Here's why billions of charitable giving dollars go unused every year
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As Giving Tuesday nears, more than 18 million people in America work for companies with charitable-donation matching programs, yet as much as $7 billion in donations from those companies go unused every year.
One of the biggest reasons for this is simple: People don't know their employer has one of these programs.
I know. I was one of those people until just recently.
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