If we could receive every donation through Benevity’s system we would. It is by far the easiest – we don’t need to do a thing to confirm donations in order to get a match, payments are more frequent and are deposited directly into our account so we don’t need to allocate our staff to the administrative chores other systems impose on us.

Race Forward was struggling to move all of our work to remote platforms—while simultaneously meeting extraordinary new demand to provide racial justice training, equity practice, and narrative work to partners across the country… And then we started receiving donations from people through Benevity. We felt seen. Lifted up. Appreciated. Surrounded by partners in the fight for racial justice. And over the course of three months, Race Forward’s work was elevated from one company to another, and lifted up by one employee gift after another, until—instead of looking at the dread of cutbacks to our programmatic work in 2021, we were able to recommit to our partners with renewed sense of purpose in our work of catalyzing the racial justice movement.

Through the many employee giving campaigns that were created through Benevity, giving [to the Domestic Violence Hotline] increased by a staggering 2701%! As the pandemic continues, our contact volume continues to rise, and your support means more now than ever. Thank you for ensuring that when a survivor is ready to speak, we are here to listen.