You Are Defined by What You Give

[B]cause Media supports giving back to the community.

Investing in your community is a great way to give back to those who have helped support your business.

As members of the community, we have a responsibility to help those that are less fortunate and contribute to the common good. [B]cause Media feels this so strongly that we’ve come up with two different ways our clients can give back.

Instant Contribution

We donate a minimum of 5% of our service fees to charitable organizations of the client’s choice. Simply let us know which charity speaks to your heart and we will contact the organization and send them the donation in your honor.

Service Rewards Program

One of our strong desires at [B]cause Media is to ensure that our business model reflects our personal beliefs — giving back to our community to make it a better place. We do that by volunteering and donating to causes and organizations that speak close to our hearts.  Rarely, a weekend goes by without us doing some type of volunteer work — online or offline.

In the spirit volunteering and engaging our clients to give back to their community, we have come up with a service rewards price plan. Every hour you or your company (a team) volunteers in the community, we will donate $10 (every volunteer hour) of your [B]cause Media service fees to the cause or charity of your choice. For example, if your company volunteers at the local community garden or food bank for 10 hours, you get to donate $100 of your [B]cause Media service fees to any nonprofit or cause. Sweet, right?

There are rules:

* The volunteer hours must be done within the service contract period with [B]cause Media | Social Media Communications
* Community service must be approved by a staff prior to participating in the [B]cause Media Service Rewards Program
* We have the right to approve or disapprove the community service (i.e., walking your neighbor’s dog is not an approved community service project, but participating in Meals-on-Wheels and transporting hot food to those in need is an approved community service project).
* Maximum of 20 volunteer hours allowed to earn [B]cause Media Service Rewards. However, that shouldn’t stop you from continuing to volunteer

Here are some of the charities [B]cause Media supports:

Heifer International www.heifer.org

Heifer International Portland portland.heiferblog.org

Share www.sharevancouver.org

Mercy Corps www,mercycorps.org

American Red Cross (Oregon Trail Chapter) www.redcross-pdx.org

Sisters of the Road www.sistersoftheroad.org

Spirit Jump spiritjump.org

Street Roots www.streetroots.org

However, the choice is yours to decide which nonprofit organization receives your contribution. Choose the charity that speaks to your heart. Visit Idealist.org, Charity Navigator or GuideStar for information about nonprofit organizations and where your donations goes.

Give what you can regularly to the charities that make a difference to your local and national community. The pleasant feeling of connectedness and the satisfaction of at least trying to make the world a better place will warm your heart as well as others in your community.