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About 7 years ago, my team was asked to assist at a university hack-a-thon focused on addressing inequalities, poverty and health. We wanted to bring attention to our dev cloud platform, but had no money budgeted for prize give aways. Out of need, we decided to try a hack ourselves. In the 3 week lead-up to the hack-a-thon, we short-listed 4-5 approved charities that qualified for matching employee credit. Using our dev cloud platform, we quickly stood up an internal facing crowd-funding site explaining our goal to raise funds to internal employees. These funds would be assigned to one of the short-listed companies, but was as yet unassigned. During the hack-a-thon, our selected winner was given the opportunity to pick which charity should receive the prior raised funds. We then completed the matching funds forms for all contributing employees and asked them to sign and submit. It was a great experience on so many levels. We raised $800, definitely more than we would have normally received for a hack-a-thon prize. It was matched for another $800 by our company a few months later during the annual cycle. A children's hospital received an unexpected $1600 for their discretionary fund (crayons, art supplies, music, ...). We had a real-world example of how our dev platform could bring quick value to an idea. It really got us thinking about how much more efficient our corporate matching processes could be. I salute initiatives like the OP.