Partners in Your Community Investment Success

Corporate Philanthropy and Grantmaking

Control all of your grantmaking data and application processes in the same place as your other giving and volunteering programs.

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Benefits

Corporate philanthropy programs are employer-powered initiatives that provide support and resources to nonprofit organizations and causes to create a positive impact on communities and individuals in need. This support comes in many forms, including matching gifts, volunteer grants, corporate sponsorships, scholarships, in-kind gifts, and direct financial contributions. In addition to benefiting from positive public image, improved community relations, and brand loyalty, employers with corporate philanthropy programs also benefit from tax incentives and improved employee morale and retention.

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Increased Employee Engagement

According to America’s Charities Snapshot Research, 70% of employees say it is imperative or very important to work for an employer where mission and values align. Today’s employees expect the companies they work for to support charitable causes and offer opportunities to get involved in nonprofit work.

Enhanced Reputation and Community Impact

90% of businesses surveyed by America’s Charities indicated that partnering with reputable nonprofits enhances their brands, while 89% believe partnering leverages their ability to improve the community.

Tax Benefits

Companies can receive tax benefits and incentives, such as deductions for charitable donations or credits for supporting certain community initiatives. In addition to helping reduce tax liability, these benefits can also help offset the costs of philanthropic efforts which can incentivize further community investment.

What Our Clients Say About Us

Gary R. Levante

SVP, Corporate Responsibility & Culture - Berkshire Bank

“Thank you for helping Berkshire Bank get our EAF up and running so quickly. It was a super smooth process and the America’s Charities team was great to work with, providing relevant insights that helped us rapidly create a program to meet our employees’ needs today and into the future. America’s Charities is uniquely positioned to support EAFs given its work at the intersection of nonprofits and businesses, as well as the operational efficiency, expertise, and tax benefits partnering with America’s Charities provides businesses. After launching our EAF, Berkshire Bank received a lot of positive feedback from employees who are proud to know that we are doing everything we can to keep them safe, healthy, and financially stable. Thank you again, America’s Charities, for your EAF facilitation and helping make it all happen.”

Cassie Croft

Director of Corporate Giving - AmCap Home Loans

“THANK YOU THANK YOU again so much for being such a lifesaver and working with me on the phone this week to make sure our disaster fund was set up properly and ready to go. It means so much to us that we have an actual person we can talk to regarding these funds and that YOU are a joy to work with!”

Nicola Scott

Manager, Employee Giving - Ledcor Group of Companies

“Our workplace giving campaign was a huge success. A large part of this was America’s Charities’ superb service and how the Engage CSR platform powered by SmartSimple Cloud worked – it’s the best looking platform we’ve ever used, and by far the easiest to use.”

Why Partner With America's Charities?

For companies who offer matching gifts, employee volunteer grants and incentives, employee emergency assistance funds, and scholarship awards, having one technology platform and service provider to manage all of those programs, applications, and the corresponding data can significantly streamline the application and grant making processes, simplify reporting, and reduce the administrative costs associated with distributing corporate gifts to designated charities and award recipients. That is why more companies are looking to America’s Charities and our Engage CSR solution powered by SmartSimple Cloud.

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Automate, Configure, and Scale Grant Requests

Whether it’s an employee assistance fund application, a matching gift request, scholarship, empowering employees to redeem incentives for volunteering, or reviewing a charitable organization’s grant application, America’s Charities Engage CSR solution can simplify the application and review process with dynamic workflows, automations, and screening based on the custom criteria for your unique program.

Reduce Overhead and Mitigate Risk

Outsourcing funds distribution and management of the sensitive application review and selection processes involved with programs like scholarship awards and employee assistance funds to America’s Charities can minimize your organization’s risk and legal ramifications, provide consistent and objective third party review, and ensure funds are being distributed and used in accordance with IRS guidelines and other applicable regulations and restrictions.

Capture Meaningful Insights from Analytics and Reporting

Monitor and report on the myriad grant requests, applications, and metrics that matter to your company’s business and social responsibility goals. We start you off with baseline reports and dashboards and build custom reports based on your specific business needs to give you better insights into the granular details associated with specific activities and initiatives, as well as a broader understanding of how all of your corporate philanthropy and grant making programs are performing at a high level.

Make Volunteering and Giving Rewarding While Aligning Employee Actions with Your Corporate Philanthropy Goals

Recognize employees’ efforts by rewarding their personal financial donations with corporate matching gifts, and recognize volunteer participation and time with Dollars for Doers volunteer grants and other incentives that support your nonprofit partners and the causes your employees are passionate about.

Create a Collaborative Working Environment with an Optimized User Experience and Personalized Dashboards

Roles and workflow-based automation, combined with configurable site design and platform-generated email communications and alerts, empower you to choose how your programs and application processes are configured, as well as tailor access and presentation of information to optimize the experience for applicants, grantees, and contributors.

Solutions And Partnership Highlights

Vetted Charity Listings

For your grant making and matching gift programs, you can use the same charity list that you use with your workplace giving or volunteer programs, or you can specify a separate list based on your program criteria and policies. While some of our clients use the same charity list across all programs, others prefer to limit the charity listing for some programs while offering broader charity choice for other initiatives. We will configure the platform according to your criteria. Regardless of which direction you go, America’s Charities offers comprehensive charity listings and screening options. For validation, products such as the IRS database, GuideStar Charity Check, OFAC, and Lexis Nexis are used for tax or external verifications in order to provide auditable evidence of charity due diligence. If required, our Engage solution can also integrate with various international tax authorities to verify charitable status: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA), Australian Business Register, and The Charity Commission (GOV.UK) and others. You may approve which charities are eligible and ineligible for listing in the system, and we can accommodate charity write-in requests from your employees as well.

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Administrative and Individual Activity Dashboards

Whether it’s an employee applying for assistance through your company’s emergency assistance fund, a volunteer redeeming a company incentive, a charity applying for your company’s grant, or your administrative team overseeing your various corporate philanthropy and employee engagement programs, America’s Charities can configure different dashboards to help the respective user track their personal impact or progress, manage application documents, and keep tabs on specific action items, key performance indicators, and progress through checklists, charts, and visualizations.

Extensive Reporting, Training, and Ongoing Support

In addition to receiving access to self-directed tools and resources for employee engagement best practices, your administrative team will receive custom user guides and training on all associated technology features, reporting functionality, and general applications and grantmaking capabilities to set your team up for success so you can get the most impact out of your corporate philanthropy program. After your program is up-and-running, we schedule subsequent check-in meetings to obtain feedback and to provide ongoing support to your team. For your strategic purposes and peace of mind we:

  • Aggregate data across programs to capture the full impact of your various initiatives and report that data through dashboards, charts, and the ability for your team to use our reports with business intelligence tools like Tableau and PowerBI for even further analysis,
  • Provide applicants and contributors support regarding questions about their applications and matching gift and grant requests,
  • Ensure all charities receiving grants are qualified and in good standing with the IRS at the time of distribution and not on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list,
  • Give charities access to reports and Help Desk support regarding the disbursements made from your company, and
  • Provide partners with status updates and reports of donation disbursements.
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Since 1980, America's Charities
has managed more than
$ in funds on behalf of hundreds of businesses

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