Cheapest online donating tool? for charity.

An interesting idea.

Agreed

I suspect that is to prevent fraud. It would be all too easy for someone to make out the money goes to a good cause, but just pockets it themselves. So I expect that is the reason.

Do it through the charity, or would you rather they did not know about this?

Thanks Dave,

I think it will come to asking the charity. But they are a small Scottish organisation (World Exchange) with not even an online way of donating themselves. I'll have a chat to them I think.

You indicate your girlfriend is working through a Scottish charity. I don't know the laws there.

In the U.S., donors cannot claim a tax benefit for donations to individuals, only to organized charities. Even a donation to a charity has not tax benefit if the donation is restricted to helping a specific individual. The donation may be restricted to a specific program. If the Internal Revenue Service determines that the program is targeted to a specific individual, however, the tax benefit might still be disallowed.

In any case, online donation services charge a fee. The most cost-effective means of collecting donations is by check. The use of online services is only good for promoting donations where the donors might be too lazy to write a check and mail it.

" Your charity can create a FREE profile on two key giving portals GiveNow.org (online credit/debit card giving site for any recognised UK charity) and AllAboutGiving.org (the online giving site for CAF Charity Account or Give As You Earn donors) exposing your cause to millions of potential new supporters." - ?

No recommendation implied, but I use CAF to make tax-free donations to charities. I'd guess she might need the charity she's working for to set up a special appeal for her project, or something. Worth looking into, anyway.

HTH, Alex.

With neither quill nor qualm, Paul Turner quothed:

That is a bad idea.

too much scope for fraud, who in their right mind would contribute to something like that?

You're right. I think I'll speak to the charity and see if we can sort something out.

thanks for all your help.

I work for a registered charity and have looked into quite a few online donations services. Probably the closest thing to what you're looking for, though not an exact match, would be bmycharity.com.

One of the important benefits of doing it through the charity would be that they could utilise giftaid and reclaim tax- whilst donations direct to your girlfriend would not be able to do that.

Neb

: > I am trying to setup a way that people can make donations to my : > girlfriend who is an aid worker in Africa. She is working for a large : > charity, but I would like a way to have the money go directly to her

Are you serious? Or is it that you think that Africa is OK for such loose arrangements? Respect Africa.

Sid African

Does PayPal give you special treatment as a charity verse personal or business?

I was looking at this, and found if I registered as a nonprofit corporation, I got a business account and they automaticly charged fees.

thx,

tom @

Thanks Toby,

A good source for fee/very low cost software for NP.