Here's why billions of charitable giving dollars go unused every year
CBSN
As Giving Tuesday nears, more than 18 million people in America work for companies with charitable-donation matching programs, yet as much as $7 billion in donations from those companies go unused every year.
One of the biggest reasons for this is simple: People don't know their employer has one of these programs.
I know. I was one of those people until just recently.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.