Business Boost FAQs
Q. What is Business Boost?
The Business Boost is an employee engagement program of Give BIG Green Bay. It offers local businesses a way to highlight their commitment to community philanthropy while inspiring and empowering employees and stakeholders to give back. Your employees can support the causes they care about, discover new ones, and spark friendly competition — all to benefit the community.
Q. What does it mean to participate in the Business Boost?
Business Boost participants are local companies who choose to support the community during Give BIG Green Bay by setting up a custom business profile on the GiveBIGgreenbay.org website. This profile allows each company to showcase their logo, mission, and commitment to the community.
Companies can set fundraising goals, participation goals or simply use the day to promote a culture of giving back.
Participants are provided a variety of engagement tools to encourage their employees to learn about and support any of the 50 participating nonprofits during the 24-hour giving day. When giving a gift, your employees will be able to select your company name at checkout. Their donation will then appear on your company’s profile page and will count toward your goal for the event. Goals can be based on either a dollar amount or a percentage of employee participation. To see this page in action, click here.
Q. What is the financial commitment to participate?
There is no cost to participate in the Business Boost. Our goal with this program is to broaden awareness of the event and encourage people to learn about local nonprofits and support their critical work. It also provides an opportunity for you to strengthen your company culture and demonstrate your company values.
Q. What are the benefits of involvement?
The Business Boost encourages employees to learn about and give back to causes that are meaningful to them. Additionally, your business will receive:
- A customized profile page on the giveBIGgreenbay.org to share your company’s mission, logo, goals, and reasons for participating.
- Easily share your page with your employees and stakeholders as an access point Give BIG Green Bay.
- Social media mentions leading up to the BIG day.
Increase awareness of your company’s commitment to our community and alignment with other community-minded organizations around an exciting community event.
Q. What is expected of participating businesses?
We ask for your commitment to engaging employees and increasing awareness of Give BIG Green Bay. A provided Business Boost toolkit will simplify the process with provided logos, sample email and social media messaging, employee engagement ideas, and more.
Q. What are the important dates?
- The public announcement of the nonprofits participating in Give BIG Green Bay 2026 will be January 13 in the Lambeau Field Atrium.
- The countdown to Give BIG Green Bay is two weeks prior to the event: Feb 11-25.
- Give BIG Green Bay 2026 begins at noon on Wednesday, February 25, and ends at noon on Thursday, February 26.
Q. How do you set up a profile
View this step-by-step guide from our giving day partner, GiveGab. A profile can be established in as little as 10 minutes.
Q. What is Give BIG Green Bay?
Give BIG Green Bay is an online giving event designed to transform the way local residents think about and contribute to Brown County charities. The simple online giving platform, giveBIGgreenbay.org, provides a way for everyone to learn more about the work of selected nonprofits and donate, at any level, to causes they champion. The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation and the Green Bay Packers use their community leadership platforms to fuel excitement around the important work nonprofits do for our community and provide an opportunity for donor support.
Q. How does an employee designate their gift toward a Business Boost page?
Employees will be able to select your business name at checkout after making their donation. Their donation will then appear on your business profile page and will count toward your organization's goal for the event. Goals can be based on either a dollar amount or a percentage of employee participation.
Q. Can individuals make anonymous donations?
Yes, all donors have the option to remain anonymous.
Q. What forms of donations are accepted?
Give BIG Green Bay is an online giving event. All major credit cards (MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express) are accepted and processed via Stripe, a PCI level 1 secure payment processor, at givebiggreenbay.org. PayPal is also available at checkout and processed via their independent platform. ACH is available for gift of $100 or more.
Donor-advised fundholders of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation will have the option to make contributions from their donor-advised funds to support the participating nonprofits.
Donors unable to make a gift online can hand-deliver a check to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation office between noon on February 25 and 10:00am on February 26, 2026. Checks delivered after 10:00am on February 26 are not guaranteed to be included in the match.
Check processing fees: Checks below $100 - 5% of the check amount. Checks above $100 - $5.00 flat fee. These fees will be reinvested into the match pool.
The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation does not retain any fees related to Give BIG Green Bay.
Cash will not be accepted.
Q. Is there a minimum gift?
There is a $5 minimum donation.
Q. Is there a donation deadline?
Donations can be made through Give BIG Green Bay beginning at noon on Wednesday, February 25, and ending at noon on Thursday, February 26, 2026. All online donations made during this timeframe qualify for matching funds.
If you miss the Give BIG Green Bay event, we encourage you to donate directly to the nonprofit of your choice. It’s important that we continue to support nonprofits year-round to build a thriving community.
Q. What are the transaction fees?
All donations will be paid to the nonprofits net of the transaction and platform processing fees as outlined below. For example, $93.80 of a $100 donation made with a credit card will go directly to the selected nonprofit. Donors have the option to cover the fees during check out on the website. The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation does not retain any fees related to Give BIG Green Bay.
GGBCF donor advised fund transactions are exempt from fees.
Transactions include a platform fee of 3.5% + 2.5% +$0.30 for credit cards donations 1.99% +$0.49 for PayPal donations $3.00 flat fee for ACH payment of $100 or more.
Check processing fees: Checks below $100 - 5% of the check amount. Checks above $100 - $5.00 flat fee.