Why Host An EarthShare New York Campaign?
Offering EarthShare New York at your workplace is easy! EarthShare New York understands the importance of making it possible for workplaces of all sizes to offer a dynamic workplace giving campaign that provides their employees with a variety of charity choices. That's why we make it our business to ensure that EarthShare New York can be added swiftly and simply to a campaign's giving options. We are experts at working with companies to minimize costs and customize campaigns to meet a corporation's needs.
When you're ready to offer your employees EarthShare New York as a giving option, please contact us at info@earthshareny.org or at 212.822.9567.
Employees want it. More than ever before, the public is becoming aware of the urgent environmental challenges we face as a society. Employers and employees are concerned about environmental causes and issues that affect them and their families, our well-being and livelihood, and future generations.
Introducing an environmental choice to a workplace giving campaign typically encourages employees who did not participate in the past to get involved.
Empowering employees with expanded giving options has also proven to be a morale booster!
It's good for business.
Did you know that nearly 80% of Americans favor companies with a pro-environment image, and almost 75% said they're more likely to support companies and products associated with an environmental group? [Source: The Power of Two: Conservation and Corporate Environmental Responsibility, Roper Starch Worldwide/The Nature Conservancy]
A company can position itself as a leader on the environmental front by including EarthShare New York in its charitable campaign. Employees, managers, and shareholders alike consider the environment vitally important.
It's good for the world.
EarthShare New York is a preserver, a protector, and an educator. EarthShare New York organizations are combating global warming and protecting ancient forests. They're guarding ground water from toxic contaminants and saving endangered species. They're promoting scores of recycling projects and helping to create and restore community gardens. They're cleaning up miles and miles of coastline and they're providing school children with educational programs and activities that instill environmental awareness.
Becoming an EarthShare New York partner sends a definite message - your workplace and its people care.
Health, environment, diversity, international development and relief, and social justice issues affect companies, communities, and families. But did you know that these concerns are not fully addressed through the traditional United Way-only campaign?
Because most employee groups include a diversity of race, culture, gender, age, interests and beliefs, employees should be able to choose from a variety of charities that reflect their own interests. Recognizing this need, EarthShare and a number of federations covering a broad range of issues have joined together to create Charities @ Work, a unified, combined campaign program.
Working with Charities @ Work means a workplace can expand its giving campaign to include important federations whose member organizations address local, national, and international issues through a single source rather than multiple contacts. C@W helps its partners retain the efficiencies of a single option workplace campaign.
Call us at 1.800.230.3369 to learn more about how we can help set up an EarthShare New York/ Charities @ Work campaign at your company. You can also send an email to info@earthshareny.org to request more information.
With EarthShare New York, employees can donate conveniently through a payroll contribution program that we can help you to set up. EarthShare New York will also give you the resources and guidance to help encourage the most campaign participation possible [learn more [PDF]]!
Surveys show that employee giving rises dramatically when more choices are presented in an existing campaign. With EarthShare New York, employees have the unique opportunity to give their tax-deductible gift to ALL of EarthShare New York’s member charities with one simple donation -OR- they may direct their gift to one or more charities of their choice.
Employees are always pleased to know that EarthShare New York is a trusted giving source -- EarthShare New York's administrative costs are so low that more than 95% of each donation goes directly to support our member charities.
Trust and interest = increased participation, which means more money being raised overall for charity - the ultimate goal of any workplace giving campaign!
EarthShare New York has a team of volunteers and staff available to make presentations, provide posters, brochures and videos, and offer lots of new and vital energy to a campaign. EarthShare New York and its member groups can be easily added to your present campaign materials, or we can provide our own brochures and pledge cards for distribution to each employee.
In addition, the EarthShare federation is made up of 13 other state affiliates, so Employers with employees in other states can offer their employees a list of environmental charities that include community groups and the full EarthShare national and international roster: CA, GA, IL, MI, MO, New England region, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, TX and WA.
