How to do it
Give as normal, then file a match request with your employer — usually a short online form or a portal. The employer confirms your gift with the Foundation and sends its own. Many companies match gifts from retirees and spouses too, which donors often don't realise.
Why it matters
A matched gift is the cheapest way to increase impact: the donor's out-of-pocket amount is unchanged and the university receives two or three times as much. The Foundation will walk a first-time matcher through their specific employer's process.
In and around Porter Falls
The UW–Porter Falls Foundation shares the Depot with admissions, which is deliberate: the people who fund scholarships and the students who receive them use the same front door. Most gifts to Porter are small, local and recurring.
The practical details
Check first: The matching-gift search on the giving site, by employer name. Ratio: Commonly 1:1, sometimes 2:1 or 3:1. Deadline: Employers set their own; most allow a match request months after the original gift. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is UW–Porter Falls Foundation & Alumni Relations (Welcome Center at the Depot). Call (715) 555–0280 or email foundation@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.