As automaker General Motors announces large-scale layoffs affecting 14,000 workers in the US and Canada, local United Ways brace for impact. Of course, the largest impact will be among the workers, their families, and communities themselves.
United Way of Greater Cincinnati experiences internal, race-related challenges and a continued decline in revenue. Will the crisis, and how it is handled from here, make a difference in its role in that community?
The rapid plummeting of the Combined Federal Campaign’s workplace fundraising has continued unabated despite many attempts at reform, but is that because it is irrevocably fated by the times or because the program has failed to listen even in reform mode?
The federal government is not exempt from the larger trend of declining workplace giving. The Combined Federal Campaign is keeping mum, regardless.
Another United Way chapter navigates steep giving declines by redirecting its giving strategy.
A company called Bright Futures has developed an app that helps corporations set up donation match programs that are easier for employees to use, which could boost giving at the workplace.
United Way organizations all over the country are trying to re-engineer their roles to fit the new ecosystem of philanthropy. Since everything connects to everything else, as they change, so must many nonprofits.
The state employees’ workplace-giving campaign in Florida has finally been formally pronounced dead after years of headlines related to its decline and management.
In New York City, restaurants are now required to pass voluntary donations from their workers to nonprofits that are supporting them. As cities seek to empower workers in a transformed economy, this new labor model is likely to spread.
Companies seek to recruit millennials by offer social responsibility programs, but nonprofits don’t have to if they remember where their treasure lies.
