This article walks through the Double the Donation Payroll Giving module, explaining how it can help your organization manage payroll giving programs.
What is Double the Donation Payroll Giving?
Best Practices: Promoting Payroll Giving on Your Website
Double the Donation Payroll Giving: Frequently Asked Questions
Overview of Double the Donation Payroll Giving
Double the Donation Payroll Giving helps nonprofits assist their supporters in discovering if their employers offer payroll giving programs. This tool is designed to make it easier for your donors to search for matching gift opportunities directly through your website.
You can access the payroll giving module from the top navigation of Double the Donation.
How Does Payroll Giving Work?
Payroll giving enables employees to donate to their chosen charities directly from their paycheck. Double the Donation provides the tools to help your organization facilitate these donations by helping supporters find and access payroll giving programs offered by their employers.
Key Features:
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Discover Payroll Giving Programs: The module helps donors check if their employer offers payroll giving programs.
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Access via Plugin: The payroll giving plugin can be embedded on your nonprofit’s website for easy donor access.
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Increase Engagement: This tool promotes workplace giving alongside matching gifts and volunteer grants, expanding your nonprofit’s fundraising capabilities.
Feature-Specific Articles:
- Getting Started: Dashboard Overview (Double the Donation Payroll Giving)
- Getting Started: Plugin Settings (Double the Donation Payroll Giving)
Best Practices: Promoting Payroll Giving on Your Website
We recommend creating dedicated landing pages for each type of workplace giving, such as matching gifts, volunteer grants, and payroll giving, and embedding the respective plugins on each page. This allows donors to easily access the information most relevant to them.
Marketing Tips for Payroll Giving:
Check out our new blog post on Recommended Approaches to Marketing Workplace Giving on Your Website. It includes:
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Real Client Examples: Learn how other organizations are promoting payroll giving.
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Placement Tips: Discover the best places to add payroll giving plugins on your website.
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Effective Messaging: Use suggested messaging strategies to boost donor participation in payroll giving.
Double the Donation Payroll Giving: Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Does Double the Donation Payroll Giving cost anything?
A: There is no cost to embed the payroll giving plugin on your website! If you are on any Double the Donation plan, you will see the plugin embed code in your account.
Q: How is the payroll giving plugin different from the matching gift or volunteer plugin?
A: The payroll giving plugin is specifically designed for payroll deduction information. It helps donors who want to give via payroll to search for their company and view the most relevant payroll giving program details.
Q: Why is the payroll giving module in beta? When will it exit beta?
A: The payroll giving module is currently in beta while we continue to add more payroll giving programs to our database. We aim to have 95% coverage of payroll giving programs by December 2025. Once this goal is achieved, the module will exit beta. All features in the beta module are available for use, and no changes are required to your embed code as features are added.