About Community Shares USA

Community Shares USA is a nation-wide collaboration of state, regional and local federations connecting donors to over 1,000 social justice, women's, and environmental and service organizations. Community Shares USA organizations' common bond is their dedication to community-based problem solving and social justice. Your gift to a Community Shares USA federation builds a just, sustainable world by helping real people work to end poverty, reduce violence, build housing, provide health care, fight discrimination, build peace and meet urgent needs.

Community Shares USA was created in order to provide employees of national corporations the means to support local charities, women's groups and social justice organizations.

Community Shares USA unites communities and challenges injustice. Community Shares USA organizations change laws and hearts and minds, and they do this critical work on lean budgets, with volunteers and gifts from people like you.

Frequently Asked Questions:

What is Community Shares USA?

Community Shares USA is a collaborative fund raising organization that represents local and regional social justice oriented charities and women's groups in corporate workplace giving campaigns.

Who created Community Shares USA?

Community Shares USA was created by locally based social justice workplace fundraising federations in order to provide employees of national corporations the means to support locally-based service and social justice organizations. Each member federation represents numerous local and regional charities. These federations were created by their member charities for the purpose of raising awareness and financial support through workplace fundraising campaigns.

What is the mission of Community Shares USA?

Community Shares USA creates and maintains workplace payroll deduction fundraising campaigns for corporations that want to offer social justice, women's and environmental oriented charities as giving options to their employees. Community Shares USA partners with corporations that operate in more than one state.

Why do corporations partner with Community Shares USA?

Community Shares USA makes it simple and inexpensive for corporations to offer their employees a uniform slate of local social justice charities:

• Community Shares USA provides a list of local options for all communities where a corporation has a substantial employee presence.
  
• Community Shares USA certifies that each charity on the list meets minimum charitable standards.
  
• Community Shares USA simplifies corporate interaction with participating charities by providing a "Lead Federation" as the point of contact between the corporation and the Community Shares USA members. The lead federation also serves as the fiscal agent for Community Shares USA members, receiving the employees' contributions and processing them through to the designated federations and charities.