Employee Giving Campaign/Appeal/Fund Structure

Wow, after reading that I feel my structure may be overly simplified! For ours, we maintain a single fiscal year campaign (the fiscal year the $ is actually deducted from payroll). Under this campaign, our org, in general, has 30+funds, but those remain constant year after year, and most employees select the fund in line with which program they serve. Since all employees learn during onboarding about the optional employee giving, we do not use an appeal structure at all, but if your org prefers to use one I would not make it variable. I would set up an appeal simply labeled “employee giving” that has no end date. In a batch design, this only leaves two variables: we must change the campaign at the rollover of the fiscal year or add/deduct employees as they come and go from the org. We can then pull amounts by campaign year for a total employee contribution, or pull amounts by fund designation. Our rationale for zero appeal and zero fundraiser credit stems from the belief that employee giving should in no way be incentivized since all salaries, all tenures, and all family situations do not allow for all employees to actively donate while some employees could honestly afford to donate their entire check! We believe their salary is for personal budget use vs org budget use and, at heart, every employee is an ambassador and “fundraiser” in their own right.