Aogf Causes.benevity (2024)

FAQs

What is aogf causes Benevity? ›

AOGF encourages and helps Causes receive more donations through electronic means, which eliminates the time and expense associated with check processing. Here's how it works: Register for your Cause Profile on the Benevity Causes Portal. Sign in once your organization is approved.

Favorable Review

It's a great platform and allows me to track my volunteering hours, set up group volunteering sessions, and donate to worthy causes easily - with our company matching donated amounts.

To be 'nominated' means a potential donor wants to see your organization added as an eligible cause within their workplace giving program. A nomination will trigger automatic invitation emails to be sent with the subject line, “[Client] Invites You to Register for Their Workplace Giving Program”.

Benevity operates on a monthly disbursem*nt model. Throughout the month, all donations, corporate matches, and rewards are aggregated and are usually disbursed to the recipient cause at the end of the following month. For example, donations made in January will be disbursed at the end of February.

American Online Giving Foundation, Inc. (AOGF):

Funds flow through the AOGF when USD donations are made to American causes. Tax receipts are issued to the original donor.

Benevity administers the Apple Matching Gifts Program. Visit the Employee Giving portal to request a matching donation for your volunteer time or to make a one-time or repeating monetary donation to the charitable organization (or cause) of your choice using a credit card or PayPal account.

Did you receive a check from the American or Canadian Online Giving Foundation? These are Benevity's foundation partners. A company or employee using the Benevity platform chose to make a donation to your organization, and that donation is processed through one of our foundation partners.

Benevity provides a donation-processing platform that companies use to power their workplace giving, matching & volunteering programs. People use our software to find their favorite charities – charities like yours – and make donations, have their gifts matched by their employer, and volunteer.

Donations made through the Benevity platform are received and disbursed by our foundation partners. Our partners issue the appropriate tax receipt or donation acknowledgment on your behalf to both donors and corporations.

Does Microsoft use Benevity? ›

Microsoft works with a partner, Benevity, to facilitate cash donations using your payment instrument.

Benevity was founded in 2008 by Bryan de Lottinville, who previously worked as COO of iStockphoto (sold to Getty Images in 2006), with a team of four software developers.

Start a Crowdfunding Campaign

The concept is simple: you raise funds in the form of small amounts of money from a huge crowd of people within a specific period of time. For example, if 100 people donate $50 each to your crowdfunding campaign in two weeks, you will be able to raise $5000.

Go to causes.benevity.org and click Register Now. Find your Charity Profile in our database. Select the country where you are located, then enter either your charity's name or charity registration number (e.g. EIN in the United States). Click Search.