Between early February and mid-March 2005 just over 6,200 adult Australians agreed to participate in a telephone survey designed to collect data on the giving of money and the giving of time or volunteering to organisations working in different fields of activity. Data was also collected on their reasons for giving (or for not giving) and their experience of, and attitudes toward, different fundraising methods. It was the first time in Australia that data on the two major forms of philanthropic behaviour, the giving of money and the giving of time, have been collected from the same population. One of the reasons for undertaking the study was to determine if there had been any noticeable change in these behaviours over the past decade.