Matching Gifts: Doubling Your Efforts
Your Sponsor’s Company
Remind your sponsors to check with their Human Resources Department at work to see if their company has a matching gifts program. This is a great way to double your sponsor’s contribution while helping their company gain visibility as a result of their charitable efforts.
Your Company
ASK YOUR COMPANY TO SUPPORT YOU. Talk to your boss or human resources director. Once you get the boss on board your co-workers will follow. Ask your company for a large corporate contribution or to match everything you raise. Will they sonsor a fundraising event? Will they publicize your fundraising efforts in the company newsletter?
BE VISIBLE! Put up a chart of your training and fundraising progress. Put up a map of the route and auction off miles. Make a poster with a picture of you training and attach pledge forms to it and post it on your door. Be creative!
SPREAD THE WORD. Use e-mail or inter-office memos (get permission first). Ask if you can make a presentation during a staff meeting.
How To Apply Matching Gifts to your Fundraising
Your contributors simply need to go to their human resources department and ask for a matching gift form. They will need to fill out some information and enclose it with their contribution. You will then forward it along to Mass. Eye and Ear (Kristina Sym). Please also include the contributor’s check or indicate how the original contribution was made. Your account will automatically be credited for the match when the form has been processed.
The company may have certain qualifications for making contributions. Be sure that the company matches gifts to health care institutions. If those qualifications are met, the company will mail a matching gift in directly.
Some companies use an on-line match instead of paper form. In this case, your sponsor will go online to their company’s website and submit a request for the match. They should then print out the receipts and sent it to you along with the donation.
Questions?
Contact Kristina Sym.
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