Corporate Gift Matching: Making Your Gift Go Further
One of the easiest ways to increase your gift to CADRA is through your employer's Matching Gift program. Thousands of companies, including corporations, foundations, not-for-profit organizations, and associations, match their employees' charitable contributions - sometimes for as much as double the amount of the initial gift.
Companies have various methods for matching gift requests: online forms, automated phone systems, or a paper form that you submit to CADRA. Many companies will match personal gifts, such as cash, stocks, marketable securities, and the value of your volunteer time. Companies may also match gifts from employee spouses, retirees, and board members.
Here's how to take part:
- Contact your employer's Human Resources office to determine if your company matches employee donations. If your company does not currently match employee donations, you might suggest they consider doing so.
- Obtain a Matching Gift form and review the program guidelines to ensure that CADRA is eligible to receive matching gifts. Conditions and criteria for gift matching vary by employer.
- Complete the donor section of the form and submit it, along with your cheque or credit card authorization, to:
Canada-Africa Development and Relief Agency
Attention: Donor Services
216 - 372 Rideau Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 1G7
Our Donor Services office will verify receipt of your gift and return the form to your company for matching funds.
Have Others Give in Your Name
Consider asking friends and family to make gifts to CADRA in lieu of gifts to you for your wedding, birthday, graduation, bar/bat mitzvah, or any other special occasion.
You can collect the cheques yourself and mail them to us. Just include a note indicating that you've raised money for CADRA in lieu of gifts for yourself. Alternatively, others can mail a cheque made payable to Canada-Africa Development and Relief Agency (with a reference to your name, address, phone number, and the occasion) to:
Canada-Africa Development and Relief Agency
Attn: Tribute Gifts
216-372 Rideau Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 1G7
When you decide to raise funds, please call our Donor Services team or email donorinfo@Canada-Africa.org.
