5 Minutes a Week: How Donation Matching Became Easy for This Company

"I really want to emphasize how easy it is to run our charitable matching program through Percent Pledge. I can’t imagine managing it in-house. It would require an FTE and coordination across various teams. But with Percent Pledge, I literally take 5-10 minutes per week to check in to the dashboard, and that’s it. Saves us so much time!"

Note: This client's internal policies required anonymity. Throughout, they are referred to as ‘The Champions of Percent Pledge’s Ease of Use’.

Challenge

‘The Champions of Percent Pledge’s Ease of Use’ didn’t have social impact initiatives in place, but knew it was a priority as team members continued to request ways to support social causes, movements, and crises. Leadership immediately acted, implementing a matching donation benefit and seeking a charitable matching donation platform to administer and track it. 

Looking for a simple yet customizable workplace giving platform, leadership turned to Percent Pledge. 

Solution

‘The Champions of Percent Pledge’s Ease of Use’ implemented the Workplace Giving Platform, simplifying the company to set up an annual matching donation program of up to $500 per employee. 

From implementing the program to the ease of employee and admin use, the company has experienced a wildly successful, simple, and customizable matching donation program.

I highly recommend Percent Pledge for its implementation, simplicity, and beauty of the platform.
_{John, Senior People Ops Coordinator}

A donation matching platform ready in 2 weeks

‘The Champions of Percent Pledge’s Ease of Use’ officially partnered with Percent Pledge and launched the platform employee-wide on Giving Tuesday. 

Other workplace giving vendors required six to eight weeks of implementation. Percent Pledge was simple and smooth, only taking two weeks.

Also, we wanted to start with a simple charitable matching program; should we ever expand, there is that opportunity with Percent Pledge. But some vendors only allowed packages without the customization and simplicity we were looking for.
_{John, Senior People Ops Coordinator}

While shopping for workplace giving programs, the team prioritized a simple and customizable donation matching platform that could be implemented fast, along with the ability to grow social impact initiatives in the future—all reasons why they chose Percent Pledge.

Employees champion the Workplace Giving Platform

‘The Champions of Percent Pledge’s Ease of Use’ also chose Percent Pledge because of the platform’s ease of use. Specifically, employees can support any thoroughly vetted nonprofit responding to social causes, movements, or crises. On top of employees giving with trust, they can research and learn about the nonprofits on the platform instead of navigating to various charity evaluators (i.e. Charity Navigator).

It's very convenient for employees to have vetting research to make informed decisions and take action, all in the Percent Pledge Platform. Also, when a crisis suddenly emerges, Percent Pledge shares vetted nonprofits rapidly responding, which allows us to align our company’s agility with Percent Pledge’s to act and respond immediately.
_{John, Senior People Ops Coordinator}

With the ease of use for employees to support the causes they care about, the company’s employees naturally became champions, sharing with other and future employees. 

Employees are champions of this program. It is so great to see employees organically messaging about Percent Pledge; it shows folks really appreciate the program. The charitable matching program has also been great for showing future employees that we have benefits outside of compensation.
_{John, Senior People Ops Coordinator}

Automated charitable matching program = time savings

When shopping for donation matching programs, ‘The Champions of Percent Pledge’s Ease of Use’ also knew that internally managing the program was an option. But a very manual, timely, and tedious option involving many team members across various teams (i.e. People, Finance, Legal)—another reason why they chose Percent Pledge. 

I really want to emphasize how easy it is to run our charitable matching program through Percent Pledge. I can’t imagine managing it in-house. It would require an FTE and coordination across various teams. But with Percent Pledge, I literally take 5-10 minutes per week to check in to the dashboard, and that’s it. Saves us so much time!
_{John, Senior People Ops Coordinator}

The Workplace Giving Platform automates not only the matching donation portion but also the real-time data that shares storytelling insights.

The Percent Pledge bonus is the data-driven insights that employees and I, as an admin, can access via our dashboards. As a data-driven company, a lot of our actions are driven by data, so opening the dashboard to see the numbers of charities we’ve impacted, engaged employees, and much more tells us a story, and it is much appreciated.
_{John, Senior People Ops Coordinator}

After a year of an incredibly successful partnership, ‘The Champions of Percent Pledge’s Ease of Use’ are looking forward to expanding its social impact beyond its charitable matching program with Percent Pledge.