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COMCHEST Times
March 2014
Attracting The
Wired Generation
With Singaporeans more generous than ever when giving
through online channels, Community Chest has also
started working with more online partners and leveraging
social media to connect with e-savvy donors. Here’s how:
Daily Deal Websites
Earn points and do charity
Community Chest has started partnering Deal.com.sg in
July 2013 and Qoo10 in January 2014 to launch fund-raising
campaigns on these popular daily deal websites.
What’s good?
1.Leverage their broad customer
reach and growing influence.
2.Users earn points by clicking
‘buy’ to donate – all donations are
channelled to Community Chest
3. Deal.com.sg and Qoo10 bear all
administrative and transactional
fees.
Mobile Apps
Do good for unlocking your phone
Showbox is the first app in Singapore that
pays users to unlock their phone.
Simply key in a special code CCC&S14 when
you sign up and Showbox Singapore will
donate $0.50 to Community Chest!
Video-Sharing Sites
ComChest short film goes viral
Our short film - Gift, produced
by The Creative Room, has
gone viral on several popular
video-sharing sites such as
Youtube and Viddsee, and
even moved the editor of
Huffington Post to tears.
The 7-minute video has touched many with its story about
giving and a boy who finally came to understand his father’s
intentions.
Visit comchest.sg to watch it.
Loyalty Programs Network
Convert your loyalty points into donation
Giift.com is donating $1 to
Community Chest for each signup. The online platform allows
users to manage and convert
your points, miles, memberships
and coupons.
You can also choose to convert your points into cash donations
to Community Chest.
Double Your Kindness!
Under the Care & Share Movement, your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Government from now till
31 December 2014. Care & Share is a national fund-raising and volunteerism movement led by Community Chest for the
social service sector, as Singapore approaches its 50th year of independence in 2015. It aims to bring our nation together
to show care and concern for the needy and recognise the contributions made by voluntary welfare organisations. The
matched amount will go towards building the capabilities and capacities of the social service sector to meet rising needs.
As fund-raising and other operating costs are covered mainly by Tote Board and Singapore Pools,
every dollar raised by Community Chest will be made available to social service programmes under its care.
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COMCHEST Times
March 2014
Care & Share
Movement Event Highlight
Uniting the nation to show care and concern for the needy
Give a Hand,
Celebrate Abilities
ComChest Give-A-Hand! 2014 raised over
$800,000 for people with disabilities! Held at
Toa Payoh HDB hub on 15, 16 March 2014, the
roadshow highlighted the abilities of people
with disabilities.
Experiential games, partners donating a dollar
for every successful basketball throw, inspiring
performances by beneficiaries and a basketballon-wheelchair match that Guest-of-honour Mr
Tan Chuan-Jin (Acting Minister for Manpower)
gamely participated in – these were just some
of the activities that attracted members of the
public to do their part for the less fortunate.
Making lonely elderly smile
“I always believe that we
have to contribute back
to the society since we are
much more fortunate. A
campaign like is good in
that it engages people to
be more caring and loving
towards the less fortunate.
It was a nice experience that
all of us come together for a
good cause.” It was collective effort at its best as over 200
volunteers and corporate partners came together
to pack and distribute festive packs or Fú Dài
to 1,000 frail and lonely elderly cared for by
Community Chest supported programmes for the
Lunar New Year Festive Care and Share Campaign.
Dr Andrew Tan, volunteer
Corporate partners such as A*Star,
Keppel Care Foundation, Maybank
Singapore, Singapore Power Limited
and ST Marine organised festive
lunches and entertained the elderly
with performances.
“I am happy to know
that old folks like me are
not forgotten during this
Chinese New Year.”
Mr Chia Hood Teck’s (Lions
Befrienders) eyes lit up
when he received a festive
pack, containing canned
food and daily necessities
earlier this year.
Double Your Kindness!
Under the Care & Share Movement, your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Government from now till 31 December 2014. Care & Share is a
national fund-raising and volunteerism movement led by Community Chest for the social service sector, as Singapore approaches its 50th year of independence
in 2015. It aims to bring our nation together to show care and concern for the needy and recognise the contributions made by voluntary welfare organisations.
The matched amount will go towards building the capabilities and capacities of the social service sector to meet rising needs.
As fund-raising and other operating costs are covered mainly by Tote Board and Singapore Pools,
every dollar raised by Community Chest will be made available to social service programmes under its care.
Copyright © 2014 Community Chest
comchest.sg
facebook.com/comchest