Employees Charity Organization

Echo is a california nonprofit public benefit corporation that was formed to support charitable, educational, and religious organizations. Echo accomplishes its purposes by enabling and encouraging employees of northrop grumman to make contributions. Echo encourages workplace giving through two types of grant making programs. Echo solicits grant applications from community-based charities that serve the needs of several communities. After the applications have been reviewed and the board of directors has approved them, echo makes quarterly grants out of its community outreach fund. Echo encourages workplace giving by allowing employees to advise grants from a list of pre-approved public charities that echo maintains on its network. The echo office reviews the public charity status of each organization.