DOUBLE YOUR DONATION
Your Gift of Time
Make your gift of volunteer time work harder! Check with your employer to see if they will match your gift of time with a financial gift. Many companies will make a financial contribution if their employee contributes a minimum number of volunteer hours per year. Please contact your Human Resources department for more information.
Examples
3M will donate $20 for each hour a 3M employee volunteers at an eligible organization, up to a total of 25 hours (or $500) per calendar year. For additional questions, please contact MatchingGifts@mmm.com.
Beckman Coulter will match your volunteer hours up to a certain amount through the Danaher Foundation. Employees log in here and go to "Donations for Doers", where you enter your volunteer hours. Once you get 20 hours, you can send $250 to an organization of your choice. You can do this twice in a year for a total of $500 if you volunteer 40 hours.
CVS Health has a donation match that employees can apply for. After employees volunteer 10 to 24.5 hours, CVS provides a $500 volunteer grant. For 25 to 99.5 hours, it’s a $1,000 grant. For 100 or more hours, it’s a $1,500 grant. Employees log in here to get started.
Ecolab has a volunteer grant program, where for every 2 hours volunteered, a $20 Dollars for Doers Incentive is available to redeem towards eligible charitable organizations (for employees and retirees; up to $400 per year).
Honeywell provides a $500 grant to the nonprofit once an employee volunteers and logs 50 volunteer hours. Employees register their volunteer hours and request the volunteer grant electronically at honeywell.benevity.org
Land O’ Lakes employees can log their volunteer hours - either for team or individual activities - and the Foundation will then provide a grant to eligible nonprofit organizations through their Dollars for Doers program.
Medtronic matches 50 hours at $20 per hour (up to $1000) per fiscal year. Must have a 10-hour minimum - can bundle hours from multiple STEM volunteering efforts to reach this. You choose who you want to give the matching money to.
United Health Group employees can earn a $500 charitable grant after tracking 30 hours of volunteer time.
U.S. Bank matches employee volunteer time at $5 per hour up to 40 hours per year.
Your Gift of Money
Make your financial gift work harder by doubling it through a matching gift from your employer. Hundreds of companies will match the charitable gifts made or volunteer hours logged by their employees or retirees. Both large companies and small businesses match. Simply completing a short form from your employer’s human resources department can mean another gift to the Minnesota Academy of Science.
EXAMPLES
Through the 3M Community Giving Match, 3Mers can get their nonprofit donations matched by 3M Foundation up to $1,000 per employee, per calendar year. Visit the My 3M Gives portal to sign up. For additional questions, please contact MatchingGifts@mmm.com.
Beckman Coulter will match your donation up to $500 through the Danaher Foundation. Employees log in here.
CVS Health matches eligible donations dollar for dollar up to $5,000. Employees log in here.
Ecolab will match your gift (up to $1,000) if you donate to our programs focusing on STEM education.
General Mills matches your gift! Employees must submit their matching gift requests electronically. Retirees can print out and submit their matching gift requests.
Medtronic will match your donation!
The United Health Foundation matches employee contributions, dollar for dollar, to nearly all nonprofit organizations, doubling their impact. Employees have the ability to give whenever, wherever and however they choose.
U.S. Bank Foundation matches qualifying contributions of cash and stock made by U.S. Bank employees to nonprofit organizations or higher education institutions. This program matches donations from a minimum of $50 up to an annual maximum of $1,000 per employee, or $3,000 for employees serving on nonprofit boards.
Wells Fargo facilitates employee donations year-round and amplifies the donation impact through the Community Care Grants program. Through this program, employees can qualify for grants for giving and service activities, and then direct the funds to eligible charities of their choice.
Learn more about matching gifts by contacting your employer’s human resources department.
