DONATION POLICIES
HOW CAN I BE ASSURED MY DONATION IS GOING DIRECTLY TO PEOPLE IN NEED?
EmBgloo Aid’s donation policy ensures that 100 percent of all designated contributions for specific Projects Or Initiatives are used only on expenses related to supporting that Project or Initiative.
By clarifying that EmBgloo Aid may use your contribution wherever most needed, you allow the organization to strengthen the long-term health systems that are vital to underserved and vulnerable people in Africa and respond to communities that do not receive widespread attention. EmBgloo Aid commits to spend your money in the most productive, efficient way possible.
If you wish to restrict the use of your donation only for a specific purpose or area, EmBgloo Aid will honor that wish or tell you that it cannot and offer to return your contribution. EmBgloo Aid has not and will not collect money for what may appear to be a specific incident or purpose with the intention of using it for other purposes.
HOW IS EMBGLOO AID FUNDED? DOES EMBGLOO AID ACCEPT GOVERNMENT FUNDING?
EmBgloo Aid is funded by it’s founders; assistant funding from government grants when available; but most importantly, our Support comes entirely from private individuals, associations, foundations, and businesses who entrust EmBgloo Aid with resources so that it can fulfill its humanitarian mission.
ENSURING DONOR INTENT
To ensure that donors have the ability to communicate their intention regarding a gift, EmBgloo Aid’s online donation page allows people to provide instruction for how a donation is to be allocated among EmBgloo Aid’s various program activities, including specific emergencies. Other methods of contributions, such as by check or wire transfer that include a notation in the check memo line or accompanying correspondence also will be considered as instruction to restrict the gift for particular project or initiative activities.
DETAILED ACCOUNTING FOR PROJECTS AND INITIATIVE FUNDS
An internal fund is created with all designated contributions, and all expenditures related to emergency response are recorded for both internal management and external reporting purposes. Independently audited financial statements are prepared and published annually, but EmBgloo Aid will share current information on its website as events unfold regarding Project and Initiative activities and expenditures.
ONLY A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF FUNDS ARE USED FOR FUNDRAISING EXPENSES
EmBgloo Aid uses only a reasonable amount of Donated funds from your generous Donations for fundraising expenses. We also strive to raise specific funds to be used for fund raising purposes, so that 90 percent of the funds for our Projects and Initiatives go to those programs only.
WHAT RESTRICTED DONATED FUNDS MAY BE USED FOR
Specific Project and Initiative contributions will be used only for those related programmatic costs and administrative expenses directly related to those activities when desired by the donor or donors. Programmatic costs include those related to construction of community hospitals and clinics, transporting, housing and feeding the Dog Tag Initiative volunteers, purchasing, storing, transporting, and distributing essential medical material to underserved areas and the costs of programmatic staff and related travel for emergency relief-assistance functions. Directly related administrative expenses include credit-card processing fees associated with the receipt of underserved contributions; accounting fees associated with managing underserved funds; postage related to issuing receipts to underserved donors; banking fees related to wire transfers of underserved donations; warehousing and packaging of medical material, solar equipment, water pumps and drilling equipment; and IT support costs that are necessary to conduct underserved-related programmatic activity (such as inventory management of medical material being provided in the relief effort for the underserved).
General, unrestricted financial support is essential for EmBgloo Aid to fulfill any of its deeply compelling humanitarian and Underserved activities, including being able to served those far to reach and very remote underserved places. Such unrestricted contributions always are needed, deeply appreciated, and enable EmBgloo Aid to assist people in many places and situations that do not make the news.
However, EmBgloo Aid is obligated to—and will always—honor the intent of a donor-designated financial contribution. If a donor were to make a clearly restricted gift for a purpose or with a restriction that EmBgloo Aid is not able to fulfill or comply with, EmBgloo Aidcwill advise the donor of this situation and inquire if other uses may be permitted. In the event that a donor’s intent cannot be met by EmBgloo Aid, the organization would offer to direct the gift to another nonprofit that would be able to fulfill the donor’s intent or return the gift.
STATE NONPROFIT DISCLOSURES
Certain states require written disclosures for nonprofit organizations soliciting contributions. Individual state disclosures are below.
Florida: A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the division of consumer services by calling toll-free, within the State, 1-800-435-7352 (800-HELP-FLA), or visiting www.floridaconsumerhelp.com. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval or recommendation by the State. See Compliance and Licenses