Make your charitable gift count with workplace giving

Every Thursday, you can find Eastside Baby Corner (EBC) core volunteer, Sandi Dong, in the nonprofit’s distribution center toy room sorting through half-dressed dolls, miss-matched puzzle pieces and all sorts of unidentifiable toy parts that have been donated to the organization. She and her fellow toy volunteers rejoin the parts and pieces, clean them up and get them ready to give out to more than 200 kids each week.

Dong’s dedication is the kind of commitment any volunteer-dependent nonprofit like EBC yearns to have, but her involvement with the organization goes even further. She and her husband Randy have also decided to support EBC through financial contributions. Randy, who works for Microsoft, and Sandi give to EBC through Randy’s workplace giving program. Microsoft matches contributions so Randy and Sandi are able to double their gift. Sandi shares that the doubling of their gift is not the only reason they use the workplace giving program. They also enjoy the ease of it. Each year around this time, Sandi and Randy sit down to discuss their giving plan. Randy gives the names of the organizations they decide to support to his employer, and they don’t have to think about it again for another year. It’s that simple.

This is the time of year many of us are given the opportunity to participate in workplace giving through our place of employment. While some people give to a charity of their choosing outside of the workplace giving program, these programs have some unique benefits that you might want to consider as you make your plans for charitable giving. Workplace giving benefits both the community and you, the employee in several ways.

>> Continue Reading