Before acceptance
A researched business or prospect is not a Sponsor and is not shown publicly as one.
Optional financial participation
Sponsorship can support the mission without turning hosting into a paywall.
Financial sponsorship is designed as a separate choice from free Community Host participation. Any recognition must remain truthful and appropriate to the eventual charitable structure.
- No organization is called a Sponsor before acceptance.
- No Sponsor payment is accepted on this pilot site.
- Name/logo acknowledgment is kept distinct from unreviewed commercial advertising.
- Recognition must not imply endorsement.
- Renewal and impact reporting are designed around verified evidence.
Recognition should follow evidence.
After acceptance
Approved recognition can use verified organization identity and the agreed acknowledgment format.
After measurement
Reports distinguish actual participation and attributable activity from goals or forecasts.
Future workplace participation
Employer match awareness
Where an employer has a verified matching program, a future giving experience can make that opportunity visible without promising that a gift qualifies.
Workplace campaigns
Employers may eventually support Franklin-focused giving or volunteer campaigns through a governed participation path separate from public cold-email prospecting.
Aggregate reporting
Participation reporting should use verified totals and protect individual employee giving information.
Current state: no employer, matching, payroll or workplace-giving integration is active.
Employer matching facts must be verified before display
Evidence comes from the owning lane
Main Product can display a verified employer matching fact supplied through a governed research or Revenue handoff. It does not scrape employers or infer a program from a company name.
No employee eligibility promise
Even when an employer program is verified, Franklin Helps must not promise that a specific employee or gift qualifies. Eligibility stays with the employer or authorized matching provider.
Matching visibility follows verified program facts
A future employer-match message should appear only after a governed source confirms the program. Even then, the product does not promise that a particular employee, gift or organization qualifies; those decisions remain with the employer or authorized matching provider.
Employer information stays optional
You can decline to provide an employer
A future matching-gift lookup should allow an explicit “prefer not to provide” state. Franklin Helps should not retain an employer reference when a supporter declines.
Program fact is not personal eligibility
Even after an employer program is identified from a governed source, the product shows the program as verified, inactive, unknown or needing recheck. It still does not infer whether a particular person or gift qualifies.
Future sponsorship can fund local capacity while free hosting stays free.
The Sponsor path is designed for businesses that want to support the work financially after activation, with clear recognition boundaries and evidence-backed reporting rather than implied endorsement.
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