Matched Giving

CAF is a provider of best practice Matched Giving programs worldwide. CAF has the experience, professional skills and specialised information systems to devise and run a cost-effective program for your corporate partners.

Matched Giving programs provide dollar matching for employees’ payroll giving donations, volunteer time, fundraising effort and/or cash donations to charities and community organisations.

Matched Giving programs provide vital funding for many charities and causes, particularly those in the communities in which a business operates. CAF can tailor a program that fulfils a charity and a corporate partner’s requirements, as we have done so for businesses of all sizes.

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Matched Giving and Workplace Giving

A matched giving program is of great benefit to the receiving charity as for every dollar that a donor donates, the company will contribute a percentage of funds, in many cases even doubling the original donation.

Our Matched Giving service makes company matching of employee workplace giving donations easy. By matching donations to charities as part of their Corporate Community Investment program, companies can instill a great sense of common purpose and pride amongst employees. Matched Giving also helps companies to reinforce a sense of partnership between the employee and the employer by boosting the value of their donations leading to greater Payroll Giving participation rates.

CAF’s software can service a variety of matching parameters to enable a company’s matching funds to remain within budget: applying a total matching budget ceiling; applying an annual employee donation limit; matching only selected charities, such as charity partners; a special one-off matching period, bonus time, end of financial year, etc.

As evidenced in CAF Australia’s Disaster, Donors & Giving Research conducted in April 2011, a company matching employee donations is a key motivator for employees to engage in a Workplace Giving program.

Matched Giving and Volunteer Time

Donating money can be very rewarding, however donating your time and skills can be equally beneficial for the charity. Managing corporate-run volunteering can be a time consuming task – for the charity and corporate alike – and often it is difficult to identify suitable and effective volunteering opportunities. Matching employees’ volunteering efforts involves a business rewarding employees who organise their own volunteering. This can save charities valuable man hours in arranging specific corporate volunteer events.

The company determines the rate to be paid for each volunteering hour, which can be capped. CAF manages the program logistics including validating charities, making donations, providing financial reconciliations and detailed reporting.

The charity, for which an employee volunteers, receives a donation from their volunteer’s employer for their time.

Matched Giving and Fundraising

Matched Giving can be used to support and enhance any fundraising that a company or its employees would like to undertake. Funds raised by employees can be matched by the company at a pre-agreed dollar or percentage amount, and CAF makes all donations to selected charities.