Everywhere I worked getting a commercial license for software was only a matter of asking IT or filing an expense. OTOH from position of an employee getting the

Everywhere I worked getting a commercial license for software was only a matter of asking IT or filing an expense. OTOH from position of an employee getting the company to donate any amount of money was nearly impossible. There's no process for it. There's nobody responsible for doing it. Legal/Accounting will have a ton of questions about (why? is it taxable? where's the paper trail?). The quickest route may be through Marketing dept, but then it's viewed as an ad/sponsorship.