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New Effort Gives Tech Workers Additional Way to Donate to Charity

by darrellsilver on 4/2/14, 5:34 PM with 13 comments

• by luckydude on 4/2/14, 7:07 PM

  I put a policy in place at my company that the company would match charitable donations 2:1 up to $5,000 (you put in $5K and we put in another $10K). We match 1:1 after that (though if someone went nuts we'd cap it). Predictably, charitable donations went up.

  Seems like other companies could do the same thing and now it is more of a grass roots crowd sourced thing.

• by protomyth on 4/2/14, 6:47 PM

  I see their faq says:

    Will people know how much I donate or who I donate to?
      No. That’s confidential
  

  I do wonder what happens when they get hacked. Also, it would be nice if they added American Indian College Fund to their education list http://www.collegefund.org

• by korzun on 4/2/14, 6:20 PM

  Why would I funnel donation money via a third party who will then get a tax write off?

  Seriously?

• by tannranger on 4/2/14, 6:25 PM

  Really like this idea, great job!