NCUF's Steve Delfin Selected as New CEO of Workplace Giving Group
Don Sodo is retiring at the end of the year as President and CEO of America's Charities, a national non-profit organization that helps employers run customized, low cost, high-tech workplace giving campaigns. His replacement will be Steve Delfin, Executive Director of the National Credit Union Foundation, who has served on the America's Charities board of directors for over 10 years, including his current term as chairman.
Sodo joined America's Charities as President and CEO in 1987 after working with a number of non-profit organizations, including Public Citizen, where he was a senior executive, the Pan American Development Foundation, and the Foundation for Exceptional Children. He also was a teacher for seven years. He currently serves on the boards of three national non-profit organizations and one local charity.
Sodo is the founding chair of Charities@Work, a coalition of four national charity federations (America's Charities, Community Health Charities, Earth Share and Global Impact). He also chaired the National Federations Committee for the Combined Federal Campaign and was a leader in the successful effort to pass CFC reform legislation. Sodo has testified before Congress and spoken at numerous corporate and philanthropic conferences. He holds a B.S. degree in Management Science from the University of Detroit and an M.A. in Human Resource Management from George Mason University. His volunteer activities have focused on youth and adult recreation, education, services for disabled youth, and domestic violence prevention organizations.
America's Charities' members include over 200 national and local charities serving people and communities across the United States and around the world, including Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America, Ronald McDonald House Charities®, NAACP Special Contribution Fund, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Teach for America, Reading is Fundamental, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Junior Achievement, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Goodwill Industries International, Hospice America, Meals On Wheels Association of America, Share Our Strength, National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, Southern Poverty Law Center, and many more.
These members participate in over 600 employee giving campaigns, reaching some 10 million employees annually through programs at Lockheed Martin, American Express, ExxonMobil, AAA National Headquarters, Gannett, American Airlines, Dell Computers, National Geographic, UnitedHealth Group, United Airlines, SRA International, USA Today, plus 260 campaigns within the U.S. Government's Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) and 180 campaigns through state and local governments.
Nearly $500 million in employee donations has been raised by America's Charities for its member charities and others, including $30 million in 2008. The organization's model emphasizes its Big Five Best Practices:
- Customized campaigns
- Designated giving
- State-of-the-art technology
- Lower costs
- Trust, transparency and customer service.
America's Charities methodology differs from the United Ways, which have in recent years changed their focus to raising funds for their own community impact grant program, aggregating dollars and distributing money to charities that meet specific criteria, and away from promoting giving to charities the donor designates.
America's Charities mission is to develop the spirit of caring and sharing at the workplace and run campaigns that respond to the needs of employers and employees. We do this by providing employers and employees with efficient, effective, low-cost workplace giving campaigns; offering a broad range of charity choices that reflect the diversity of the American people; and then providing charities with the financial resources they need to carry out their mission.
Contacts:
for America's Charities
Katherine Hutt, 703-938-4540
KHutt@NautilusCommunications.com
