Community Initiatives
Partners Foundation
The Partners Foundation is a Domino's Pizza internal non-profit organisation established
to assist team members in time of special need or tragedy as a result of natural
disasters, unexpected afflictions, on-the-job accidents and other emergencies. Since
its inception, the Partners Foundation has helped many Domino's Pizza team members
and their families with financial, emotional, intermediary and advisory assistance
throughout Australia.
In the Community
Domino’s is proud to support communities across Australia and New Zealand everyday of the year.
Locally owned and operated, Domino’s strongly believes in giving back to Australian and New Zealand communities and lending a helping hand where we can.
While pizza is our first passion, helping communities in difficult times or times when they just need our support is at the core of our beliefs.
Our big heart is there in times of natural disasters – providing food for communities who are facing significant hardship, when local community groups, sporting teams or schools needs an extra hand to raise funds for a cause or when our team members and their families are faced with their own challenges.
In the past two years Domino’s has donated more than 20,000 pizzas and more than $500,000 back into Australian and New Zealand local communities through doughraisers, pizza and monetary donations.
Doughraisers
Doughraisers aim to support local communities by raising funds through the sale of pizza products on a particular day for a chosen charity, school, sporting or community group.
Doughraisers are ideal for local community groups, charities, sporting clubs and schools as they raise much needed dough, at no expense to the organisation and are a great way of promoting a cause to the local community.
Every Domino’s store is unique but here’s an example of how doughraisers work:
- Once a stores has agreed to run a doughraiser for your group or organisation, one day of the week, usually a Monday or a Wednesday night, is chosen as the doughraiser day
- On this day a pre-determined amount, usually $1, from every pizza sold goes directly to the chosen group or organisation.
If you’re involved with any organisation, be it a sporting club, charity, or school, and are looking for fundraising support, please contact your local Domino’s store on 1300 DOMINOS to find out more information about doughraisers.
Natural disaster food relief
Domino’s is committed to providing food for communities who have experienced natural disasters and have limited access to food. Where possible, our nearest functional Domino’s stores will fire up the ovens and call in the troops to make sure communities who have been hit hard don’t need to think about what’s to eat.
On many occasions our team members have been out to areas hit by natural disasters within 24 hours to delivery free pizzas to effected people.
With more than 530 stores throughout Australia and New Zealand, there is always a Domino’s store close by able to help a region in their time of need through the donation of pizzas to feed the local residents, emergency workers and volunteers.
Over the past few years Domino’s has been able to offer disaster relief to the victims of Cyclone Larry, the Brisbane storms in November 2008, the Victoria Bushfires in early 2009, the Queensland floods, Cyclone Yasi and the Christchurch earthquake in 2011.
Local sponsorship
Our stores across Australia are either locally owned or operated by franchisees and dedicated team members who live within the local community.
This means Domino's supports a great number of local sporting teams, clubs or groups with sponsorship throughout the year.
From ‘Man of the Match’ sports awards, to financial sponsorships our stores and team members are keen to help members of their community.
If you have a team, club or group which could benefit from a Domino’s local sponsorship please complete the application on the ‘sponsorships’ page of our website.
Our support
In every market across Australia and New Zealand our team members support worthwhile charities and community groups, below are just a few of the groups we have supported recently.
Mission Australia
Mission Australia is an empowering and compassionate community service organisation which has been helping to transform the lives of Australians in need for almost 150 years.
Mission Australia believes in helping Australians in need get back on their feet through Employment, Training, Housing, Family, Youth and Community Services. The organisation is committed to eliminating disadvantage and creating a fairer Australia.
Starlight Foundation
Since being formed as an Australian children’s charity in 1988, Starlight has brightened the lives of seriously ill and hospitalised children, and their families, throughout Australia.
Starlight programs are delivered both in and out of hospital, providing positive distraction to children in their time of need.
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is one of the largest and most diverse social welfare providers in the world.
In a typical week, The Salvation Army will provide people in need with an estimated 100,000 meals. It provides beds to 5,000 homeless people, rehabilitation to 500 addicted and refuge to 400 victims of domestic abuse. It also provides counselling to several thousand people.
The Smith Family
The Smith Family, an independent non-profit organisation, works in partnership with other caring Australians to help disadvantaged Australian children and their families.
Royal Flying Doctor Service
The Royal Flying Doctor Service provides emergency and essential health services for those who live, work and travel in remote and rural Australia, providing 24 hour medical assistance to almost 275,000 people each year nationwide.
Marymead
Marymead has a 44 year history of supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged children and families across the ACT, helping around 1,000 families annually.
PACKAGING
Domino’s is participating in the National Packaging Covenant, a voluntary initiative involving industry, governments and community groups to reduce the amount of used packaging going to landfill.
In the next 12 months Domino’s is moving to:
- Create a purchasing policy consistent with the National Packaging Covenant;
- Develop a checklist to assess its food suppliers in the reduction of packaging and to commence the regular monitoring of its suppliers in accordance with that checklist;
- Initiate a measurement program to ascertain the amount of packaging material consumed by Domino’s, and to commence reduction programs.
