$13-Million Raised in On-the-Job Drives

February 8, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute

By NICOLE WALLACE

Charitableway, a company in San Carlos, Calif., managed 12 electronic on-the-job giving campaigns this fall that brought in a total of more than $13-million for charity.

The campaigns — administered for companies such as Agilent Technologies, the Hewlett-Packard Company, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Samsung — reached more than 162,000 donors.

Burke Inc., a research company in Cincinnati, conducted a survey of 621 employees who participated in the campaigns.

The survey found that, while only 12 percent of the employees had made an online contribution before, 85 percent reported that they were as satisfied or more satisfied with the online donation process as they were with paper pledge systems.

Seventy-five percent said they felt the same or higher levels of confidence in the security and privacy of their pledges.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.