Our story began with a unique fusion of our passion for giving back to local communities and our expertise in creating profitable business models. In 2011, this distinctive combination gave rise to PS It Matters.

We began by partnering with corporate clients to include a 15% donation within the price of gourmet food baskets, corporate gear, gifts, and promotional items. Through this strategy, we were able to support local communities while simultaneously empowering our clients to build brand affinity and increase gross margin.

Expanding on this initial concept, we created Bags 4 My Cause in 2014. Through this initiative, our retail partners’ various store locations each select a local nonprofit to receive a $1 donation for every reusable bag sold in a given month. As nonprofits promote their benefiting month, this business model drives new and existing shoppers to participating stores, spikes net reusable bag sales, and streamlines earned media for the retail partner.

When the pandemic struck, the need in our local communities was more pressing than ever. However, reusable bag sales sharply declined as retailers took precautionary measures. Determined to certify the adaptability of our business model, we launched Bloomin’ 4 Good in 2021. Through this initiative, each bouquet purchase sends a $1 donation to a monthlong nonprofit beneficiary that serves the store’s local community. Since implementation, Bloomin’ 4 Good has once again proved our business model is both purposeful and profitable.

After a decade of refining our proprietary software database and three years of program development, in 2025, we launched Coupons 4 My Cause in partnership with Catalina Marketing Corporation. This program brings the highest level of affinity to shoppers by empowering them to redeem donation coupons for the local organization of their choice by simply buying products they already know and love. With a program coupon redemption rates of 21%, the program delivers hundreds of thousands of engaged retail brand impressions, creating between two and four minutes of sustained activity with each impression. This engagement is in addition to a myriad of other impressions resulting from marketing done by benefiting organizations as they promote the program to their support network and general community.

Now deployed in over 3,500 retail locations nationwide, our initiatives have generated more than $14 million in donations to over 55,000 organizations in only 11 years. By spiking store traffic and generating net new sales, this model drives an increase in gross margin every month at no extra cost to our clients. At PS It Matters, we are on a mission to impact our local communities through everyday choices.

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