America's Charities

America's Charities is a federation of approximately 180 charitable organizations. America's Charities organizes workplace giving campaigns in the United States administered through the federal government, state and local government, and private sector corporations and provides the proceeds to its member charities. It is based in Chantilly, Virginia.

Background

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

Since 1980, America's Charities has represented such charities as Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, Give Kids The World Village, NAACP Special Contributions Fund, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and The Humane Society of the United States 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. By 2008, America's Charities was distributing over $8 million annually from employee/donors in the Washington, D.C. area to hundreds of local and national charities.

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".^[1]

By 2008, America's Charities was raising over $34 million for its members and over 5,000 other charities in the U.S. from workplace giving campaigns. America's Charities offers clients a state-of-the art web-based system for employer use in conducting workplace campaigns. This system, Pledge1st, is used by leading employers such as Lockheed Martin, AARP, the City of Orlando, and Amazon.

See also

• Spoons Across America
• United Way of America

External links

• America's Charities Official site.
• Charity Giving

References

1. ↑ Washington Post, Wednesday, July 14, 2004; Page B01 – United Way Suspends Nonprofit ≠– America's Charities' Role Is Questioned – By Jacqueline L. Salmon, Staff Writer