Become a Partner

EWB encourages organsations to make a positive contribution to the world’s disadvantaged communities. Our corporate partnerships provide vital links to the business world for EWB and are the primary source of much needed resources to continue our operations.

A corporate partnership with Engineers Without Borders provides your organisation with the opportunity to align itself with an international development organisation dedicated directly to the engineering community.

A partnership with EWB is not another charity sponsorship; it enables your staff to become directly engaged and involved in a variety of EWB programs through staff internships and secondments, placements on development programs, mentoring and training programs and much more.

By becoming an EWB Corporate Partner you will be supporting humanitarian aid to some of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged communities within Australia and overseas.

EWB Corporate Partner Levels

Why Become A Corporate Partner

• A partnership with EWB builds on and expands your organisation's expertise. It challenges staff technically by exposing them to new work environments and project constraints. At the same time, deepens their understanding of capacity building and community involvement in projects, and encourages a customer focus for delivery of services.

• Involvement in EWB programs is a way of integrating the concept of sustainable development into the culture of your company through active participation.

• It provides an opportunity for experienced engineers to reconnect to on-the-ground work through mentoring, participating in, or even leading a project.

• EWB programs are a vehicle to increase knowledge transfer from experienced to less experienced engineers.

• Your company will have the potential to improve and expand international business relationships and opportunities.

• It demonstrates to the community your company's commitment and social responsibility.

• A partnership with EWB has the potential to influence the culture of your company. It encourages employees to volunteer their time and expertise to help others, and simultaneously drives staff to reach their full potential.

• A partnership with EWB provides opportunities for younger engineers to develop their skills, both technical and management, through development experience in projects that are low risk, yet highly complex, and are supported within a strong EWB framework.

• Your company will be able to network with other EWB partners, members and supporters through our events and programs.

• It will increase your company's exposure and attractiveness, through shared values, to EWB's membership of over 4500 engineers in Australia, half of whom are engineering students. EWB attracts high achieving and passionate engineers who are concerned with sustainable development.

Find out more

If you are interested in exploring a Corporate Partnership with EWB and hearing more about how your staff can get engaged with a variety of EWB opportunities, please contact Annie Wormald

“Sinclair Knight Merz is proud to provide support to Engineers Without Borders in several ways, all of which are directed at both helping EWB in their wonderful work and in expressing SKM’s desire to ‘put back’ into the wider community in which we trade. SKM is providing significant pro bono support to EWB by upgrading the organisation’s operational systems to match EWB’s spectacular growth in recent years. This work is requiring significant retro-fitting of full operational systems by SKM’s lead QA operative, himself an individual EWB member. We are also pleased to be a cash contributor to EWB at the Gold Partnership and are very proud of our many SKM staffers who are personally committed to EWB in very real and material ways. Through these inputs, it is our objective to assist EWB in a ‘strategically focussed’ yet ‘capacity building’ manner whilst encouraging and enthusing SKM staff to become involved too within the limits of their own professional capacity and personal circumstances.”

Bill Lawson

SKM Group Manager for Corporate Social Responsibility

July 2009