Boral's strategic community partnership model based on Our People, Our Products and Our Places, is supported by key selection criteria, and helps to determine the most effective partnerships for the Company. The core platform of Boral's partnership program is to make a valued and sustainable contribution to the communities in which we operate. We involve our People to encourage a better work/life balance and to use our expertise to benefit the wider community. We use our Products to build communities and for conservation initiatives and we focus on our Places, to address environmental and social issues.

Boral has seven key strategic partnerships. These community partnership programs and their key outcomes are listed below. In 2009/10, a total of $505,051 was invested in these community programs, together with a further $371,191 donated through employee fundraising efforts in Australia, the USA and Asia, to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and to a children's charity in Indonesia.

In addition to Boral's corporate partnerships, Boral's businesses support local community activities, including charities, emergency services and environmental groups, within Boral's Partnership Framework and Criteria and subject to Boral's Limits of Authority policy.

From time-to-time Boral also provides assistance and financial support to communities impacted by natural disasters. In 2008/09 Boral pledged $100,000 in the form of 50% cash and 50% in-kind materials to re-build communities affected by the Victorian bushfires. The first of the Boral supported re-building projects in Maryborough, Victoria was completed during the past year.

Partnership initiative	Outcomes/achievements in 2009/10
Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) – Boral Living Green Boral's partnership with CVA is its longest standing community partnership. Boral Living Green continued to focus on not only Living Green outdoors through volunteering opportunities and family conservation days but by raising awareness for Boral staff by providing information on how they can live greener lives through CVA's Action for Climate Change program.	488 volunteer days across 61 conservation projects including grasses, shrubs and trees planted; walking tracks and fencing constructed and maintained, plants propagated, and tortoise hides checked and reset. These projects were located in WA, Qld, NSW, ACT, SA and Vic. During the year, 5620 trees/stems were planted and an area of 21,470m² weeded and regenerated. CVA helped to celebrate the Boral Asphalt plant opening at Mt Rowan, Victoria with the Victorian Premier in attendance by planting trees with volunteers and local Boral staff.
Taronga Conservation Society Australia Boral has partnered with the Taronga Conservation Society Australia since early 2003. The partnership gives Boral naming rights sponsorship of the Youth at the Zoo (YATZ) program and is further developing our involvement with the Zoo's education department with a special focus on YATZ scholarships for indigenous, disadvantaged and regional participants.	Many Boral employees, families and customers visited the Zoo in 2009/10 including 204 Boral attendees at the Twilight concerts in early 2010; and around 600 Boral staff and families at Boral's Family Day in November 2010. The YATZ Eco Fair was held in April 2010 with Boral and Conservation Volunteers Australia participation. Boral products continue to be used in Taronga's major master plan developments.
Bangarra Dance Theatre Boral has partnered with the Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia's leading Indigenous dance company, since 2002. Since March 2007 we have been the Sydney season sponsor. In 2009 the partnership was recognised as the Partnership of the Year by the Australian Business Arts Foundation.	In 2009/10, 320 Boral staff and their guests attended Bangarra's capital city main stage performances or regional performances. In May 2010, Boral and Bangarra held their second family day with Boral employees and their families attending a special performance and dance workshop at Bangarra's Walsh Bay Theatre. Boral is the main Sydney sponsor for Bangarra's 2010 season.
Outward Bound Australia – Boral Family Re-Discovery Programs Boral continues to offer Outward Bound Family Scholarships to Boral employees with a high school aged son or daughter and Outward Bound also manage a program for Boral's Emerging Leaders. Outward Bound is widely recognised for delivering a program focused on work/life balance and the scholarships are a key platform of Boral's broader commitment to corporate responsibility and to supporting, nurturing and developing its employees.	Since the Boral Family Re-Discovery program was developed in 2003, a total of 96 family groups have participated in the program across five states. Eight family groups received Boral scholarships in 2009/10.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) JDRF has been Boral's preferred charity since 2001. It provides Boral with structured opportunities to participate in fundraising and promote employee engagement whilst increasing awareness of Type 1 diabetes and the need for further research towards finding a cure. Since 2006, Boral has been a Global Walk Leader for the Walk to Cure Diabetes campaign. In 2009 Boral jointly won the JDRF Freedom Award for the largest corporate fundraising achievement.	Boral has contributed over $2.5 million to JDRF since our partnership began in 2001 including around 85% from employee fundraising efforts. In 2009/10, Boral's employees raised over $128,000 for JDRF through the Walk to Cure Diabetes and the Spin for a Cure events in Australia. 1,400 employees and family members participated in the October 2009 Walk to Cure Diabetes. 72 riders participated in the Ride to Cure Diabetes in January 2010 and raised $276,000. The focus on engaging managers through JDRF corporate committees and Walk Captains continues.
Building Communities in Asia Through its Building Communities in Asia program, Boral is investing directly in community building activities around the Bayah land acquired during the last four years of development in Indonesia. In 2009/10 Boral established a School Scholarship program for 200 children of our Indonesian employees.	$48,800 was invested in community building activities in the Bayah region, particularly education involving 380 secondary school students to improve their prospects of gaining a tertiary education; education to 60 children who left school during the previous two years; English classes for 20 local teachers, 12 local government clinic staff and employees; and crop growing in JVs, crop enhancement by training, tree nurseries and plantations and payment of electricity for pumps previously installed by Boral to provide fresh water supply to five villages. Employees in Indonesia were involved in raising $5,000 for 10 children to undergo restorative facial surgery.
HomeAid Boral USA has partnered with HomeAid, a leading national non-profit organisation providing shelter for the homeless. Boral's initial two-year commitment is for US$50,000 in cash and US$50,000 in-kind product donations.	Boral is represented on both the National Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of HomeAid's Atlanta Chapter. A project in Georgia for which Boral committed brick was completed in May 2010. Boral provided concrete, block and squeegee for a project in Colorado in October 2009.