Giving employees the opportunity to 'Give an Hour and Change the Future'
There are several ways corporations and their employees can support Children’s Promise; including:
• Promoting Children’s Promise within your business via gold coin morning teas or other events; • Becoming a corporate championProviding employees with the option of automatic payroll giving; • Providing employees with the option of automatic payroll giving; and/or • Promising to match employee contributions
• supporting Children's Promise social marketing campaign (i.e. promote Children’s Promise to your customers and suppliers); or • contributing to Children’s Promise in an area where your company has special expertise or with in-kind products.
Payroll giving makes it easer for employees to 'Give an Hour and Change the Future
Payroll giving (also referred to as payroll donation deduction) has been widely used for more than a decade and provides employers with a effective easy method via which to participate in Children's Promise.
If you have an existing payroll giving scheme - all you have to do is set up a separate fund for Children's Promise.
If you do not have an existing payroll donation deduction scheme in place - consult your payroll system supplier. The majority of payroll software packages allow for pre-tax payroll giving. You should seek professional tax advice; however, typically the cost of establishing and administering payroll giving in tax deductible.
Making Your Employees' Gifts Worth More - This appeal becomes all the more powerful if employees know their employer will match or augment their personal contribution. Your company can do this in two meaningful ways:
1) by matching the exact amount contributed by your employees, or 2) by making a corporate gift in addition to payroll deductions or employee fundraising.
Some interesting facts about payroll giving:
According to a study released by the Australian Charity Fund in November 2009:
over 75% of employees who join workplace giving programmes increase the total amount they donate to charity and nearly 30% are thinking about further increasing the amount they give.
nearly 2/3 rds of organisations without workplace giving programmes had NEVER heard of them in the 1st place!
if just 10% of working Australians donated $5 per week the community would benefit by more than $260m each year and that without taking account of possible employer matching of donations.
it is estimated that $20million are contributed to charities each year through workplace giving. We can do better than that!!!
This appeal becomes all the more powerful if employees know their employer will match or augment their personal contribution. Your company can do this in two meaningful ways:
1) by matching the exact amount contributed by your employees, or
2) by making a corporate gift in addition to payroll deductions or employee fundraising.
Another way that your company can help is to become a Leadership company by sponsoring an aspect of the Children's Promise campaign, with printing of communication materials, mailings or where your company has special expertise, with in-kind support. Please contact us to discuss any one of these options. What would be the best ways to assist for companies with our campaign, it may not be printing and mailing we need most...
