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Add Corporate Giving Income to Your
Organization’s Bottom Line

adapted from FEI's Sustainable Pathways training*

Corporate giving donations can be a valuable addition to your organization’s income streams. Unlike grant funds, donations from corporations and businesses can be flexibly applied to your organization’s harder-to-fund needs.  

Should Some Funders be Off-Limits to Our Organization?

By Sharon C. Gherman, Funding Exchange President/CEO

I had a question posed by a Sustainable Pathways student recently: “I’ve been working on a substance abuse prevention program project called (name)… My participation in the Sustainable Pathways training has helped open my eyes to other (fundraising) opportunities, and I’ve been approached by a (natural resource extraction) company interested in supporting our project. My question is, how do you balance resource extraction with social/environmental needs and how do I traverse that mine field?”

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~NEW FEATURE~
U.S. Corporations Give
April - Construction Industry

Several years ago we experimented with an Exchange column entitled “Alaska Gives”. Each month, we featured the corporate giving programs of a different sector of the Alaska economy. Alaska reader response was excellent, in part because many corporate giving programs are not included in regular grantmaker databases.

Unfortunately, the research required to complete the column turned out to be quite expensive. So in order to give us adequate time and funds to focus on fully revising our training programs, we reluctantly put the corporate giving column on hold – temporarily.

Now that our “Three-Legged Stool” of training programs is in place (you can read more about them here), we’re ready to refocus on corporate giving programs as a regular feature of the Exchange, beginning with this issue.

U.S. Corporations Give will cover corporate donation programs nationwide, with listings divided into Pacific, Mountain, Central and Eastern regions. The regions will follow the U.S. time zone lines with the exception of Pacific, which will include Alaska and Hawaii in addition to the Pacific time zone.

Each month we’ll list a few corporate giving programs in each region, all focused around a particular segment of the economy. We hope you enjoy this new feature – and if you live and work in one of the regions and would like to volunteer to help us gather corporate giving information in your region, please let us know. We’d welcome your assistance!

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