Did you know that your donation of cash, a Sponsor or Life Membership, volunteer hours or auction item purchases (above fair market value) can be increased or even doubled in just two easy steps? It's true -- if you work for a company that has a matching gift program.

Many employers will match that donation, in most cases dollar for dollar.

Just contact your  personnel office for the correct application form and returns the completed application to the Elk Foundation for processing. It’s that easy!

Matching Gifts that can be applied to the Elk Foundation:

  • Cash Donations (including Habitat Partnership gifts)
  • Sponsor and Life Memberships (tax-deductible portion)
  • Auction Item Purchases (that exceed fair-market value)
  • Volunteer Hours

How do I get involved?
Several hundred companies participate in the Employer Matching Gift Program. Contact your local personnel office to see if your company participates in this program. If your company does not participate, ask your personnel office, your local Elk Foundation field director, or Elk Foundation headquarters for more information on how to get a matching gift program started. If your company is not on the list below, they still might match gifts to the Elk Foundation.

What benefits are received by companies that participate in this program?
This program helps boost employee morale and build corporate image. Participating companies get an opportunity to do something beneficial for the wildlife and habitat that mean so much to their employees. Although companies are not eligible for Habitat Partnerships through this program, they may still become a Habitat Partner through the Habitat Partner Program.

For more information, please contact:
Michelle Tucker
Major Gifts Coordinator
800-CALL ELK
Ext. 479
mtucker@rmef.org


Companies That Currently Match Elk Foundation Donations
Aid Association For Lutherans/Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
American Express Foundation
Arco Foundation
Aspect
Bank of America Foundation
Bankers Trust Company
Barnes Group Foundation Inc.
BFGoodrich Company
Black And Decker
Blount Foundation
Boeing Company
Bohannan – Huston Inc.
BP/Amoco
Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Champion International Corp.
Chase Manhattan Foundation
Chubb & Son
Cisco Foundation
Citigroup Foundation
Coach
Cooper Industries Foundation
Dominion Foundation
Enron Corp.
Envirosource Inc.
Equistar Chemicals Lp
Exxon Mobil Foundation Inc.
Fannie Mae Foundation
First Interstate Bancsystem
Fleet Boston Financial
Fort James Foundation
Gannett Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
Greater Bay Bancorp Foundation
Hamilton Sunstrand/A United Technologies Company
Home Depot
IBM
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
J.C. Bradford and Co.
John Hancock
Kimberly Clark Foundation
Land O'Lakes Foundation
Lost Arrow Corp. / Patagonia
McGraw - Hill Companies
McDonnell Douglas Foundation
Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation
Microsoft
Millipore Foundation
Monsanto Company
Motorola Foundation
NSTAR Foundation
National Starch & Chemical
Nationwide Foundation
New England Business Service
Newmont Gold Co.
NorthWestern Energy
Pepsico Foundation
Pfizer Foundation
Philip Morris Companies/Altria
PG & E
Piper Jaffray Companies
Plum Creek Foundation
Portland General Electric
PPG Industries Foundation
PPL Montana
PQ Corporation
Prudential Foundation
Quad/Graphics
Quebecor Printing Atglen Inc.
QWest Foundation
Raychem HTS
Safeco Insurance Co.
Sara Lee Foundation
Smith Barney Inc.
Spear Leeds & Kellogg
State Farm Companies
Sun Microsystems
Sunstrand Corp.
Temple Inland Foundation
The Toro Foundation
Times Mirror Foundation
Tyco Thermal Controls
Unilever United States Foundation
Union Pacific Corp.
United Drilling Inc.
United Power
United Technologies
US Bank
Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation
Vulcan Materials Company
Washington Mutual Foundation
Westinghouse Foundation
Williams Companies
Wisconsin Public Service Found
WMX Technologies Inc.
Xcel Energy Foundation
Zevenbergen Capital Inc.

*PLEASE NOTE that each company has its own guidelines and policies regarding its matching gift program. Verify with your personnel department what contributions they will match and what information they will need.

RMEF Chapters get "full credit" for Matching Gifts

In basic terms, this program does just what it says - it will match your donation, often dollar for dollar. Money doesn't come much easier than that.

To receive a matching gift, a member contacts his or her personnel office for the correct application form, completes it, and returns the original application and Worksheet No. 7 to RMEF headquarters. The matching gift will be credited to your chapter as soon as the paperwork is received (including the match). If the forms are not received at headquarters, we may not be able to credit your chapter.

Mail to:
RMEF
5705 Grant Creek Road
P.O. Box 8249
Missoula, MT 59807-8249

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