A huge thank you to everyone who participated in The $1 Give yesterday, and a few FAQs that we’re learning as we go…

Join anytime!
My friend Lisa (from Studio 915 Salon for all you local partcipants) suggested that now would be a great time to remind people that they can join anytime. You don’t have to give to all 31 charities to be part of The $1 Give, and you don’t have to have started with us on the 1st to be part of it either! Of course, if you miss a day and want to go back and “catch up”, you’re always welcome to do that too – the links will remain active!

Help us count donations!
There’s two ways you can help us count donations – by putting “One Dollar Give” in the dedication field on the donation form so that the charities know where the $1 donations are coming from and by “voting” in the poll at the end of each intro to let us know you’ve voted.

Anonymous Donations
My friend Kim also pointed out that she would be requesting that no mail be sent to her from the participating charities because she does not want to receive solicitations and also doesn’t want her donation used to send her mail, therefore putting it in the red. This is a great point, and I wanted to also point out that on donations made through Network for Good, you can request that your information be kept anonymous, which is probably the simplest way to accomplish this.

More about the Good Card
I’m sorry about any confusion surrounding the Good Card from the Network of Good. Let me try this again…

The Good Card is like a gift card that can be purchased and given to someone to donate to their favorite charity. In this case, you can purchase a Good Card for yourself to minimize the transaction fees that are deducted from each $1 donation. You can purchase them in any denomination (and the entire amount is tax deductible) and Network for Good adds a $5 fee to the amount as a tax-deductible grant to cover their administration and other fees. Doing it this way means that when you donate $1, the entire amount is designated to the charity rather than deductions being taken to cover that administration fee (which you can also choose to add to you $1 donation, making it $1.04) or to cover credit card/Paypal fees.

There is absolutely NO obligation to do it this way, and you’re welcome to just continue making each individual $1 donation, but if you’d like to purchase a Good Card, visit Network of Good’s site and click on the image that says “Give the gift of good: a gift card for charity. Buy Now.” Next, click on “Buy a Good Card.” On the right-hand side of the page is information to “Send a Good Card by Email.” Fill this information out with your name/email as both the sender and recipient and choose the donation amount that you’d like. Proceed through checkout. You’ll receive an email with your Good Card number to make donations.

Easy as pie (except I messed up all THREE of my Thanksgiving pies, so I’m not sure pie is so easy after all…).

An Oops
A representative from Compassion International pointed out that my wording on the About page that said all donations would be made through “a direct link to each charity’s donation page” is slightly misleading. At the time I was trying to emphasize that no donations would be given through The One Dollar Give, but they do not consider the donations made through Network for Good technically “direct” since there are administration fees deducted. We’ve already covered the fees above (and please understand that he was not complaining about the generous donations…I think he was just surprised by the administration because it wasn’t what he’d consider direct), and I’ve changed the wording so that it’s no longer misleading!

I think that’s it for now! Thanks again for your participation, and I’m looking forward to the rest of the month!