Firms giving back: Expensify offers $100K to grassroots campaigns

February 12, 2021 3:22 PM

Expensify offers $100K in matching funds to ten grassroots movements; Avalara launches its "Standing with Black-Owned Businesses" promotion; and Anders CPAs and Advisors releases its 2020 Community Impact Report.

ANDERS CPAS + ADVISORS

Anders CPAs and Advisors has released Community Impact Report, which summarizes the firm's involvement in the community in the past year.

Among the report's findings, the firm found it supported 242 local organizations in all, awarded $191,000 in charitable sponsorships, and donated over $7,800 to its 2020 Charity of Choice.

The full report is available on Anders' site here.

AVALARA

To honor Black History Month, Avalara has announced the Avalara Together: Standing with Black-Owned Businesses promotion, which looks to provide one free year of a 10,000-transaction AvaTax sales tax calculation account for businesses that are at least 51-percent owned by people who self-identify as Black.

The offer is sponsored by the Avalara Ujima Employee Resource Group for Black Avalarians. Ujima is the third principle of Kwanzaa and means “collective work and responsibility.” The new promotion that hopes to make sales tax automation more affordable for Black-owned small businesses, while also helping the company identify and reach new markets that can benefit from automation.

More information is available on Avalara's site here.

EXPENSIFY

Expensify announced it is looking to award $100,000 in matching funds to ten grassroots movements that help create a "fairer, more inclusive, and just world."

Submissions are welcome through April 30, 2021. Expensify asks that submissions focus on one or more of the following five areas: climate, housing, hunger, reentry, and youth. Ten winners will be awarded matching funds, with five winners receiving a minimum of $25,000, four with $50,000, and one receiving at least $100,000.

"There are incredible people that are out in their communities every day, spending their own time and money, organizing to fight injustice,” said Puneet Lath, director at Expensify, in a statement. “Expensify.org wants to partner with groups that have a high potential impact on complex social problems resulting from systemic injustice, then provide resources to help them attract more volunteers to further their causes.”

Campaign proposals will be voted on by Expensify.org donors. Voting will close on June 1, with two winning proposals announced in each of the five funds.

More information is available on Expensify's site here.