Workplace Giving campaigns provide employees and managers an opportunity to work together in a major charitable campaign. The campaigns are fun and spirited, with employees from many levels of the company forming a committee and working toward a common goal. The nonprofit organizations you help support can speak to your employees about their programs and the critical role employee donations have to people in their community. Federations like Montana Shares can provide a lot of help in running a campaign.

Studies show that giving through Payroll Deduction is three times more effective than simply writing a check. Why?

First, spreading out your donation over the course of a year allows smaller, more manageable amounts to be taken out of your paycheck; that allows people to give more overall. Second, the money is deducted automatically without the employee ever touching it, so the decision to pledge only needs to be made once a year. Third, it gives employees a stake in their community.

Payroll deduction lets every employee be a Workplace Philanthropist!

What a Pledge Can Buy 2009/2010

 The following are suggestions of how your donation might

$2 per pay period ($48 - $52)
• Buys 2 pap smears to screen 2 women for cervical cancer
• Pays for one postcard mailing about public hearings on
  wildlife management and public recreation planning
• Can purchase six 2 x 6’s for a low income family home to be built

$3 per pay period ($72 - $78)
• Supports mental health care issues advocacy
• Will provide a scholarship family membership for a year to a science museum
• Will buy a costume for an outreach student participant who is performing in a dance production
• Helps one Montana community mobilize against hate and bigotry

$4 per pay period: ($96 - $104)
• Will underwrite the cost of a Montana teen to attend civic leadership training
• Will purchase approximately 1,000 pounds of food for hungry Montanans
• Pays to fill two cavities for a child in pain
• Pays for a repeating internet ad to help reach  
  Montana youth with drug use prevention messaging
• Will take Woodsy the Owl recycling message to 67 third grade students
• Will pay for a child to attend a weekend asthma program
• Provides foreclosure assistance to help a family keep their home

$5 per pay period ($120 - $130)
• Buys a mammogram for one medically underserved or underinsured Montana woman
• Supports a volunteer/senior match for three months for companionship for the elderly
• Sponsors medical evaluations and spay/neuter surgery for 2 shelter animals
• Supports twice weekly nature-oriented after-school programs for 15 at-risk children
• Pays for the advertisement costs of hosting 10 wilderness
  educational programs throughout the state.
• Provides the printing and postage for directories of sustainably produced agriculture
  products and retail outlets for locally grown food in Montana
• Buys a scholarship for a child to attend a week-long training class at a museum

$9 per pay period ($216)
• Brings an original Montana theatre group to a small town

$10 per pay period ($240 - $260)
• Supports tiny tot dancers (6-year-olds) dressed in their Native regalia at a pow wow each year
• Pays for camping gear for 10 students in EPI’s Yellowstone Program
• Pays for 18 spays or neuters
• Covers the cost for training 10 college students to organize others regarding reproductive health and rights
• Can put an unemployed ranch worker on the road to year-round work and stability
• Provides materials and supplies for one foster youth to attend computer camp

$20 per pay period ($480 - $520)
• Sponsors the expenses for the annual Museum Chinese New Year celebration
• Buys 204 snowberry bushes to plant on restored lands after road removal
• Covers part of the costs for one student at Summer Orientation Program for a newly blind person

$38 per pay period ($912-$988)
• Will match a mentor with a child for one year