Corporate Giving With Employee Participation
Dedicated staff time to focus on the Philanthropic endeavor will better provide for the goals and objectives of the corporate strategy for giving and making a difference. To improve employee participation in the philanthropic endeavor the effort of corporate giving must as an important component allow for the provision of employee involvement. The corporate giving initiative should provide for the opportunities of employees to identify the means for giving to nonprofits, the means to convey whom they wish to give to, how they wish the corporate giving to be recognized and to what degree they want to share with their fellow employees their opinions.
Each employee has their own level of tolerance for giving and effort to accomplish the goal of corporate giving. A flexible corporate philanthropy endeavor, which allows the various levels of participation, will improve the chances of success. When the corporate giving program has a match or even a minimum that the corporation will give on behalf of each employee will increase participation. However, there will be some people that just do not want to. It is suggested that for the pool of money set aside by the corporate giving program for the match of employee which is unused at the close of the philanthropic corporate giving campaign be proportionally assigned to the organizations that were identified by the employees that did participate. It provides for active employees to promote their cause and corporate giving campaign. However, there should be ground rules for promoting the nonprofit causes.
Have the employees devise the corporate giving campaign with a geographical focus. Have the campaign focus on the particular goals and objectives of the corporate philanthropic giving. Have the employees or a consultant identify those nonprofits that meet the needs of the corporate giving campaign.
Have a selection process for nonprofits that is either open, random selection, pre-selection or by invitation only.
Open allows any nonprofit to apply to receive funds from the corporate campaign base on guidance set forth under the philanthropic endeavor.
Random selection is where the corporate giving decision making team just pick nonprofits and contact them to give them checks.
Pre-selection is when the corporate giving campaign is targeted for specific nonprofits that are known in advance.
By invitation only is where the decision-making team invites nonprofits to compete.
