March 17, 2026
When most people research property investment programs in Australia, they are comparing strategy, track record, and coaching support. Rarely does the question extend to what a program does with the momentum it creates once members start winning. This episode of the Positive Property Show addresses exactly that, and the answer is more concrete than most people expect.
George Markoski sits down with Paul Dunn, co-founder of B1G1 business for good, to walk through what Positive Property members are funding in Cambodia every time they settle on a property deal, and why George built this into the program in the first place.
George is direct about his own experience. He retired from property in his thirties, spent years travelling, and found it hollow. The financial goal had been achieved. Something else was missing. Starting Positive Property was his first response to that. The B1G1 business for good partnership is the next layer, now embedded structurally into how the program operates.
His framing draws on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Achieving financial freedom in Australia covers the foundational levels: shelter, security, and stability. Once those are genuinely secured, contribution tends to emerge as the next thing that actually matters. A property investment program in Australia that stops at the financial outcome, George argues, is only doing half the job.
B1G1 business for good was founded in 2007 around a single premise: every business transaction can be linked to a measurable positive impact somewhere in the world. The model is transaction-based, not donation-based. Rather than setting aside a periodic lump sum for a cause with limited transparency, each specific business activity triggers a specific, fully trackable giving impact.
The detail that tends to surprise people: 100% of every contribution reaches the nominated cause directly. Nothing is absorbed by administration costs or organisational overhead. That is genuinely uncommon across the charitable sector.
B1G1 has now generated 393 million individual impacts globally and is tracking toward one billion.
Every single impact is traceable. A brick laid. A tree planted. A child given access to clean water or a full school day.
The project Positive Property supports through B1G1 business for good is school construction in Cambodia via This Life Cambodia. The giving mechanism is tied directly to member milestones, making it one of the more unusual features of property investment programs in Australia. Every time someone joins the Positive Property program, 200 bricks are purchased toward a school. When they settle on a property, another 200 bricks go in.
George has personally contributed over 29,000 bricks to date. On the ground, those bricks become classrooms, toilets, fencing, hand-washing stations, dormitories, and school gates in some of Cambodia’s most remote and underserved communities.
This Life Cambodia deliberately targets the hardest cases: schools with the highest dropout rates, lowest enrolment, and most isolated locations. A standard engagement runs three years. Several of those schools have ended up ranked first in their province by the time the project concludes.
One school gate had a total cost of $5,000. B1G1 contributions covered $1,500 of that. The local community raised the remaining $3,500 themselves, not counting the labour contributed on top. That co-investment model is intentional. It builds genuine ownership and long-term sustainability into every project from the start.
George announced that next year’s annual member event will be held in Cambodia. Two days of property education followed by a third day physically building a school alongside the local community, with a fundraising campaign targeting 50 to 100 members on the ground.
The B1G1 Family Program is also launching soon, allowing families to tie small acts of giving to everyday moments. A practical, low-friction way to build the habit of contribution early, well before financial freedom in Australia is fully achieved.
For anyone comparing property investment programs in Australia and trying to work out what genuinely separates one from another, this episode makes a straightforward case. The right program does not just teach you how to build a portfolio. It builds something that outlasts it.
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https://www.b1g1.com
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