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Finalists in Prime Minister’s Social Heroes Awards
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Finalists in Prime Minister’s Social Heroes Awards giving more as times get tough
AUCKLAND, 17 JULY, 2009: The Robin Hood Foundation announced today the finalists in this year’s Prime Ministers Social Heroes Awards, and noted that as times have got tougher New Zealanders are stepping up to the mark to give even more.
The finalists represent a very strong line up of business and charity partnerships that range right across social and business groups.
These include farmers raising and selling calves to do raise funds for local IHC families, a business trust that is now New Zealand’s second largest dedicated funder of cancer research, a partnership that has seen nearly a million dollars invested in breakfasts in schools, food companies delivering their freshest produce to food banks, a drink/driving coaching program that talks to over 20,000 high risk teenagers and a unique industry collaboration that is highly competitive in the marketplace but very collaborative in its social cause .
And all of them ignoring the recession.
“It seems that when things are tough…people just give more,” said Sharon Hunter Robin Hood Chair.
This year’s awards finalists are:
Fonterra & Sanitarium and KickStart Breakfast
Kimberley Clark and NZ Plunket
Telecom and IHC
Heinz Watties and NZ Plunket
PGG Wrightson and The IHC Calf Scheme
Goodman Fielder and Daily Bread
Fairfax Media and Fairfax First Books
McDonalds NZ and Ronald McDonald House
Genesis Energy and the Genesis Oncology Trust
Number 1 Shoes and KidsCan
Frucor and World Vision
Sovereign and Sovereign Sunshine
The Cosmetics & Toiletries Manufacturers Assoc and Look Good Feel Better
AA Driver Education Foundation and SADD
This year’s awards feature the highest number of long term partnerships acknowledged to date - with six of the finalists having stood by their respective causes for between 10 and 25 years
The awards continue to be sponsored annually by both Fairfax Media and RadioWorks Media and will be presented by the Prime Minister John Key on July 24th at St Mathews in the City Auckland
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