YourCause, LLC introduces the Transparent Giving badge, an industry-first initiative recognizing companies committed to maximizing the impact of their employees’ charitable contributions. Participating companies use the YourCause platform to offer a transparent giving model through which their employee giving programs benefit from complete payment transparency. These companies cover all software platform and domestic payment processing fees on behalf of the employee, ensuring the maximum possible impact of each employee dollar donated. 

YourCause estimates that transparent giving is responsible for an additional impact of $90 million to nonprofit organizations since YourCause pioneered and began supporting this model in 2008. As a real-world example, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital received over $600,000  in 2017 in incremental donations as a result of transparent giving, translating into the ability to provide an additional 1,095 platelet transfusions for sick children. Other notable fundraising platforms, including Facebook and GoFundMe, have adopted similar policies to maximize the impact of their users’ generosity. 

"From day one at YourCause, transparency has been one of our core principles because it inspires the trust and confidence our users need to give generously," Matt Combs, Founder and CEO of YourCause, said. "I believe that YourCause, our clients, and our industry as a whole can do more good by building greater trust with our users. And the goal of the Transparent Giving badge is to do just that. We hope it inspires others to follow our lead in order to maximize the impact of every dollar donated."

The Transparent Giving badge may be featured on corporate websites, social media, corporate social responsibility reports, and other approved media, as well as within the YourCause employee engagement platform, CSRconnect. Through this integration, employees are able to provide real-time feedback on the transparent giving model to their employers. 

"The Transparent Giving badge underscores the importance we place on supporting our workforce and the causes they care about.  We are committed to facilitating our employees and agents’ generosity by ensuring 100% of their contributions are allocated to the nonprofits they have chosen to fund," explained Heather Nesle, President, New York Life Foundation.

The expectation of increasing institutional transparency is a consumer trend with significant implications for employee giving programs and corporate philanthropy as a whole. In addition, individual motivations for giving and volunteering change as a result of new opportunities for engagement and social impact, often enabled by new technologies and social entrepreneurship. As a result, employees increasingly expect their employers to support their philanthropic endeavors in more open and authentic ways. YourCause believes that transparent giving directly addresses this expectation and hopes that the Transparent Giving badge will inform, educate, and lead other industry participants to embrace transparency in their employee giving programs as well. 

About YourCause
YourCause, LLC is a Dallas, TX based Software as a Service (“SaaS”) provider of the CSRconnect Employee Engagement Platform (“CSRconnect”) and the GrantsConnect Corporate and Foundation Grants Management Platform (“GrantsConnect”), and integrated, fully hosted solution for corporations to more effectively deploy and manage their employee giving, volunteering, disaster relief, grant management, fundraising, and overall corporate social responsibility and philanthropy programs. Ranked on the Inc. 5000 list for two consecutive years, and named a best place to work in Dallas, YourCause is rapidly expanding its operations through the ongoing deployment of end-to-end solutions for enterprises, nonprofits, and do-gooders. YourCause’s commitment to never taking a portion of any donation transacted within the platform allows the company to deliver maximum support to the more than 100,000+ nonprofits actively engaging with the YourCause Global Good Network.

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YourCause, LLC (“YourCause”) is a Software as a Service (“SaaS”) provider of the CSRconnect Employee Engagement Platform (“CSRconnect”) that provides a fully hosted and managed solution for community involvement programs. CSRconnect is a robust and highly configurable platform that caters to each client’s programs with giving, volunteering, and feature-rich engagement tools. To learn more about CSRconnect and YourCause visit: csrconnect.me

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