DonationMatch facilitates nonprofit fundraising while streamlining charitable marketing. We empower nonprofits and businesses to reach their goals together through better Events with Benefits™.

In his 20+ years in IT, Darryl Rettig has built more business intelligence systems than he can count, helping companies small and large with risk exposure, financial reporting, operational efficiencies, performance management, and even costume reservations. He believes that behind all the technology, there's a person with a real problem to solve, and it's his job to help get it done.

Darryl demonstrated in 2010 that DonationMatch is no exception, when he turned the site from a great idea into reality. Always seeking to make DonationMatch the best system it can be for users, he's often heard asking, "If you had a magic wand, how would you want this to work?" In leading our development and growth, Darryl's philosophy is simple: focus on the customer, and everyone wins.

Renee Zau can easily be described as our ideal customer, because DonationMatch's paperless, resource-sharing, and time-saving system was built from her own wish list as both a nonprofit volunteer and business owner. A franchisee of two companies since 2000, she started six businesses and has mentored over 100 franchisees.

While serving on multiple fundraising event committees each year, Renee witnessed and enjoyed the excitement around in-kind donations at charitable events, especially those with silent auctions, but she was continually frustrated by the inefficient use of time and resources prior to events with respect to soliciting prizes manually and hand-entering data into forms and auction software. Charitable giving also took more time than necessary when dealing with incomplete information from event organizers and preparing certificates. Renee longed for a way to go paperless while sharing resources so no one had to do the same work twice. DonationMatch was created to apply the "one form, multiple applications" principle to save time and maximize outreach with in-kind marketing and donation management.