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Donatestock Partners With Podium Society To Promote Mental Health Awareness

03/29/2022 8 minute read

In honor of May’s upcoming Mental Health Month, DonateStock is thrilled to announce a partnership with Podium Society in support of their efforts to inspire, raise awareness and make impact through Podium Pictures documentaries.

  • DonateStock is supporting Podium Pictures efforts to raise $40M to develop 8 titles focused on Mental Health, Social Justice, and Gender Equity, featuring the biggest names in sports.
  • Podium Pictures produced the sports documentary, The Weight of Gold, which premiered on HBO and received an Emmy nomination, as well as over 1.5 billion media impressions, including coverage in The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. 
  • The Weight of Gold was shown for the first time on the big screen in Big Sky, Montana followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker, Brett Rapkin, Olympic legend, Bode Miller, Behavioral Health Specialist Shannon Steele, and Yucca Rieschel of the Rieschel Foundation. The screenings in Big Sky kick off a series of screenings across the country. 
  • Podium Pictures is hoping the screenings will start an important conversation, one that will inspire other philanthropists, like the Rieschel Foundation, to step up and support Podium’s initiative of producing content that creates change.  
  • DonateStock will showcase all donations and pledges that are committed to Podium during the month of April as a collective fund to serve as a matching campaign that will run during the month of May, in support of Mental Health Month.  
  • All donations are tax deductible, driving to Podium Society, Podium’s 501c3 fundraising arm,  https://donatestock.com/podium-society-inc and 100% of the net proceeds will pass through to cover the cost of Podium’s productions.  
  • During Mental Health Month, all participating athletes/donors will be provided with the matching campaign assets to share on their personal channels. 
  • All investors will not only receive a tax deduction for their pre-tax contributions but they will also receive a social impact case study that analyzes how Podium’s content created awareness that led to measurable change. Top level investors will also earn producer credits.

 

The Benefits For Donors

To help power their fundraising efforts, Podium Society has partnered with DonateStock, the only end-to-end platform that is fast, safe, and free, and allows donors to leverage their appreciated gains while avoiding capital gains tax and deducting the market value of their gift. Through DonateStock, investors can give more, while generating significant savings and maximizing their impact through Podium’s mission of producing content that creates change. https://donatestock.com/podium-society-inc

 

DonateStock – the smarter way to give

DonateStock embodies fintech-for-good in its mission to democratize stock gifting for millions. The platform removes the friction for both donors and nonprofits, enabling every donor to make smarter charitable gifts via appreciated stock to all 1.5M nonprofits in the US.

Why Stock? When a donor opts to gift appreciated stock, they avoid capital gains tax and they can deduct full value of their donation, which translates into a larger savings for the donor and a larger gift for the nonprofit. Everybody wins!

Scalable Impact: The old process of gifting stock is manual and onerous for donors and painstaking for nonprofits. By making the process fast, safe and free, DonateStock is unlocking $100bn in potential funding for nonprofits while educating every investor about the “best kept secret in personal finance.”

Comprehensive but Turn-Key: DonateStock is the only site that offers a brokerage account for the vast majority of nonprofits who don’t have one, automating the process for donors to give to any an all NPO’s through a simple dashboard, while providing a gateway for new revenues along with the transparency and reporting that nonprofits need to scale.

Leaning In: As part of its commitment to help both investors and nonprofits, DonateStock provides matching campaigns, educational webinars, and an easy button for all nonprofits who can now receive stock without any heavy lifting.

Partnerships: The platform has emerged as an innovative leader in the space and gained tremendous momentum earning national press coverage, celebrity support, industry credibility, and integrated partnerships with financial institutions and giving platforms. DonateStock is proud to partner with Podium Pictures to help maximize the opportunity for investors and accelerate the impact produced by Podium Pictures.