EMPLOYER MATCHING GIFTS

Many companies have matching gift and volunteer incentive programs to maximize their financial contributions to non-profit organizations. This means they will match their employees' donations to the National MS Society, (often times dollar for dollar) increasing your fundraising total and bringing us closer to a world free of MS. To find out if your company offers matching gifts, visit nationalMSsociety.org/EmployerMatch, ask your human resources staff or visit your company's intranet.

You can significantly increase your fundraising total by asking your donors to apply for matching gifts!

How it works:

  • Send an email to all your donors explaining the benefit of utilizing their company's matching gifts program.
     
  • Ask your donors to visit nationalMSsociety.org/EmployerMatch or contact their company's HR department to learn about their company's matching gifts policies and procedures.
     
  • Follow the procedures outlined by your company's matching gifts program. Printed materials may be mailed to:

National MS Society, Upper Midwest Chapter
Attn: Walk MS, Matching gifts
200 12th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55415

  • Our staff will send confirmation to the donor's company. Upon receipt of the matching gift check, we will credit your Walk MS fundraising efforts with the amount. This process may take some time, however, if we have received the matching gift paperwork by the fundraising deadline, we will include the pending donation in your Walk MS fundraising total. It's that easy!
     
  • If you know a company will be matching a donation, enter the donor's gift and the matching gift through your participant center as two separate gifts. Check the “My Progress” section of your participant center to confirm the gift was received by the chapter. It usually takes months to receive payment for matching gifts.
     
  • If you're wondering if the matching gift went through, check the “My Progress” section of your participant center. Gifts labeled “Unconfirmed” have not been received by the chapter yet. It usually takes months to receive payment for matching gifts. Even though they are not yet paid (some companies may only distribute funds a couple times a year), you can still get credit for matching gifts for prize purposes. When we receive the funds, we’ll change the entry in your account to “confirmed.”
     
  • Matching gifts often take a long time to process, and it’s common that they don’t appear in participants’ accounts before the event. When this happens, we suggest obtaining a printout, or some form of confirmation that the matching gift has been submitted. Usually this is an email or a confirmation page from the company’s online system. Bring this with you to event check-in and turn it in in your event envelope. The check-in staff will count it toward your fundraising total.

If you have any questions, please contact us at specialevents@MSsociety.org or 800-582-5296 (option 2).



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