Community & Environment Policy Update – January 2012
In the last 12 months, Marsh has undertaken a number of initiatives to help support the local community.
Supporting Christchurch
Our key fundraising effort has been in support of Christchurch following the Canterbury earthquake.
Marsh has had an office in Christchurch for many years and thus has a large connect with the Canterbury community through our colleagues and clients based there.
Our parent organisation, Marsh & McLennan Companies provided a donation of $25,000 towards the earthquake fund. In addition, Marsh colleagues locally and across the globe undertook several fundraising initiatives to help grow the fund. This included morning teas, black t-shirt day, a sports memorabilia auction and jeans days. Marsh matched these colleague contributions dollar for dollar.
The result was a donation of $30,000 to St Johns and $30,000 to USAR Search Dog Association. Further to this, nearly $15,000 was made to other not for profit organisations in the memory of our colleagues who tragically lost their lives in the quake.
Community fundraising programme
In addition to the Canterbury effort, Marsh has contributed charitable donations / participated in community events as follows -
Our corporate golf days in Wellington and New Plymouth raised funds for the Red Cross and Life Education Trust respectively
Marsh colleagues joined a blood drive in March in Auckland and Wellington to help support New Zealand’s bloodbank
We sponsored the LAPD fire truck in the annual Variety Club Bash in March
A team of colleagues in Auckland and New Plymouth raised money for Movember, which promotes prostate cancer
Colleagues in Auckland donated food and toys for the Salvation Army to give to families in need at Christmas
In Dunedin, colleagues collected food for the Presbyterian Support food banks, donated toys to the children's ward at Dunedin Hospital and provided pet food to the SPCA.
Colleague wellness initiatives
As part of our colleague wellness initiatives, we sponsored three Marsh sports teams in 2011 -
Our key fundraising effort has been in support of Christchurch following the Canterbury earthquake. 
The result was a donation of $30,000 to St Johns and $30,000 to USAR Search Dog Association. Further to this, nearly $15,000 was made to other not for profit organisations in the memory of our colleagues who tragically lost their lives in the quake.
