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In philanthropic giving, foundations and corporations often give money to non-profit entities in the form of a matching gift. [2] Corporate matches often take the form of employee matching gifts, which means that if an employee donates to a nonprofit, the employee's corporation will donate money to the same nonprofit according to a predetermined match ratio (usually 1:1).
In 2024, The Big Give Christmas Challenge raised £44.7 million, making it the largest fundraising event of the year in the UK. This marked the first time a dedicated match-funding campaign raised more than established charity events such as Comic Relief and Children in Need, a development described by Charity Times as “a major shift” in UK fundraising.
On January 11, 2024, The Fund announced that its year-end Double Down for Veterans fundraising campaign raised more than $26.8 million – including a $10 million match from The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation, marking the twelfth consecutive year that the foundation matched donations to The Fund and raising the foundation's cumulative total of ...
Matching gifts – Corporate donations to nonprofits as a match to employee giving. Approximately 65% of Fortune 500 companies offer these programs. [3] Volunteer grants – Giving to nonprofits in recognition of employee-volunteer service to that organization. Approximately 40% of Fortune 500 companies offer these programs.
The Hewlett Foundation continued to be a major funder of GiveWell until March 2014, when the Hewlett Foundation announced that it was ending the Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative based on a 2010 study it commissioned that found that only 3% of donors selected charities based on performance metrics (rather than e.g. loyalty, personal connections ...
The Greyhound Trust is an independent charity, funded entirely by donation. The Greyhound Board of Great Britain contributes £200 to the homing of Greyhounds who enter the Greyhound Trust through its Greyhound Retirement Scheme (which is match funding in addition to the £200 that the owner of the Greyhound has paid towards the cost of homing their Greyhound through the scheme).
This new matched funding initiative raised £15 million. Oxford University contributed 40% of the funds with 60% donated by supporters and friends of the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust, including a generous gift of £5 million from Swiss Businessman, philanthropist, and Trust first chairman André Hoffmann .
The website started in 2011 as an initiative of Platoniq, a non-profit focused on civic participation and social innovation since 2001. [7] [8] In 2012, Platoniq creates the Goteo Foundation [9] to manage the platform, and open sources the platform source code [3] under an AGPLv3 license.