Cheapest online donating tool? for charity.

[Paul Turner]

Hi there,

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,
so she can choose how it is spent in the village she works in.

Paypal is very pricey and they take a big cut. some other companies
say you have to a proper registered chairty, which she isn't herself.

Does anyone have any ideas please? We just need a good cheap way that
people can donate using cards.

Thanks

Paul

 

[Dave (from the UK)]

Hi there,

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,
so she can choose how it is spent in the village she works in.

An interesting idea.

Paypal is very pricey and they take a big cut.
Agreed

some other companies
say you have to a proper registered chairty, which she isn't herself.

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.

Does anyone have any ideas please?

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

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[Paul Turner]

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.

 

[David E. Ross]

Hi there,

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,
so she can choose how it is spent in the village she works in.

Paypal is very pricey and they take a big cut. some other companies
say you have to a proper registered chairty, which she isn't herself.

Does anyone have any ideas please? We just need a good cheap way that
people can donate using cards.

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.

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[Alex Butcher]

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, so she can choose
how it is spent in the village she works in.

Paypal is very pricey and they take a big cut. some other companies say
you have to a proper registered chairty, which she isn't herself.

Does anyone have any ideas please? We just need a good cheap way that
people can donate using cards.

" 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."
- <http://www.efundraising.org/> ?

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.

 

[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, Paul Turner quothed:

Hi there,

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,
so she can choose how it is spent in the village she works in.

That is a bad idea.

 

[Tumbleweed]

Hi there,

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,
so she can choose how it is spent in the village she works in.

Paypal is very pricey and they take a big cut. some other companies
say you have to a proper registered chairty, which she isn't herself.

Does anyone have any ideas please? We just need a good cheap way that
people can donate using cards.

Thanks

Paul

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

 

[Paul Turner]

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

thanks for all your help.

 

[Toby Inkster]

Does anyone have any ideas please? We just need a good cheap way that
people can donate using cards.

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.

 

[Nebulous]

Hi there,

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,
so she can choose how it is spent in the village she works in.

Paypal is very pricey and they take a big cut. some other companies
say you have to a proper registered chairty, which she isn't herself.

Does anyone have any ideas please? We just need a good cheap way that
people can donate using cards.

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

 

[Sid Ismail]

: > 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

 

[Tom]

Hi there,

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,
so she can choose how it is spent in the village she works in.

Paypal is very pricey and they take a big cut. some other companies
say you have to a proper registered chairty, which she isn't herself.

Does anyone have any ideas please? We just need a good cheap way that
people can donate using cards.

Thanks

Paul

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 @ www.NoCostAds.com

 

[Paul Turner]

Thanks Toby,

http://bmycharity.com/
doesn't exist. typo?

 

[Ian Cornish]

Thanks Toby,

http://bmycharity.com/
doesn't exist. typo?

http://www.bmycharity.com/homesite/default.htm

 

[NotMe]

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

http://www.techsoup.org/index.cfm?cg=header_tss&sg=home


| Hi there,
|
| 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,
| so she can choose how it is spent in the village she works in.
|
| Paypal is very pricey and they take a big cut. some other companies
| say you have to a proper registered chairty, which she isn't herself.
|
| Does anyone have any ideas please? We just need a good cheap way that
| people can donate using cards.
|
| Thanks
|
| Paul
|