United E-way.org launches online workplace giving service

Howard Lake | 21 March 2001 | News

Local United Ways representing major markets throughout the

United States have announced the formation of United eWay.org. The consortium is a 501(c)(3) organisation dedicated to delivering custom internet-based workplace giving solutions to local United Ways and the organisations and employees they serve.

United eWay.org systems provide a way to manage and administer workplace campaigns. It says its service will lower significantly “the cost of creating unique company sites or new costly software while providing rich, customised content and comprehensive workplace giving features.”

The announcement comes just five days before pioneering workplace giving company Charitableway.com closes down.

Some of the benefits of United e-Way.org include:

• A web based utility, which allows the custom design of a unique workplace-giving site for each local United Way and each company so that every site is unique.
• Collaboration with and choices for campaign managers to author site content, choose giving options and define leadership levels and messages.
• Giving options consistent and popular with local United Way donors in a clear thoughtful manner supplemented with easy to use links to local and national agency databases.
• Seamless integration with corporate HR systems as well as United Way-specific pledge processing systems.
• Online reporting that provides action-oriented campaign management information to help assist company volunteers in managing their campaign.
• Manage regional and national company giving programs while fostering local United Way involvement and direction.
• Housed at a central site, the application is protected by

  sophisticated firewall and advanced application security including giving information encryption – earning the site VeriSign Secure Site certification.

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.