This article walks through how Double the Donation and CharityAuctions have partnered to highlight corporate giving opportunities.
Understanding Corporate Sponsorships
What is Double the Donation’s Sponsorships Directory?
Finding Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities with CharityAuctions
Maximize Workplace Giving Opportunities
Double the Donation’s Sponsorships Directory on CharityAuctions - FAQs
Double the Donation’s industry-leading sponsorship directory seamlessly integrates with CharityAuctions, making it easy to identify and secure in-kind donations and corporate grant opportunities right within your Admin Dashboard.
Understanding Corporate Sponsorships
A corporate sponsorship is a form of support nonprofits receive from corporations to fund events, nonprofit programming, or specific projects. The benefits are twofold: nonprofits receive the help they need to continue serving their missions, while the company receives tax deductions and a positive reputation for its brand.
What is Double the Donation’s Sponsorships Directory?
The Sponsorships Directory helps nonprofits and educational institutions find corporate grants and in-kind donation opportunities. It allows users to browse through a list of companies offering these programs, with essential details on eligibility, offerings, and the application process, with direct, actionable next steps.
Finding Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities with CharityAuctions
How do I get started?
- Open the Directory
Log in to your CharityAuctions account and go to manage auction.
On the left-hand side, go to Design & Promote and select Corporate Grants
2. Choose between Grants or In-Kind Donations
3. Browse the full list or search for a company
4. Click “Show More” under a company listed to explore program details and click “Apply” to access the company-specific application process
Tips for Success
Writing a clear, thoughtful proposal can make a big difference in fulfilling corporate sponsorship requests. Here are some tips to help strengthen your application:
- Align with the company’s mission: Look into what causes or types of organizations they support to make sure they are a good fit. Ensure that the application reflects commonalities or overlap between the company and your organization.
- Be specific and concise: Clearly outline the request and how it will support your work.
- Show relevance and impact: Share how their support would make a difference in relation to your actual event.
- Include recognition or engagement opportunities: Let them know how else they can get involved–such as an employee engagement or brand visibility at your event.
- Think long-term: Many companies may also offer other workplace giving programs like employee matching or volunteer incentive programs. Make sure you’re familiar with these options and are actively informing your supporters of the opportunities.
Maximize Workplace Giving Opportunities
Looking to further maximize workplace giving opportunities at your organization? Taking an active role in promoting these programs is a great place to start.
Double the Donation has tools designed to help nonprofits make the most of these opportunities in workplace giving. Aside from providing sponsorship through grants or in-kind donations, companies can choose to:
- Match gifts: Corporate matching gift programs are a form of workplace giving in which companies financially match donations their employees make to nonprofits.
Ready to raise more in Matching Gifts? Click here to get a demo!
- Offer volunteer incentives: Nonprofits can receive a donation from the employer of their volunteers based on the number of hours the employee volunteered. Aside from this, some companies provide paid time off for employees to volunteer with nonprofits.
Here’s how you can grow support and funding with Corporate Volunteerism.
- Offer payroll deductions: Payroll deductions are one of the most common types of workplace giving. Rather than employees going out of their way to make donations, payroll deductions automatically deduct a portion of their paychecks to donate to a charity of their choice.
Make more with Payroll Giving here.
Interested in seeing how it all works? Visit https://doublethedonation.com/get-a-demo/ to request a demo!
Double the Donation’s Sponsorships Directory on CharityAuctions - FAQs
Q: What kinds of opportunities are listed?
A: The directory features two main types of corporate support: in-kind donations and corporate grants. Learn more about opportunities included in our database here.
Q: How often is the directory updated?
A: The directory is updated on a regular basis by our database team.
Q: Our company has a workplace giving program. How can we add it to the list?
A: There are two methods for adding a new company:
- Email us at data@doublethedonation.com a copy of the forms or guidelines.
- Use our online “new company” submission form.
In both cases, we’ll review the information provided and attempt to verify/expand on the entry before making it publicly accessible.
We appreciate your assistance in helping us add a company to our database so all nonprofits can benefit!
Q: How can I find out what other workplace giving programs companies offer?