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This Issue
Top 10 NGOs who received funds in
January
iGive Reimbursement Report
Mumbai and Delhi Cyclothon
Last month our newsletter covered information about the India NGO
Awards programme which is a joint venture between the Resource Alliance
and the Rockefeller Foundation. Apply by 15 February 2012 at
indiangoaward@resource-alliance.org.
The Community Corps is a new
online portal dedicated to connecting skilled IT professionals to the
technology needs of mission-driven organizations. Together with
JPMorgan Chase, they are looking to make an impact for India-based NGOs
working to promote social good. Program participants can choose from a
list of high-impact technology projects and then be placed with
qualified, prescreened IT experts. Click here to register or email
for any queries.
Tier I NGOs listed with GiveIndia are considered automatically eligible
to participate in NGO India 2012. They just need to spend about 10
minutes to do 2 things:
1. Click here to fill the
Application form for Exhibiting in NGO India 2012 through GuideStar
India website. Please quote their GSN (GuideStar Number) correctly in
the form.
2. Download and fill the NGO India
Exhibition Contract Form, sign and stamp it and courier it.
This would be a great opportunity to showcase your work to 4000+
visitors from corporate and grant making institutions and 5000+
individuals from in and around Delhi. There is no fee for participation
in the exhibition. A ready to decorate stall would be provided free of
cost. The event also has free seminars on fundraising, communications
& PR, governance, etc. Every NGO Exhibitor also gets one free
pass to a high level conference. Read more...
Life Trust celebrated its annual event, "Joy in a Box" last
week where educational toys were supplied to 50 Anganwadis to be made
available to lesser privileged children. The children put up dance
performance with the assistance from sevikas.
YouTube and See3 will present the Nonprofit Video Awards, a celebration
of the best nonprofit videos on the site. Winners will receive
promotion on the YouTube homepage, as well as a cash prize to help them
advance their video work. Visit the link for more info. o
enter, you must be a member of the YouTube Nonprofit Program.
Tips from Fund Raising blog..
How to thank your donors
Spend as much energy to thank donors as we do for asking them
1. Don't start out with 'Dear Friend' or 'On behalf of'
2. Don't ask for another gift
3. Don't misspell their name
4. Don't have errors in grammar, punctuation or spellings
5. Don't be formal or vague or lofty but be concise
Your Thank you is a golden moment to the donor.
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| IMPORTANT: Chargebacks on donations |
In the last few months we
have encountered many cases wherein donors have reversed their credit
card transactions after a disbursement has taken place to an NGO. Since
the funds have already been disbursed to the NGO and the payment
gateway debits our account for the same, it results in a loss for
GiveIndia. In this light we would like to highlight Clause 9 of Article
IV in the MoU that you have signed with us.
Clause 9: The NGO indemnifies the Channel of all liability for
financial transactions that are not honoured by the donors, including,
but not limited to credit card charge backs, cheques that are
dishonoured, online transactions reversed at the request of the donor,
stop-payments and the like. In all cases where the NGO has already
received payment which is subsequently dishonoured, the NGO undertakes
to make good any repayments that the Channel will have to make to
financial intermediaries on account of such dishonouring of the
donation by the donor.
As this has happened with a few specific NGOs, we believe this problem
to be more NGO specific rather than affecting GiveIndia as a whole.
Give Foundation shall be pursuing the following approach to deal with
the problematic cases:
1. If the payment gateway recovers the money from GiveIndia for a
particular transaction, then the NGO for whom that donation was made
and the donation options of that NGO, will be disabled immediately.
Donations through iGive pages will not be permitted for that NGO either.
2. In such cases, the NGO will be required to refund the entire sum of
money, that has been recovered from GiveIndia by the credit card
payment gateway, immediately. Till such time NGO & DOs will
remain disabled, nor will any donations to iGive pages of that NGO be
permitted.
3. Once this money is received from the NGO, the NGO, its donation
options and iGive pages (if any) will be enabled on GiveIndia website
for receiving donations, but disbursements will be on HOLD till such
time as all earlier cases are resolved with the credit card payment
gateway as well as the NGO.
| Participate in Mumbai and Delhi Cyclothon |
A big thank you to all NGOs for
attending the Mumbai Cyclothon workshop on January 17th. For NGOs who
missed out, here are the details.
GiveIndia has partnered with ID Sports to bring to you the Mumbai and
Delhi Cyclothon. We will be managing the charity aspect of the event
only. It’s a great fundraising opportunity to offer to your donors –
both individual and corporate. The offline sporting event gives donors
a return for their donation. So, please do take advantage of this
event!
Event Dates:
Delhi – Sunday 25th March
Mumbai – Sunday 1st April
See table below for Individual & Corporate Basic Registration
details
How to participate:
Registrations will begin next week. Please visit the link for registration
forms.
Please note: If you would like your donors to raise funds for you
through an iGive page, as part of the event, you would need to submit
an iGive Reimbursement Report (iRR).
Going
forward, a new process that will allow iGive funds to be disbursed to
your organization on a regular cycle, instead of waiting for your iGive
Reimbursement Report (iRR) to be checked every time you receive a
donation, will be followed.
How will it work?
1. Every NGO submits an iGive Reimbursement Report, for an amount
required by them/for an amount of their choice -min. Rs. 10,000. (NGOs
wishing to take part in the upcoming events in this financial year –
The India Tax Saving Challenge and Mumbai/Delhi Cyclothon – please
provide us with a report for maximum amount that you wish to raise so
that you do not have to submit several reports). This report should
contain details of reimbursement of past expenses already occurred –
typically from your unrestricted funding
2. The same is vetted by our teams and updated in our systems.
3. Once done, an iGive page(s) can be set up for your NGO
4. Donors may make donations till this limit is exhausted
5. As the limit reaches Rs. 5,000, you will receive a mail from our
systems informing you of the same. Please resubmit an iGive
reimbursement report at that time to ensure that you continue receiving
donations through iGive pages. If we do not have a valid report in the
system, you will no longer be able to receive funds via iGive pages.
Also till you submit a report, no new iGive page can be created.
Next Steps:
This change will go live today. We request you to please submit a
report at the earliest if you would like to continue raising funds
through an already active or soon to be active page. Please contact
feedback@giveindia.org or tarika@giveindia.org in case you have any
queries regarding this change.
SERUDS has received commendation certificate from the Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh, on the eve of 63rd Republic Day on 26th January 2012 for their
excellent social service to the underprivileged children, destitute
women, rural development in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh.
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