Alison Covington, AM, launched Good360 Australia in 2015, after discovering Good360 in the US in 2012 and being amazed by its scale and efficiency. Prior to starting Good360 Alison had a very successful career, with a background in retail, IT and public transport but a big life event made her reevaluate and change course. 

“After doing some career coaching I came to the conclusion that I wanted to work in the Not for Profit sector. I’d been a Managing Director for a long time, so I knew I couldn’t come in at an entry level. I knew that I couldn’t deal with any fluffiness and that I needed to do something that was extremely efficient. I knew that I wanted to use my commercial skills for good” Alison continued.

Alison found out about Good360 in America upon receiving a newsletter from Pro Bono Australia News and immediately knew that Australia needed Good360.

“The Good360 model ticked all the boxes for me. It was innovative, it didn’t replicate anything else in Australia, it fitted my corporate skills, it was incredibly efficient, it was technologically advanced, it was cause agnostic – I could help everyone and it was changing the face of charitable giving” Alison said.

In 2021, six years after starting Good360, Alison was awarded Western Sydney Woman of the Year, Western Sydney Community Woman of the Year and NPF Third Sector Awards’ CEO of the Year. In 2022 Alison was appointed AM in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her significant service to social welfare and sustainability programs.

Alison says about the past ten years “Fast forward past a lot of hard work, blood, sweat and tears and we have done it! We are changing the way people think about giving. I have a very collaborative relationship with Good360 in the US. We are working hard in partnership to make this a global good”.