Workplace Giving 101
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Definition:
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Advantages for Employers
- Helps establish a business as a community leader.
- Boosts employee morale. People feel good about contributing to their community.
- Minimizes the demand on your payroll system. Only one deduction per employee needs to be tracked.
- Any size business can participate.
- Only one check needs to be written
- Campaign materials provided—brochures, pledge forms, posters, speakers, etc.
- Knowledgeable support staff helps you maximize the campaign at your workplace and minimize interruptions.
- Detailed reporting and tracking of each donor’s contribution is provided.
- Tracking and disbursement of all funds to the selected charities is done by CSI.
Advantages for Employees
- gives employees choice in giving and with it the satisfaction of supporting causes close to their hearts.
- Everyone can make a difference. Even $2 a paycheck adds up to a substantial gift over a year.
- Easy way to give back to the community.
- Convenience of making charitable decisions once a year.
- Provides a simple means for employees to budget their contributions each year.
- Efficient and effective way to track annual contributions.
- Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
- Contributor can remain anonymous.
- All donors receive a verification letter for their contributions.
- Still allows the opportunity to make a one-time contribution by check, credit card or cash.
Advantages for Participating Charities
- Less time is spent fundraising allowing more staff time for programs.
- Financially more efficient than other forms of fundraising so more money goes directly to programming and services.
- Knowing how much has been pledged allows charities to budget more effectively.
- Low-cost way to educate the community about their organization.
- Most employees give more through payroll contribution than can with a one-time gift.
- Collaboration with like-minded charities
Start A Workplace Giving Program
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Initiating a giving campaign at your workplace is simple and free to the company. Even small companies find it practical and easy to start and maintain. |
What’s Required of Employers:
- Assign a campaign coordinator to oversee the campaign, distribute materials, collect pledge forms, complete a campaign report, and forward pledge forms to CSI and your payroll department.
- Establish a timeline. Most campaigns take place in Fall. Pledges are deducted from paychecks during the next calendar year.
- Promote the campaign. Our staff will work with you to develop ideas, arrange for participating non-profits to speak at
kick-offs or other events, and answer questions at the workplace. - Set up an automatic deduction.
- Send campaign check and donor data to CSI on the agreed schedule.
Through the Combined Charities Campaign, we work closely with employers to expand the choices offered employees.
CSI will:
- help launch your campaign
- assist in developing a timeline
- give you the tools to implement payroll contributions
- provide campaign materials
- assist you throughout the process
- educate you on best-practices
- advise you about online giving options to minimize campaign paperwork
If your workplace currently has a program with other charities, it’s easy to add CSI as a choice. Studies show that giving campaigns offering more choices benefit by:
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Contact Linda Mosess, lmoses@cs-il.org, for details or to schedule an informational appointment.