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

Paul Turner wrote:
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?

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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.

Paul Turner wrote:
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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On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:16:32 -0800, Paul Turner wrote:

" 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.
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That is a bad idea.

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something like that?

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

thanks for all your help.

Paul Turner wrote:

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.

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"Paul Turner" <turnerpaul@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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