Our philanthropic pursuits and partnerships
Creating a tourism future that benefits people, communities and places
Mankind Digital supports responsible travel and tourism businesses, destination marketing organisations and government agencies globally. We select partners who share our passion for implementing sustainable and regenerative tourism practices that deliver positive benefits for people, places and nature. Through funding, collaboration and assistance, we show our commitment to a future where community well-being and regenerating the natural world to restore biodiversity are valued and prioritised.
Our team of tourism marketers, copywriters and training facilitators choose to work with clients who share our vision, values and dedication to our guiding principles.
Investing in the future
1% For The Planet
We donate 1% of our annual business revenue to 1% For The Planet to offer direct assistance to organisations that focus on protecting the environment and celebrating First Nations culture. Through this commitment, our financial contributions provide support to reputable local organisations, initiatives and causes.
The Really Regenerative Centre
Our funding helps the Really Regenerative Centre in their thought-leading work to build and develop regenerative capability through learning, research, bioregional development projects and place-based change. The centre hosts a worldwide community of over 500 organisations that are part of its Power of Place, a learning journey for regenerative place-based transformation.
Regenerate Australia
Through our contribution to Regenerate Australia’s tree-planting program, we help sequester carbon across Australia. The organisation also plans to rehabilitate parcels of degraded land through improved soil health and restoring water cycles.
Great Barrier Reef Foundation
We make regular donations to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to help protect and regenerate the reef. This directly assists the foundation’s environmental action work along with projects that are creating new, improved technologies to better preserve it.
Karrkad Kanjdji Trust
The Karrkad Kanjdji Trust works to conserve some of Australia’s most unique Indigenous territories and communities. They assist First Nations Ranger groups to deliver initiatives that include environmental conservation, education and employment for First Nations people.
Bob Brown Foundation
We allocate funding to the Bob Brown Foundation’s campaigners and activists so they can better protect landscapes and scenery, along with wildlife and marine ecosystems in Australia and Antarctica. Some of their projects involve preserving the Tarkine/Takayna in Tasmania, and stopping krill fishing and toxic salmon farms.
Give2Cuba
We contribute a percentage of our revenue to Give2Cuba, for projects that provide basic survival essentials, disaster relief and help preserve Cuban culture. We collaborate with our client and fellow philanthropist, Cuban Adventures, to build strong Cuban communities through humanitarian and cultural initiatives.
Our Partnerships and Alliances
Mankind Digital forms strategic partnerships and collaborates with industry professionals, associations and training partners. Our information and educational content reaches a wide audience of tourism professionals and consumers, increasing demand for more sustainable and regenerative approaches to tourism. Some of our alliances include:
The Tourism CoLab
We support The Tourism CoLab’s work as innovators in the field of regenerative tourism development, co-designing tourism experiences with local communities in conjunction with organisations who share their values. This helps create ongoing improvements for local culture, preserves natural attractions and contributes to the local economy. We facilitate training through The Tourism CoLab that enables tourism professionals and academics to broaden their knowledge of regenerative tourism in order to better redesign tourism with a regenerative mindset.
Rooted Storytelling
We work in partnership with JoAnna Haugen from Rooted Storytelling to deliver tourism marketing and communications audits. JoAnna supports travel and tourism content creators to develop more intentional communications without greenwashing. She is also a keynote speaker and provides educational content and training to destination marketing organisations, travel businesses and PR teams.
Travel Writers Radio
Our founder facilitates a radio show segment as subject matter expert in sustainable and responsible tourism on Travel Writers Radio. Here, she interviews industry thought-leaders in order to share practical examples of responsible tourism in action, aimed at helping travellers and tourism professionals understand its positive impacts while learning how to travel more responsibly.
Memberships
The membership fees for organisations we align with help fund training and events, along with important industry development projects. We also actively contribute our knowledge and expertise at events and workshops organised by our membership alliances.
Skål International Melbourne
2022 Winner
Educational Programmes & Media
2023 Winner
Educational Programmes & Media
2025 3rd Place
Communications
2022 Winner
Educational Programmes & Media
2023 Winner
Educational Programmes & Media
2025 3rd Place
Communications
Sustainable Travel International
Mankind Digital is a Guardian Member of Sustainable Travel International, and our founder and co-Director is also an ambassador. Since 2021, our travel carbon footprint has been independently audited and verified by Sustainable Travel International. Alongside supporting their carbon offset and sequestration programmes, we have contributed additional funding to offset our total travel carbon emissions, resulting in a verified offset of 8.81 MT of CO2. We also promote their tools and resources to support more responsible and sustainable tourism practices.
The Tourism CoLab Communiversity
Young Tourism Network
Mankind Digital is a member of the Young Tourism Network (YTN), Victoria’s peak body for young professionals in the visitor economy. YTN connects students, emerging leaders and industry professionals to build careers in tourism. It delivers networking events, professional development opportunities and mentoring that strengthen skills and connections across tourism, hospitality and events. Through its programs, it fosters knowledge sharing, leadership development and career progression within Australia’s tourism industry.
Creatives for Climate
Flourishing Businesses
The Flourishing Businesses community enables people in business to work together to create fair and regenerative societies, environments and economies so that all life on earth can flourish for generations. Our sustainable tourism marketing and communications team gains access to learning materials, resources and tools through our membership, assisting them to drive meaningful, lasting change focused on regenerative development.
Find out more about our efforts that go beyond sustainability alone, the impact we are making and our commitments to keep learning, evolving our business model and increasing our ripple effect.
Working together for people, our planet and places
The Mankind Digital team is passionate about driving positive change in the tourism sector worldwide. By funding, partnering with and forming alliances with individuals and organisations that prioritise co-designing and developing sustainable, regenerative and responsible approaches to tourism, our impact has a far greater reach than if we operated alone.
If your organisation is committed to creating and sharing responsible tourism products, services, experiences and places, talk to us about how we can support you with your marketing and communications strategy.
