How it Works

A workplace giving campaign can be the main cornerstone of your company’s corporate giving, employee fundraising activities, volunteerism and related efforts. Most employers recognize that corporate philanthropy and employee engagement programs are vital parts of today’s business culture and Corporate Citizenship Strategies.

For over 30 years, America’s Charities has been key in helping employers develop and market highly branded, customized campaigns that effectively shares the message of the corporation’s charitable outreach (part of your corporate citizenship strategies) with the employee base. Our national and regional staff provide hands-on assistance, as needed, to help plan and administer your campaigns. We are fully committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction, America’s Charities has a long track record of providing outstanding service, technology and operational excellence to employers and employees throughout the country.

America's Charities recognizes that giving at work through payroll deduction is significant in its support of charitable causes in America and is a reflection of employer involvement in communities. Workplace philanthropy represents one of the highest-yielding and lowest-cost methods of fundraising for nonprofit organizations.

The Benefits

To Employers:

• Sends a strong message of interest in employee engagement
• Demonstrates good corporate citizenship and improves corporate image for stakeholders and in the community
• Helps build a sense of community among employees

To Employees:

• Gives employees exposure to charities and services in their community
• Ease and convenience of payroll deduction
• Sense of helping others How can America’s Charities help?

A partnership with America’s Charities can make a world of difference in your workplace philanthropic goals. We will guide you through the process of developing or starting a new campaign or help expand your existing campaign to offer more choice or online technology.

America’s Charities deep commitment to outstanding customer service is shared across all of our consulting service areas.

Campaign Management - Guides you through the development of a customized campaign based on strategic employee involvement goals, corporate citizenship strategies or employee feedback.
Marketing - Helps you design a brandable campaign based on corporate standards. We can work with you to design pledge forms and charity information and materials for employees.
Fiscal Services - Annually, America’s Charities processes tens of thousands of pledges and reports from charities around the country and disburse those funds to federations and to independent charities not affiliated with federations at the local, national and international levels. America’s Charities is a trusted name in fiscal service. Through America’s Charities employees’ contributions get to their designated charities, and get there quickly. We can provide donor information to charities for gift acknowledgments, campaign reports to employers summarizing giving by federation, charity, employee location or division. 

• Process Pledge Data
• Verify Charity Tax Exempt Status
• Provide Initial Campaign Reports
• Campaign Summary
• Donor Location Report
• Charity Pledge Report
• Federation Pledge Reports
• Provide Payroll Report
• Process Payroll Payment
• And much more...

Technology Services – Most Fortune 500 companies provide an online giving option in their workplace giving campaigns. America’s Charities award-winning technology solution, Pledge First, is the strategic giving solution for your corporate employee-giving philanthropic initiatives and special appeals.

The Pledge First technology platform affords the opportunity to easily mirror the look and feel of your corporate or community relations site as well as aide in reducing administrative time for the employer, opportunity to customize and brand workplace giving programs, integrate employee involvement initiatives in one program and provide employees with a personal giving accounts.
 

Today, more and more employers are re-examining their workplace charitable giving drives. With a goal of strengthening their support of local and national charity initiatives, enhancing employee relations, building campaign satisfaction, and delivering the highest percentage of employee gifts to charities, companies are seeing how a workplace campaign, fits into their overall business and community strategy.

Every year, America’s Charities is presented as a choice to over 3 million employees in workplace giving campaigns in the private sector, as well as federal and state and local governments. Adding America’s Charities and its members to an existing campaign, or starting a new campaign, does not need to be a time-consuming, resource-draining ordeal. One of things America's Charities does well is making sure that the process is not burdensome or costly. We do what we can to simplify the process and lower costs to you all while being responsive to employee charitable interests.

Best Practices serve as the starting point when America’s Charities guides you through the development of your workplace giving campaign. The campaign should be fused with the corporate culture at the most basic level, and should be aimed at creating a deepening level of involvement between the donor and the charity.

With buy-in by management and employees the campaign is virtually guaranteed to be successful. And by helping employers create and operate successful campaigns, charities are virtually guaranteed of the resources they need to carry out their very important missions.

Key tips to remember:

• The campaign must be integrated with the company’s employee involvement program
• The campaign is branded to fit the company’s unique culture and includes organizations that are relevant to employees and their charitable and volunteer interests
• The campaign provides opportunities for employee involvement and team building
• The campaign promotes loyalty and goodwill between the company and its employees.
   

Use newsletters, reports to stakeholders or staff meetings to recognize and celebrate the difference employees make in their communities through workplace involvement.

These results can be used to plan future philanthropic programs, corporate citizenship strategies or boost visibility in the community. All of these factors are key in building employee morale, fostering the spirit of teamwork between upper management and employees and building relationships with key stakeholders.