How do we manage corporate donations and matching gifts in one place?

Donation and matching-gift programs almost always grow by accretion rather than design.

A donation request form gets set up one year. A matching-gift process is bolted on the next. Payouts are tracked in a finance spreadsheet. Approvals happen over email.

Each piece works in isolation. But there is no single record of what the company gave, to whom, or whether an employee's match was ever actually approved and paid.

We hear the friction from both sides:

• Employees lose faith in the matching program, because they submit a claim and never hear back. Participation drops.
• The company cannot easily answer a basic question from leadership, "how much did we give in total this year, and to which causes?", without manually stitching together several sources.

There is also a compliance angle, since donations to certain organisations may need verification before funds go out.

The teams that get this under control put one front door on the whole thing. A single place for donation requests and employee match claims, with approvals routed and logged, and every gift recorded against a budget.

Giving becomes trackable and reportable as a matter of course. Employees actually get feedback on their claims. And the year-end total is a query, rather than an investigation.