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• Published date: 01 March 2020
• Date: 01 March 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30737

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relevant evidence. But the panel observed that the

accompanying evidence was to the contrary because

the plaintiff had admitted in his deposition that the

director’s alleged comment was “very much out of

character,” and also because she had lled his position

with people of the same race.

The plaintiff next argued that the close temporal

proximity between the purported statement and his

termination suggested that racial bias had been in-

volved in his removal.

But the panel ruled that the alleged remark didn’t

imply that race had any inuence on any of the direc-

tor’s personnel decisions. It then ruled that the tem-

poral proximity was irrelevant because there wasn’t

any additional evidence of prejudice.

The appellate court afrmed the summary judg-

ment in favor of HOPE.

[Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with

Exceptionalities, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th

Circuit, No. 18-13600, 07/15/2019]. ■

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VolunteerMatch, Benevity partner

to expand reach

VolunteerMatch, the world’s largest volunteer

engagement network, and Benevity Inc., a leading

provider of corporate social responsibility and em-

ployee engagement software, have launched a new

partnership that will enable Benevity clients to access

the VolunteerMatch Open Network within their exist-

ing CSR programs. According to the groups, this will

add over 4.5 million volunteer opportunities to the

roughly 3 million opportunities currently in Benev-

ity’s software offering, which will help companies

scale their volunteering programs and enable their

workers to do more good in their communities.

By providing greater choice and relevant volunteer

opportunities to their employees, Benevity said, its

corporate clients can drive more participation and

deeper engagement in their employee volunteer pro-

grams as well as their employee donation programs,

which tend to go hand in hand. Benevity’s data shows

that 70% of employee volunteers also donate money,

with volunteers giving almost double what nonvol-

unteers give to charity.

The partnership also expands VolunteerMatch’s

potential reach through exposure to Benevity’s cli-

ent community, composed of over 600 clients and

12 million users.

For more information, visit https://www.volunteer-

match.org.

PayPal reports processing

$10.3 billion in 2019 donations

Online nancial transaction processor PayPal an-

nounced it had processed a record $10.3 billion in

donations to charities around the world in 2019—

including more than $1 billion in the month of

December alone. The company said that 21% of all

donations made through the site in 2019 were done

through mobile devices, signifying that mobile and

other digital channels continue to change how donors

engage with nonprot organizations.

PayPal is one of the largest digital donation plat-

forms in the world, supporting more than 600,000

nonprots with fundraising. Its technology and ser-

vices also underlie donations done through platforms

such as Facebook, GoFundMe, Airbnb and eBay.

“Our efforts to drive social impact and create value

for all of our stakeholders continue to expand,” said

Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate

affairs at PayPal. “As we enter 2020, we remain com-

mitted to harnessing the power of our technology

and scale to provide new ways for people to give to

the causes they care about—and to help charitable

organizations raise mission-critical funds that make

a difference for communities around the world.”

Every year, PayPal encourages charitable giving

among its community of consumers and merchants—

which number in the hundreds of millions—driving

donations to disaster relief efforts and campaigns

like GivingTuesday and others. These efforts are

increasingly paying off in big numbers—for 2019

GivingTuesday, for example, the company processed

some $106 million in donations beneting charities

around the world. Most recently, PayPal has directed

its fundraising apparatus to drive donations to help

relief and recovery efforts in Australia, which has

struggled with widespread wildres impacting large

swaths of the country.

For more information on those efforts, visit https://

bit.ly/2tFfzWW. ■