Business Resources

Good, for all!

Partnering with the Sacramento Region Community Foundation to power the success of Big Day of Giving makes an impact across a four-county footprint and achieves your organization's goals. There are a variety of ways that you can engage in this community movement, each offering opportunities for visibility, employee engagement, and support from the Foundation. Get in touch with our team to learn which engagement opportunities are right for you. We're happy to help!

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Team Building, Community Building

Facilitate a collective giving campaign for your stakeholders — employees, customers, vendors — right on the Big Day of Giving website! Two tools make it easy to inspire local giving, encourage member loyalty, offer matching opportunities, and access real-time reporting to tally your team's impact!

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Group Fundraiser

For groups that would like to encourage their broad audiences to donate and tally progress toward a shared goal, without the competitive element of friendly competition in a Team Fundraiser. Click the button below to get started. You'll be prompted to log in or create an account on GivingEdge, then walk through the simple steps to create a Group Fundraiser.

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Team Fundraiser

A fun choice for teams whose members would like to inspire friendly competition between their fundraising pages with a leaderboard that tallies progress toward shared and individual goals. Click the button below to get started. You'll be prompted to log in or create an account on GivingEdge, then walk through the simple steps to create a Group Fundraiser.

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Promote Local Giving

Serve as an instrumental player in this powerful generosity movement. Promotional partners amplify their presence and commitment to our community by displaying Big Day of Giving yard signs at their businesses, displaying posters and flyers, posting on social media, including Big Day of Giving in your newsletters, and more. Customize the sample messages below to inspire your networks. You can pair them messages with the graphics we've added to this page or the dozens more that are available in our full Marketing Toolkit, or search "Big Day of Giving" in your favorite GIF app for Big Day of Giving-branded GIFs!

Once you've promoted local giving during Big Day of Giving, let us know. We'll list your organization among Big Day of Giving's Outreach Partners.

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Sample Message #1

Ready. Set. Give! At [business name/organization name], we believe in giving back and supporting the local nonprofits that bring so much good to our community! 

We challenge you to join us. Go to www.bigdayofgiving.org on Thursday, May 2, and make a gift to any of the hundreds of causes that are included in the easy-to-search database of local nonprofits. Donations as little as $10 make a big difference, and your gifts can help nonprofits win prizes, too!

Sample Message #2

Local nonprofits have shined these past few years. From food banks to youth workshops to animal shelters, we've seen the power of nonprofits to serve our community, create solutions, change lives, and nurture hope. Now, during the Sacramento Region Community Foundation's annual Big Day of Giving, let’s rally around the organizations that make [the capital area/county/city] our home, and do so much good for us all!

On Thursday, May 2, join [me/business name/organization name] and help others by making a gift to any of the local causes listed at www.bigdayofgiving.org. Every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference…and has the chance to help nonprofits win additional prizes, too. Take action. Make a gift to the causes YOU  care about at www.bigdayofgiving.org.

Sample Newsletter Blurb

The twelfth annual giving day to support Sacramento area nonprofits, Big Day of Giving, is Thursday, May 4. Local organizations have shined over these past few years — from food banks to youth workshops to animal shelters, nonprofits have served our communities, created solutions, changed lives, and nurtured hope. Now, let's rally around them during Big Day of Giving! 

Want to help? Go to www.bigdayofgiving.org on Thursday, May 2, and make a gift to any of the causes that are included in the easy-to-search database of local nonprofits. Donations as little as $10 make a big difference, and your gifts can help nonprofits win prizes, too.

You can also help by spreading the word. Let your friends and family know about the causes you support by sharing on your social media accounts, or by building a fundraising campaign on the Big Day of Giving website. You can find ready-made graphics for sharing at www.bigdayofgiving.org and give an extra boost to your favorite cause.

Since 2013, Big Day of Giving has raised $91 million for local nonprofits. It’s organized by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation as part of an initiative to grow philanthropic giving in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties. It's made possible by support from Western Health Advantage and other generous sponsors.

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Sponsor Generosity

Support Big Day of Giving through a financial sponsorship by making a tax-deductible donation directly to the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. 

If your business would like to bring our community together, ignite personal philanthropy, and strengthen our nonprofit sector, contact Kelly Siefkin, Chief Philanthropy Officer, at kelly@sacregcf.org or (916) 921-7723 ext. 2701. 

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Have questions about GivingEdge, Big Day of Giving, the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, opening a charitable fund to support your philanthropic giving, or another piece of our work? Please connect with our team, who are always happy to assist.

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