Corporate Matching Gifts

Angela Tuttle

I am interested to hear how others are tracking their Matching gifts. We are using Double the Donation/Match Pro 360 however for us it has not made a huge impact. We have several gifts marked as Match Initiated or Waiting for Donor, however some of these are old enough now that we should have heard from the MG Company.

Dariel Dixon

I don't know what “old enough” is, but it does make me chuckle a bit, because matching gifts can take forever. At a previous employer, I had an individual make a gift on the last day of the calendar to get matched. That organization only disbursed once a year, so it was almost an entire year before those funds got to us. I've seen matches take over a year sometimes, and it is frustrating, because there is not really a way to check and verify the status of these gifts.