The Report of the National Project on Sharing Resources:
Developing Models of Collective Fundraising
for National Women's and Girls' Organizations

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Alternative Funds: Workplace Giving campaigns organized by federations of members other than the United Way

Coalition: An informal alliance of organizations or individuals who come together to accomplish a specific task or objective.

Collaboration/Collective: A voluntary contract between two or more... [organizations] with a common vision that place their dollars, effects, labour, and skill or some or all of them in lawful commerce or business with the understanding that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses between them.

Federation: An organization made up of participant members to raise and distribute funds, primarily through workplace giving to members

Donor Designation: A mechanism whereby a donor can assign a donation to a specific member organization of a federation in a workplace campaign

Foundation: A grant-making body which raises dollars through a variety of means and distributes these to applicants who meet stated criteria

Profit-Making Venture: An organization or an arm of an organization which raises net revenue through the sale of goods or services to a consumer market

Strategic Alliance: An agreement between two or more separate, independent (sometimes competing) organizations that work together to accomplish a specific objective( s) of mutual interest and benefit.

Workplace Giving: A fund-raising strategy which enables employees in a specific workplace to make donations to approved organizations through payroll deductions and other means

Mary Chrow

Suzanne Gibson

Ratna Omidvar