Have You Met Your Match?

Employee-giving programs have been around since 1954, when the GE Foundation created the Corporate Alumni Program, the first employer gift-matching program. Today, the GE Foundation matches more than $35 million annually to 501(c)(3) organizations and accredited educational institutions (including K-12). Since then, thousands of companies have created similar employee-giving programs where they either match donations made by their employees to eligible nonprofit organizations or provide volunteer grants to nonprofits where employees volunteer.