AAMI has long recognised the need to contribute to the community in which we live, work and successfully operate.
AAMI contributes to the community via a range of key sporting and cultural sponsorships and investment in not-for-profit activities.
AAMI Skilled Drivers
AAMI invests substantially in the not-for-profit AAMI Skilled Drivers program, which is designed to encourage safe driving behaviour among licensed drivers under 25. The program, which commenced in 1982, has provided millions of dollars worth of training to more than 40,000 members of this at-risk group. It been expanded to all capital cities in which AAMI operates and is a demonstration of AAMI's ongoing commitment to road safety. The program is free to licensed drivers under 25 who hold an AAMI comprehensive car insurance policy or whose parents hold this policy. It is available to other licensed drivers under-25 for a fee of $165.
Research and publications
AAMI conducts annual research about trends and causes of crashes and publishes the results in two annual Indexes, the AAMI Crash Index and the AAMI Young Drivers Index, and actively promotes the research findings. These activities are designed to inform and educate drivers about unsafe driving attitudes and behaviours and provide crash trends.
AAMI also researches and publishes the annual AAMI Car and Home Security Index and the AAMI Firescreen Index. In 2004, AAMI received three awards for its work in community fire safety education, including: Winner, Fire Awareness Community Service Award (Victoria); State Winner (Tasmania), Australian Safer Communities Award and National Winner, Australian Safer Communities Award.
AAMI Belonging Small Grants
Nationally, AAMI provides support at a grassroots community level via its Belonging Small Grants program, which is designed to encourage AAMI employees' active involvement in the community. Under the program, AAMI provides $50,000 worth of grants annually to support the work of not-for-profit community organisations in which AAMI staff are involved as volunteers or participants.
Philanthropy
AAMI supports staff fundraising activities organised for charities such as the Smith Family and the Cancer Council. AAMI supports State-based Staff Charity Committees by matching dollar for dollar the monies raised for specific agreed charity activities/events selected and carried out by those committees. AAMI also matches dollar-for-dollar monies raised by individual staff members for exceptional fundraising efforts.
Victoria State Emergency Service
AAMI is principal sponsor of the Victoria State Emergency Service or SES, which serves the community by helping it to prepare for and deal with the effects of natural and human emergencies. Via the sponsorship, AAMI has contributed to the purchase of essential new rescue equipment required to help volunteers carry out their work, as well as personal protective clothing for volunteers. AAMI and SES have also collaborated on a range of community safety programs.
In 2004, AAMI was State Winner (Victoria) and highly commended in the national Australian Safer Communities Award 2004 for its work with the SES.
Tasmania State Emergency Service
AAMI sponsors personal first aid kits for Tasmania State Emergency Service volunteers, in order to help them treat minor injuries sustained during their work.
Cultural sponsorships
Currently AAMI is major sponsor of the Australian Library Treasures Exhibition, being held in eight venues throughout Australia until 2007. The Exhibition, which will consist of more than 100 nationally significant objects drawn from both the National Library's and State libraries' collections, will visit every State and Territory capital city.
AAMI was principal sponsor of the State Library of Victoria's, 150th anniversary program and other events, such as the Kelly Culture: Deconstructing Ned Kelly Exhibition 2003, the Burke & Wills: From Melbourne to Myth Exhibition 2002 and the Centenary of Federation Belonging Exhibition 2001.