Round up
Customers can round up or add a small donation at checkout to support outreach, education, and resources for blue-collar workers and trade families.
Checkout giving
Round up for the people who build everything.
Steel Harbor is preparing a responsible checkout giving concept for retailers, suppliers, tool stores, pro desks, contractors, unions, local businesses, and corporate giving teams that serve the trades.
Campaign concept
Simple enough for a checkout lane. Serious enough for the mission.
Resource cards
Partner locations can display small cards with 988, grief resources, recovery resources, and Steel Harbor’s privacy-first support promise.
Pro-desk awareness
Trade counters, pro desks, tool aisles, supply houses, and contractor services can become responsible points of awareness without collecting personal stories.
No pressure
Checkout giving should be simple, optional, respectful, and never tied to an employee’s private struggle or customer disclosure.
Why it belongs there
The people in those aisles are the people this mission serves.
Home improvement stores, tool stores, pro desks, supply houses, and trade counters are where the work touches the public. The people walking through those lanes are workers, family members, contractors, apprentices, retirees, suppliers, veterans, and neighbors.
A checkout campaign gives ordinary people a simple way to stand with the ones carrying grief, pressure, addiction, injury, loss, and silence.
Campaign line
Round up for the people who build everything.
This line is strong enough for checkout, shelf talkers, donation pages, partner packets, and outreach kits.
Checkout language
Short lines that can fit at a register.
Round up for the people who build everything.
Support private resources for blue-collar workers and trade families.
Help build the Harbor for workers carrying grief, pressure, addiction, injury, and loss.
Your small gift helps fund outreach, education, resources, and worker-focused support connections.
Before public checkout fundraising
The paperwork has to be as clean as the mission is strong.
IRS determination-letter classification verified: public charity or private foundation.
Florida charitable-solicitation requirements confirmed before public fundraising is pushed hard.
Nonprofit bank account, donation processor, receipts, and recordkeeping are clean.
Privacy promise, disclaimers, contact routing, and donation-data handling are in place.
No retailer, supplier, contractor, or store is named as a partner without a written agreement.
Mobile, accessibility, SEO, performance, and crisis-resource visibility pass final review.
No false claims
Do not name a retailer as a partner until they sign.
Steel Harbor can say it is preparing for retail checkout giving and seeking responsible retail partners. It should not say it is partnered with Home Depot, Lowe’s, Harbor Freight, or any other company unless there is a written agreement.
Retail Partner Path