Volunteer Matching Grants

The Volunteer Matching Grants feature streamlines the process of verifying and approving volunteer grant applications, ensuring eligible employees receive matching donations for their volunteer hours. 

Key Benefits

For Employees:

✅ Easy submission process with automatic eligibility checks.

✅ Transparency on match status & remaining budget.

✅ Fast notifications on approval or denial.

✅ Increased chances of utilizing allocated volunteer match funds.

For Client Admins:

✅ Reduced workload with automation & bulk approval options.

✅ Greater visibility into match request data & trends.

✅ Customizable eligibility criteria & approval workflows.

✅ Improved budget utilization for volunteer match programs.

✅ Easily set up eligibility periods based on budget rules, with configurable grace periods.

For Nonprofits:

✅ Simple hours approval process

✅ Increased funding through improved reward conversion rates.

To add this feature to your platform, speak with your Program Success Manager.

How to Review and Approve Volunteer Grants

To review and approve volunteer grants navigate to Employees > then in the top right-hand corner click Approve Volunteer Grants.

This will take you to a table of pending employee submissions including the employee name, nonprofit organization, grant request (amount and number of hours), the volunteering date employee hire date (if provided), grant application date and volunteer hours approved. 

To review the details of the request, click on Details on the far right-hand-side. 

Note: to approve a volunteer grant, volunteer hours must first be approved. 

Note: some customers choose to have an approval step where the nonprofit confirms the employee did volunteer. If you choose to enable this, it will significantly lengthen the time from an application to an approval.

Review the details and either Reject or Approve the Volunteer Grant. The employee will be notified with the result. If approved, funds will be queued for disbursement to the nonprofit selected. 

Employee Experience

When an employee logs their volunteer hours, in their profile they can see a breakdown of hours applied, and next to it they can click Apply.

This will take them to a popup form to fill in the details of their volunteering or answer any custom questions your organization requires.