What is Regular Giving Programme?
 A programme specifically for donors in the UK
You can regularly make donations of a fixed amount to an organisation/ cause of your choice through a standing order through your bank
Provides the ease and convenience to donate to your favorite charity month-on-month
By consistently giving to the same organisation, you build a long term relationship with the organisation you are supporting |
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How do I join?
| 1. | Search for a donation option that you would like to support.
| | 2. | Then, fill up this choice along with a few other details in this form and email it to: apaxon@gmail.com |
Why GiveIndia?  | Credibility: All NGOs on GiveIndia have been certified for credibility and transparency.
| | Choice: You choose how exactly you’d like to make a difference, be it educating a child, supporting an elderly person, providing healthcare to the poor etc. | | Convenience: You can change lives from the convenience of your desktop. Additionally, tax receipts as well as feedback reports for your donation are emailed to you. |
Common FAQs about GiveIndia?
1) How is GiveIndia different from other NGOs?
2) What do you mean by a GiveIndia listed NGO?
3) How much of my donation reaches the NGO I select?
4) Please tell me more about the donation of 9.1% that GiveIndia takes.
5) In the non-profit sector, what do other NGOs charge for similar services? 6) How does GiveIndia manage to keep their costs so low? 1) Here are some of the things that make us unique:
a. We do not raise funds for ourselves, but offer you the chance to donate to any of a wide range of NGOs that have cleared specific norms of credibility and accountability.
b. We work hard to keep our cost of fundraising down to a single digit - 9.1%. Most other funding intermediary organisations spend between 20-50% on fundraising.
c. Only we offer you a wide range of 300+ 'donation options' from 100+ NGOs working on 10 causes .
d. GiveIndia provides you with in-depth details of NGOs listed with us.
e. GiveIndia sends you a feedback report on every donation** you make. This feedback contains details about the beneficiary and that lets you know how your money has made a difference. ** Except for the Marathon, during which we list NGOs chosen by runners, and hence do not provide feedbacks for donations to these NGOs and in the case of iGive projects that are not certified by us and are put up directly by the page owners. 
2) A GiveIndia certified NGO has cleared stringent norms of credibility and accountability. We have a thorough, transparent and objective selection process for the NGOs profiled on our site. Here are some of the criteria we use for selection:
* Organisations must be registered nonprofits that implement social development projects in India, with no political affiliations.
* At least 50% of their beneficiaries must be economically underprivileged.
* Organisations must be unbiased in their beneficiary selection i.e. non religious / non political.
* The organisation should meet the Credibility Alliance's norms or be willing to meet them within six months of listing on our site.
* The organisation must be willing to create donation options and provide prompt feedback for the donations.
3) GiveIndia ensures that 90.9% of your contribution reaches the NGO you have chosen by keeping fundraising costs at 9.1%.
In the Payroll Giving programme, the company makes a donation of 9.1% of total contributions, so 100% of the employee's donation is passed through.
The 9.1% donation retention covers all our costs including the due diligence, sending the money to the NGO, sending you your feedback report, the credit card charges which are often as high as 4% of your donation size*, and providing ongoing donor support including provision of online accounts and facilities.
*For U.S.-tax paying donors on GiveIndia.org, Paypal charges 2.5% plus 30c per donation. For U.K.-tax paying donors on GiveIndia.org, Paypal charges 3.4% plus 20p per donation as a fee for their services. Thus, for a 20 pound donation, the Paypal charges alone are 4.4% and for a 10 pound donation, it is 5.4%.
4) GiveIndia retains 9.1% in order to meet to provide you with the high quality support you have come to expect when transacting through GiveIndia. By taking this donation, we are reducing our dependence on grants and increasing the chances that we will be around for a lot longer to serve donors, NGOs and beneficiaries.
GiveIndia lets you donate with confidence because we have spent resources on due diligence and on obtaining and processing feedback reports. We're confident that our donors recognize this. We have this donation in place across all of our modes of fundraising. Here are the primary two explained in more detail:
Payroll Giving: Since the inception of the Payroll Giving programme in 2002, participating companies have made this donation of 9.1% to GiveIndia. This has led to the companies taking greater ownership of the programme and to employees feeling that their company is a good corporate citizen.
Regular online donations: Ever since GiveIndia started in 2000, there has been a cost to online donations. Till June 1, 2008 we subsidised these costs with a grant from ICICI Bank. However with our plans to scale up the volumes of online donations in the coming years, we are forced to retain a small part of the donation from our customers. So as of June 1, 2008, we will retain 9.1% of what online donors contribute.
GiveIndia believes that you, the donor, would be much more concerned about our cost of fundraising than a grantmaking organisation, and this concern will force us to be efficient.
Consider 2 examples, Intermediary1 that spends 10% on fundraising and deducts this from the donation, and Intermediary2 that spends 25% on fundraising, but deducts only 5% from the donation, getting the balance 20% from some grantmaking agency.
While Intermediary1 is actually the more efficient organisation, donors may tend to support Intermediary2 because less of their money is spent on fundraising. Grantmaking agencies are typically far less demanding than individual donors and there will be no pressure to reduce fundraising costs much below the 20-25% level.
5) Every non-profit organisation has costs and unfortunately for donors, these costs aren't usually stated in a way that make it easy to compare which ones are the most efficient.
Other intermediaries do not disclose their costs clearly, often masking them as "advocacy expenses". The cost of advocacy and fundraising for most intermediaries is typically in the 20%-40% range. With the possible exception of religious and spiritual institutions, GiveIndia has one of the lowest fundraising costs.
6) There are several ways:
* By obtaining free or subsidised services wherever possible
* ICICI Bank provides free internet banking and a very low cost payment gateway
* Several TV and print media groups have provided free advertising support to us
* Several ad agencies and others provide pro bono services to help us
* We have an army of volunteers that drive several aspects of our operations, thus helping keep costs even lower
* We have created very efficient processes backed by IT systems, which help us to automate large portions of our activities thus helping us to do with lesser manpower than other equivalent organizations
* Our main office is located in an under utilised municipal school and the rent is a fraction of what we would pay for commercial space of the same size
* Our highly committed employees have chosen to work with us and by doing so, they earn less than what they would in the corporate sector.
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