Wish you could give twice as much to the PTA?  Maybe you can…

There are many companies that match their employees’ non-profit, charitable contributions, which means that what you donate could increase by 50-200% depending on your company’s matching gift program.  One of the easiest ways to help CTES meet our direct donation goal is through corporate matching programs.

Companies have different procedures to obtain the match, but most of the time it is as simple as filling out a form via your company’s website or getting a form from Human Resources. 

Please note that our Federal Tax ID# for Non Profit Status is 26-0284404.  Your form may have a section to be filled out by our Treasurer, Jeff Bush; if so, please send your form into school in an envelope marked “Treasurer, PTA.”  Our Treasurer will fill out that portion of your form and mail it to your company or back to you, whichever is indicated.

The following companies reportedly offer “matching gift” programs.  If you or someone in your family works for one of these companies, please ask them about their matching gift programs.  If your company is not listed – please check with them!  They may have a program and we are just not aware of it.  Please let us know so we can add them to our list.

Thank you for all you do to support our school!

 A Sample List of Corporations with Matching Gift Programs is listed below.  At the end of the list are a few web sites that lets you check to see if a company has a matching gift program available.

Aetna Foundation
AIG Insurance Company
American Express
Apple
ARAMARK Corporation
A T & T
Avon Products, Inc.
Bank of America
Benjamin Moore & Co.
Black and Decker
Brinks
Budget Rent-A-Car
Capital One
Champion Int’l Corp.
Charles Schwab Corp.
Cigna Corp
Cisco Systems
Citicorp/Citibank
CITGO Petroleum
Coca-Cola Company
3COM Corporation
Dominion Resources
Dominion VA Power
Equitable Life Assurance
Fidelity Investments
Fluor Corp
Fort James Corp
GAP Foundation
GEICO
General Dynamics
General Electric
Genworth
H & R Block
Home Depot
John Hancock Mutual Life
Johnson & Johnson
Kemper National Insurance
Kimberly Clark Corp
Lawyers Title Insurance
Lexmark International
Lowes Corp
Macy & Co
McDonald’s
Merrill Lynch
Mobil Oil Corp
Neiman-Marcus
Nike, Inc.
Northwestern Mutual Investments
Oppenheimer Funds
Pella Corp
Pennzoil Company
PepsiCo Foundation
Pfizer Inc.
Philip Morris Companies
Pitney Bowes, Inc.
Polaroid Corp
State Farm
Texaco
Toys R Us
Verizon
Wachovia
Waste Management

The following are a few links where you can go to look check if your company has a matching gift program if it is not listed above:

Matchinggifts.com search engine: (http://www.matchinggifts.com/demo.cfm)
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center search engine:  http://www.matchinggifts.com/mdanderson/