Future2, the foundation set up by the financial planning profession to support the financially underprivileged, has launched its website this week.
"The website will be the hub for all that we are doing," Future2 chair Terry Power told InvestorDaily.
Designed to better engage with grant seekers, donors, financial planners and the wider community, Future2's website also offers a payment facility for people to make a donation online.
According to Power, a key function of the website will be to build links with licensees and FPA members and to keep them informed of the foundation's progress.
"Financial planning members and their dealer groups will play an essential role in the foundation's success, both in terms of helping to raise money and more importantly identifying projects that can be funded in their own communities," he said.
"The kinds of projects that we're looking to support are organisations that provide relief and help to poor, needy or destitute people."
Power said a new initiative to be built into the second phase development of the Future2 website will enable financial planners to log their pro bono advice and community volunteer work on a central database.
"There's a large and growing amount of such work going on and we want to be able to capture and monitor it," he said.
As an integral part of its website, Future2 has issued its first newsletter which will be distributed via email to friends of the foundation and available to all FPA members.
"Our first newsletter highlights the Magdalene Centre's Sudanese youth project, our latest grant recipient and the FPA's South Australian chapter which supported the grant application," Power said.
