Community
$299+
1+ verifications
- Community givers listing
- Tax receipt from IBC
Contributions below $10,000
Pay It Forward
The integrity of our sector is our responsibility.
Black cladding steals from genuine Indigenous businesses and communities every day. We can wait for others to fix it. Or we can fix it ourselves — by making sure every genuine business that is ready can get verified, and the sector grows stronger together.
Our commitment
Integrity is ours to protect.
Economic self-determination means not outsourcing the integrity of our own sector to someone else.
Every unverified genuine business is a gap that black cladders exploit. Every time a fraudulent operator wins a contract on the back of a false identity claim, a genuine Indigenous business loses — and the community loses. Pay It Forward removes the only remaining barrier: getting started.
Your $299 — or more — gives another business the hand up they need to take that step. Pay it forward for one business, or fund many. Your name is acknowledged permanently on the IBIR Wall of Honour.
$299
funds one full IBIR verification
~837
businesses verified through community giving
100%
goes directly to funding verification
PAY IT FORWARD CONTRIBUTIONS
$299 brings one more business into the ecosystem.
Contributions above $10,000 carry deeper acknowledgement on the IBIR platform — a permanent record of Indigenous business leadership.
Supporter
$10,000
≈ 33 verifications
- Wall of Honour listing
- Supporter badge on IBIR listing
- Annual impact report
Champion
$50,000
≈ 167 verifications
- Wall of Honour — featured
- Your story on IBIR platform
- Champion badge on listing
- Bi-annual impact report
Leader
$100,000
≈ 334 verifications
- Wall of Honour — dedicated page
- Council Circle membership
- Leader badge on listing
- Quarterly IBIR briefings
How it works
From gift to verification, in four steps.
- 01Choose your amount
Any contribution from $299 upward — fund one verification or many.
- 02IBC processes the gift
The Indigenous Business Council, a registered DGR charity, issues a compliant tax receipt immediately.
- 03Verifications go to community
Funds are pooled and allocated to nominated and waitlisted Indigenous businesses ready for verification.
- 04You're acknowledged
Your name — or your business — is placed on the IBIR Wall of Honour, permanently.
Pay it forward
Select an amount or enter your own. Every dollar goes directly to funding verification for businesses ready to take the step.
Pay it forwardRequest an invoice to pay by bank transfer: sponsorship@ibcouncil.org.au
All donations are tax deductible. Processed by the Indigenous Business Council — a registered Deductible Gift Recipient. A compliant receipt is issued immediately on completion.