- What is Global Impact?
- What charities does Global Impact represent?
- What programs do Global Impact's charities conduct?
- What value does Global Impact add to workplace campaigns?
- What are the accountability standards of Global Impact's member charities?
- What campaigns include Global Impact?
- What resources does Global Impact offer to companies to support campaigns?
- What is the percentage of Global Impact's fundraising and administrative expenses?
- What is an expanded workplace campaign?
- Is organizing an expanded campaign easy?
- What campaign services does Global Impact provide?
- What is the role and value of a charitable network such as Global Impact?
- Can we expand our current United Way campaign?
- Is there value in a company branding its campaign?
- What are the benefits of an expanded workplace campaign?
- What are the benefits of adding Global Impact to a workplace campaign?
- How do we know our donations are not being used to support or fund terrorist organizations?
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What is Global Impact?
Founded in 1956, Global Impact represents more than 50 of the most respected U.S.-based international relief and development charities in giving campaigns across the nation. Global Impact provides a cost-effective way for these charities to raise funds from donors to reduce poverty and build communities around the globe.
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What charities does Global Impact represent?
We represent more than 50 exceptional charities, including the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders USA, Catholic Relief Services, CARE, Lutheran World Relief, Salvation Army World Service Office (SAWSO) and Save the Children.
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What programs do Global Impact's charities conduct?
Global Impact's charities focus on education, health care, children, disaster relief, water & sanitation, job skills and microlending to build communities worldwide. Each year, these charities touch the lives of more than 400 million people.
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What are the accountability standards of Global Impact's member charities?
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Global Impact has rigorous standards to ensure the highest level of charitable efficiency, ethics and public accountability.
For example, each charity must: undergo an annual application and review process; be a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, as certified by the IRS; have an annual audit conducted in accordance with the generally accepted auditing standards; have an active, voluntary board of directors; have fundraising and administrative costs that are at or below industry standards; and meet other specified requirements.
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What campaigns include Global Impact?
Global Impact participates in nearly 500 campaigns nationwide in the private and public sector, including American Airlines, American Express, AT&T, Dell Computer Corporation, ExxonMobil Oil and Hewlett Packard.
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- What resources does Global Impact offer to companies to support campaigns?
Through its network of regional staff and volunteers, Global Impact provides companies with a broad spectrum of support, from strategic campaign development and technology consultation to providing hands-on resources and supporting campaign implementation.
- What is the percentage of Global Impact's fundraising and administrative expenses?
2.7 percent.
- What is an expanded workplace campaign?
It is an employer-sponsored program that offers employees the opportunity to contribute through payroll contribution to more than one federation of not-for-profit charities. For example, many companies offer employees the option to contribute to Global Impact along with local and national charities.
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- Is organizing an expanded campaign easy?
Yes. Global Impact provides companies with the resources to transition smoothly to the expanded campaign model. With careful planning and execution, using the tools Global Impact offers, implementing an expanded campaign can be trouble-free.
- What campaign services does Global Impact provide?
Global Impact provides companies with a full range of campaign services, including strategic campaign planning, campaign implementation, serving as a resource on fiscal agent decisions and online giving, and facilitating charities' involvement in campaign events. In addition, we assist companies interested in unifying their campaigns nationally.
- What is the role and value of a charitable network such as Global Impact?
Global Impact offers "one-stop shopping" for companies, enhancing campaign efficiency, effectiveness and accountability. Global Impact ensures that employees are offered charitable giving choices that meet the highest accountability standards. Global Impact can also simplify and reduce pledge processing costs while providing accurate and timely reports to member charities from multiple campaigns, reducing the number of individual financial transactions.
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- Can we expand our current United Way campaign?
Yes. Many companies have decided to expand their current United Way campaigns, either by listing Global Impact and our member charities in existing campaign brochures and pledge forms or by distributing Global Impact materials separately.
- Is there value in a company branding its campaign?
Yes. Many companies are taking ownership of their campaigns, integrating them with their employee involvement programs and tailoring campaigns to meet the company's broader strategic objectives. Examples include the American Airlines' "American Cares" campaign and the Dell Computer Corporation's "Direct Giving" campaign.
- What are the benefits of an expanded workplace campaign?
- Corporations can design the campaign to meet the giving needs of employees and their own strategic objectives.
- Employees are offered an opportunity to direct their own philanthropic activities using the efficiency and effectiveness of payroll deductions.
- The corporation's image is enhanced locally, nationally and globally.
- The campaign confirms the company's commitment to supporting employee interests and reinforces management trends of self-directed workers.
- The campaign provides employees with greater satisfaction by letting them be part of solving local, regional, national and international issues.
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- What are the benefits of adding Global Impact to a workplace campaign?
Global Impact:
- Is established, effective and efficient.
- Meets the needs of employees with diverse ethnic backgrounds and interests.
- Meets corporations' global philanthropic needs.
- Complements local giving options.
- How do we know our donations are not being used to support or fund terrorist organizations?
Global Impact takes numerous steps to screen its member charities. Because of the provisions affecting charities in the USA Patriot Act, adopted by Congress at the end of October 2001, the actions of Global Impact are designed to assure that this organization and member charities do not aid terrorists or organizations that support terrorism.
Volunteer board members and employees sign a conflict of interest statement annually and all new hires undergo a background check. These steps are taken to assure confidence and peace of mind for all corporate and individual contributors that all their charitable donations are utilized properly.
In anticipation of legislation similar to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Global Impact undertook an intensive self-examination resulting in 100% compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley were it to apply to the not-for-profit sector.
Charity Screening
Compliance with all federal, state and local regulations is a subject taken very seriously at Global Impact. Global Impact screens charities in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act and other federal, state and local requirements. All member charities applying for participation in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) must certify that they do not knowingly employ individuals or have ties to organizations found on any list promulgated by the U.S. Government, the United Nations or other international sources.
Global Impact puts the guidelines into practice in several ways.
- As part of our annual screening process, Global Impact verifies that each of our member charities has signed USA PATRIOT Act certification.
- Global Impact also completes the certification and reviews all member charities against published lists indicated by the Department of Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
- Global Impact verifies that its member charities are not included in the published lists indicated by OPM.
As part of its membership criteria and application, Global Impact, with input from the member charities, developed a statement consistent with OPM and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) requirements that all member charities must affirm annually. The following statement is now included in the Global Impact Membership Application. It also was reviewed by a committee that included the CEO, COO, CFO, general counsel, and key representatives from the Global Impact Board of Directors and leading member charities.
Certification
I certify that, as of (date on which this certification is being submitted to Global Impact), the organization named in this application does not knowingly employ individuals or contribute funds to organizations found on any terrorist-related list promulgated by the U.S. Government, the United Nations or the European Union, including the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals List, the Department of Justice's Terrorist Exclusion List and the list annexed to Executive Order 13224. Should any change in circumstances occur during the year OPM and Global Impact will be notified within 15 days of such change.
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