 2250. For data comparison purposes we ask that you provide information for one financial year only – the completed financial year most relevant to 2021.

D.1- Q1: How many individual financial donors did your organisation

The purpose of this question is to identify the number of individual financial donors that supported your organisation in FY 20/21. ACFID defines individual financial supporters as any person who has donated money in the past year, regardless of the amount or how it was contributed:

• • These will include individual financial donations, members of child sponsorship or other membership programs, humanitarian appeal donations and giving through events.
  • Please note that a person who donates more than once to your organisation should only be counted as ONE financial supporter. If this is a problem, please let ACFID know.
  • Members of the community who have contributed to an agency in other ways for eg voluntary work or signing a petition should not be counted.
  • Do not include corporate donors here.

D.1 – Q2: How many corporate donors did your organisation have during the year?

The purpose of this question is to identify the number of corporate donors that supported your organisation in FY 20/21. ACFID defines corporate donors as any private sector firm that provided financial or other support to your agency in the past year:

• • ACFID defines a private sector organisation as an organisation in which a predominant part of their core mission focuses on profit-seeking activities. This may include financial institutions, social enterprises, large and transnational companies, micro, small and medium enterprise,and may operate in Australia or another jurisdiction.
  • Financial support includes donations to the organisation in general or for a specific project
  • Other support includes gifts in kind or pro-bono advice etc.
  • Not-for-profits may receive discounts from companies for services and products. Please DO NOT include these as part of your corporate donor number

D.1 – Q3: How many corporate partnerships did your organisation have during the year?

A corporate partnership is where an organisation signs a formal partnership agreement and forms a relationship with a private sector firm. It usually involves an organisation receiving funds, goods or services in exchange for something the corporate partner sees as beneficial.

D.1 – Q4: What is the number of unpaid volunteers in your organisation in Australia during the last year?

Volunteers include members of the community in Australia who have provided assistance to your organisation in the past year with no exchange of salary or who have participated in or run agency activities. Please do not include members of the community who are on email lists or sign petitions but do not otherwise contribute to the work of an organisation. Please contact ACFID is this is problematic.

D.1 – Q5: How many unpaid volunteers did your organisation send overseas?

Volunteers include members of the community that your organisation sent overseas who have provided assistance to your organisation in the past year with no exchange of salary or who have participated in or run agency activities.

Please include overseas volunteers that receive a living/accommodation allowance (for e.g. Volunteers in the Australian Volunteers Program).

Section 2

Section 2 asks for the income and expenditure figures from your latest audited financial statement and are in accordance with the ACFID Code of Conduct.

Section 2 – Revenue

The revenue should be identical to the figures published in your 2021 Annual or Financial Report.

Section 2 – Expenses

The expenses should be identical to the figures published in your 2021 Annual or Financial Report.