America's Charities is a 501(c)(3) membership-based nonprofit, representing more than 130

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in workplace giving campaigns for employers in public and private sectors: the Combined Federal Campaign, the

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’s workplace giving campaign,

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and local governments, and nonprofits. In its 40 years, America's Charities has raised more than $750 million for more than 20,000 nonprofits addressing causes including education, human rights, hunger, poverty, research, animal welfare, veteran assistance, disaster relief, and health services. It is based in

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Background

Historically, most workplace giving campaigns in the United States were managed by a different group of charitable federations under the

United Way United Way is an international network of over 1,800 local nonprofit organization, nonprofit fundraising affiliates. Prior to 2015, United Way was the largest nonprofit organization in the United States by donations from the public. Individual Un ...

name. Since 1980, America's Charities has represented such charities as Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, Give Kids The World Village,

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Special Contributions Fund, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and The

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in workplace giving campaigns. In 2002, after a scandal at United Way of the National Capital Area (Washington, D.C.), America's Charities was selected by numerous major employers to help them administer their workplace giving campaigns. These employers included Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, AARP, National Geographic and some 15 others. In 2004, the United Way of the National Capital Area suspended America's Charities from that fall's United Way campaign, stating that America's Charities had "violated the terms of agreement". By 2008, America's Charities was raising more than $34 million for its members and more than 5,000 other charities in the U.S. from workplace giving campaigns. America's Charities offered clients a state-of-the art web-based system for employer use in conducting workplace campaigns. This system, PledgeFirst, was used by leading employers such as

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, the City of Orlando, and

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. PledgeFirst was phased out beginning in 2015. Today, America's Charities partners with various technology providers to offer employers a suite of workplace giving tools. In late July 2019, America's Charities acquired the Causecast giving platform, which "expands America’s Charities suite of giving and engagement solutions."{{Cite web, url=https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news/causecast-acquired-by-americas-charities/, title=Causecast Acquired By America's Charities, website=The NonProfit Times, language=en, access-date=2019-08-06

External links

America's Charities
Official site.
Charity Giving

References

Charities based in the United States Social welfare charities based in the United States 501(c)(3) organizations Non-profit organizations based in Virginia

Background

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