Why Host An EarthShare Campaign?
Offering EarthShare at your workplace is easy! EarthShare understands the importance of making it possible for workplaces of all sizes to offer a dynamic workplace giving campaign that provides their employees with a variety of charity choices. That's why we make it our business to ensure that EarthShare can be added swiftly and simply to a campaign's giving options. We are experts at working with companies to minimize costs and customize campaigns to meet a corporation's needs.
When you're ready to offer your employees EarthShare as a giving option, please contact us here or by calling 800.875.3863.
Employees want it.More than ever before, the public is becoming aware of the urgent environmental challenges we face as a society. Employers and employees are concerned about environmental causes and issues that affect them and their families, our well-being and livlihood, and future generations.
Introducing an environmental choice to a workplace giving campaign typically encourages employees who did not participate in the past to get involved. What makes EarthShare appealing is its "one-gift" option: donors don't have to choose between supporting public health, clean air and water, land and wildlife preservation, and other issues. By making just one gift to EarthShare, their support will be distributed among all the causes EarthShare represents. On the other hand, if they have a preference donors can choose to direct their gift to one or more charities under the federation umbrella.
Empowering employees with expanded giving options has also proven to be a morale booster!
It's good for business.
Did you know that nearly 80% of Americans favor companies with a pro-environment image, and almost 75% said they're more likely to support companies and products associated with an environmental group? [Source: The Power of Two: Conservation and Corporate Environmental Responsibility, Roper Starch Worldwide/The Nature Conservancy]
A company can position itself as a leader on the environmental front by including EarthShare in its charitable campaign. Employees, managers, and shareholders alike consider the environment vitally important.
It's good for the world.
EarthShare is a preserver, a protector, and an educator. EarthShare organizations are combating global warming and protecting ancient forests. They're guarding ground water from toxic contaminants and saving endangered species. They're promoting scores of recycling projects. They're cleaning up miles and miles of coastline and they're providing school children with educational programs and activities that instill environmental awareness.
Becoming an EarthShare partner sends a definite message - your workplace and its people care.
Health, environment, diversity, international development and relief, and social justice issues affect companies, communities, and families But did you know that these concerns are not fully addressed through the traditional United Way-only campaign?
Because most employee groups include a diversity of race, culture, gender, age, interests and beliefs, employees should be able to choose from a variety of charities that reflect their own interests. Recognizing this need, EarthShare and a number of federations covering a broad range of issues have joined together to create Charities @ Work, a unified, combined campaign program.
Working with Charities @ Work means a workplace can expand its giving campaign to include important federations whose member organizations address local, national, and international issues through a single source rather than multiple contacts. C@W helps its partners retain the efficiencies of a single option workplace campaign.
Call us at 1.800.875.3863 to learn more about how we can help set up an EarthShare / Charities @ Work campaign at your company. You can also send an email to info@earthshare.org to request more information.
With EarthShare, employees can donate conveniently through a payroll contribution program that we can help you to set up. EarthShare will also give you the resources and guidance to help encourage the most campaign participation possible [learn more [PDF]]!
Surveys show that employee giving rises dramatically when more choices are presented in an existing campaign. With EarthShare, employees have the unique opportunity to give their tax-deductible gift to ALL of EarthShare's member charities with one simple donation -OR- they may direct their gift to one or more charities of their choice.
Employees are always pleased to know that EarthShare is a trusted giving source accredited by the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance, and has earned the highest rating for fiscal responsibility from Charity Navigator [learn more]. EarthShare's administrative costs are so low that more than 90% of each donation goes directly to support our member charities.
Trust and interest = increased participation, which means more money being raised overall for charity - the ultimate goal of any workplace giving campaign!
EarthShare has a team of volunteers and staff available to make presentations, provide posters, brochures and videos, and offer lots of new and vital energy to a campaign. EarthShare and its member groups can be easily added to your present campaign materials, or we can provide our own brochures and pledge cards for distribution to each employee.
In addition, EarthShare's state affiliates represent a wide variety of state and local environmental charities in campaigns in their states, as well as all of EarthShare's national and international groups. Employers in these states can offer their employees a list of environmental charities that include community groups and the full EarthShare national and international roster: CA, GA, IL, MI, MO, New England region, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, TX and WA.
