What is a Double Your Impact offer?
A Double Your Impact offer is a way for a corporation or a foundation to double the impact of its gift by offering a 50% match offer to projects that meet certain criteria.
Here's how it works:
- The corporation or foundation selects the eligibility criteria for projects (by subject area, school location, etc).
- Teachers submit projects at DonorsChoose.org. Once projects are approved and posted, all projects that meet the given criteria automatically qualify for the Double Your Impact (match) offer. There is no special application process for consideration.
- Using our website’s technology, projects that qualify for this 50% match offer will appear on the site as 50% funded with the foundation or corporate logo on the project page. However, funding is only applied to projects if citizens fund the other 50% before the grant runs out or before the project expires.
For example, the Bailey Building & Loan Association has decided to put up a $25,000 Double Your Impact offer for all classroom projects in Bedford Falls. Ms. Hatch teaches in Bedford Falls, and although her project costs $500, it is listed as needing only $250 thanks to the Double Your Impact offer. Once the remaining $250 is given by other donors, it "unlocks" the Bailey Double Your Impact offer, the funding is applied, and the project is fully funded.
However, if Ms. Hatch's project does not receive the remaining $250 in donations before the entire $25,000 grant is spent out on other Bedford Falls projects, then the Double Your Impact offer is withdrawn from her project. If this is the case, the Bedford Falls logo will disappear from her project page and the project price will return to its original amount.
A list of current funding opportunities is distributed to all registered teachers monthly via our teacher newsletter. You can also view these opportunities via our teacher homepage, under “Announcements.”
