Corporate Partnerships

The Fred Hollows Foundation has proudly partnered with TechnologyOne since 2017. The partnership is driven by TechnologyOne Foundation’s commitment to making a difference in the local and international community, by working with charity partners to empower disadvantaged youth.

The Brisbane-headquartered global business is working with The Fred Hollows Foundation to improve eye health for all Vietnamese primary and secondary school children through support of the Vietnam Eye Care Project. The program focuses on the development and adoption of national school eye screening guidelines.

Australia's largest enterprise Software as a Service provider, TechnologyOne has offices across six countries. They create solutions that transform business and make life simple for their customers by providing powerful, deeply integrated enterprise software that is incredibly easy to use.

JB Hi-Fi runs a national workplace giving program, ‘Helping Hands’ and an in-store ‘spare change’ program called ‘Change for Change’. With matched giving on workplace giving amounts, JB Hi-Fi is one of The Foundation’s most significant partners.

JB Hi-Fi is Australia’s largest home entertainment retailer, specialising in video games, music, movies, and various electronic goods. There are 184 JB Hi-Fi stores around Australia, with a further 15 operating in New Zealand.

For more information about Workplace Giving, please contact Lucinda Needham, our Partnerships Officer.

Simply Helping is an Australian owned and operated business providing personalised, flexible in-home care and support services, including aged care and disability care.

Simply Helping provides services that add value, meaning and dignity to the lives of others. That’s why they have joined forces with The Fred Hollows Foundation to ensure all Australians have equal access to eye care.

“Simply Helping is delighted to partner with The Fred Hollows Foundation. We believe in giving back to our community and helping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in gaining equal access to eye health care and treatment. Together, we will make a lasting impact on Australia’s First Peoples and achieve our goal of closing the gap on eye health.” – Simply Helping

APA has been a valued partner of The Fred Hollows Foundation since 2014, investing generously in The Foundation’s Indigenous Australia Program.

The Fred Hollows Foundation is proud to partner with an organisation that is equally as passionate about closing the gap in eye health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. APA’s support has helped restore sight and improve the health outcomes of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in remote and underserviced communities around Australia.

APA Group is Australia’s leading energy infrastructure business. They manage and operate networks connecting 1.3 million Australian homes and businesses to the benefits of natural gas.

Coolzy.com and The Fred Hollows Foundation have partnered together since 2019.

Coolzy.com is an Australian owned and operated start-up, offering innovative portable refrigerated air conditioning solutions.

Invented by University of WA Professor of Engineering, James Trevelyan, the company’s vision is to provide affordable, sustainable and energy-efficient cooling globally. Its focus is especially on those people living in overheated climates and developing countries where the high cost and unreliability of access to electricity have historically been significant barriers to people benefiting from air conditioning in their homes and workplaces.

The Fred Hollows Foundation and Coolzy.com share the belief that all people deserve the same quality of services, not only those living in the developed world. Through our partnership, Coolzy.com is giving back to the communities where they operate, including Australia, Indonesia and Pakistan.

The Fred Hollows Foundation has partnered with PLAYGROUND XYZ as they use vision to restore sight to people who are needlessly blind.

To collect data for PLAYGROUND XYZ's Attention Intelligence Platform, they built the Vision Project - an opt-in web browser where they conduct market research.

When people use their app, PLAYGROUND XYZ makes a donation to The Foundation. To date, they've committed enough to restore sight to as many as 1,000 people in disadvantaged countries.

i=Change launched their partnership with The Fred Hollows Foundation in 2017, supporting our work to restore sight and to see a world where no one is needlessly blind.

I=Change is a platform that makes giving back easily accessible through everyday purchases. This tech platform represents one of the most innovative opportunities to raise funds for NGOs and has created a new and sustainable funding stream for charities.

To learn about this organisation, please click here.

iChoice launched their corporate partnership with The Fred Hollows Foundation in 2017, and are proud to support sight-restoring work in more than 25 countries around the world.

iChoice are the preferred mortgage advisory to Medical Industry professionals around Australia. Awarded “2018 Brokerage of the Year in NSW” by MPA Magazine, they package Home, Investment & Business loans to deliver excellent outcomes for their clients.

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Laser Vision SA and Cataract Surgery SA are Adelaide based eye surgery practices established to improve quality of life through improved vision.

When Founder and Medical Director, Dr Graham Fraenkel, finished medical school, he looked to Professor Fred Hollows as a mentor – a leader in improving eye health for all. An Adelaide Ophthalmologist for 22 years, Graham wanted to give back to those less fortunate then himself, and supporting The Fred Hollows Foundation was a great way to act locally while thinking globally.

Their partnership with The Foundation dates back to 2005. For every patient procedure to improve vision, Laser Vision SA and Cataract Surgery SA donate $50 to improve vision and help end avoidable blindness in more than 25 countries around the world. Over the past 15 years, they have donated enough to restore sight to more than 30,000 people!

Customers of Travel Insurance Direct and World Nomads have collectively raised almost half a million dollars through micro-donations to fund The Foundation’s sight-restoring projects in places such as Nepal, Cambodia and here in Australia.

The Footprints Network. is an alliance of e-commerce business making a difference with a solution that supports community development programs around the world. By enabling customers of online businesses to make micro-donations to sustainable projects at the point of purchase.

Travel Insurance Direct and World Nomads, both part of the World Nomads group and business partners of The Footprints Network, provide simple and flexible insurance when things go wrong for the millions of Australians adventuring overseas.

Corporate Match 2.0 is a world-first social giving initiative aimed at increasing corporate giving to the not-for-profit sector. Partnering with The Fred Hollows Foundation, other not-for-profits, philanthropists, and the corporate community, Corporate Match 2.0 aims to amplify donations by matching new or increased corporate giving, dollar-for-dollar.

The Corporate Match 2.0 founding supporter is Vivienne Court Trading (“VivCourt”). VivCourt is run by CEO and philanthropist Rob Keldoulis. It was established “to make money to make change” by supporting worthy causes and donates up to 100% of its net profit, generating millions of dollars in donations in recent years. Mr Keldoulis said, “We want to see our dollars to not-for-profits amplified, and this project can turn each $1 from us into $2 to $3. The corporate community has the resource, influence and reach, even during these tough times, to have a huge impact. A little by a lot is the key.”