iamb55
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8 years ago I think this is a great idea. We've definitely donated employee time informally, but that should be in the policy. I'll look into what it takes to match donations from an administration standpoint (which is a major hurdle in 7 person benefits), but would love to add this.
Clef has a great array of perks and benefits, but I think an important one that's missing (and would fit in well with the founder's values) is matching contributions to (local?) nonprofits. It should likely be restricted to donations made to 501(c)(3) public charity organizations (the tax-deductible donations kind - not to private foundations or political action committees or campaigns).
It might make sense for these matching contributions to be capped. If so, perhaps matching contributions could come out of the same pool of money set aside for continuing education. This allows more employees to take advantage of the $4k/yr, and more fully (since tuition or other expenses likely wouldn't be a nice round number, this would allow employees to use their remaining benefit).
Similarly, Clef should be open to donating employee time to nonprofits. This could be from the same pool of time as the work hours for learning projects (although the cap of 4 hrs/wk might need to be restructured to a cap of 8-16 hrs/wk, accumulating at a rate of 4 hrs/wk to make this feasible).