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Giving Through Your Workplace

There are a number of ways that you can maximize your giving to MCC through your place of work:

For example, if you choose to give $20 per paycheck and you are paid biweekly, your contributions will total $520 in one year, without much change in your NET take home pay. There could not be an easier way to increase your tax-deductible charitable support and become a major contributor to Mennonite Central Committee!

Does your employer offer a Payroll Giving Plan?

Payroll Giving is one of the easiest ways to make your donation since your employer processes everything without you having to write a cheque. Your employer deducts your donation directly from your pay and gives one cheque to Mennonite Central Committee at the end of the year, possibly doubling the amount if there is a matched giving policy in place. You then receive one tax receipt early in the New Year for your entire previous year's contribution for income tax purposes. If your employer does not have a Payroll Giving plan suggest that they start one. It is easy and inexpensive to run.

 

Remember that you can contribute to MCC through the United Way if this is the charity set up by your employer. Just make note that you want to support Mennonite Central Committee Alberta (Charitable registration number) and the United Way will generously forward your gift.

 

There are many other ways of supporting Mennonite Central Committee through your workplace.

Ask your employer if they have a matching gift policy. Your donation to MCC may be matched by your company, doubling the contribution you will make to responding to basic human needs and working for peace and justice.  

You could also approach your company for a corporate gift to Mennonite Central Committee and have the staff take action in a workplace campaign to in response to a natural disaster or to support an MCC community initiative or project that fits with your companies charitable giving interests.