Giving to Charity Online

Donate Online

Giving to charity online is now recognized with dozens of giving sites sprinkled across the web. The idea behind most of these giving websites is to facilitate all types of donors, yet deep or shallow their pockets, to rapidly and easily find worthy causes to support just by clicking and using their credit cards.

Giving sites aggregate many charities in one place so a possible donor does not have to hop around looking for individual charitable sites. And charities, whatever their size, can find a home where donors gather together.

Besides accepting donations, many online giving sites provide an easy way for supporters to set up their own fundraising campaigns for particular causes; and even for volunteers to find opportunities where they can provide sweat equity instead of a donation or in addition to donating.

Here are four charitable giving websites that provide information about many charities and causes. They are terrific places to start your journey towards a lifetime of charitable giving.

1-      Causes

“Causes” is probably the best known and most widely used giving site. It is really an application that is embedded right within Facebook. As a Facebook user, you can go right to Causes and search for a charity that interests you. You will also see many charitable campaigns featured on the Causes website.

2-      Network forGood

Besides powering many online giving sites, Network for Good has its own online giving website that provides a simple way for donors to give to their preferred charities, keep all their giving records in one place, and widen the word about those charities to friends. You can search for volunteer opportunities on the website, set up monthly giving and buy a gift card to give to a friend or loved one.

3-      Razoo

Razoo is a coin of the minimum value. This site believes that it does not take millions of dollars to make a difference; the supreme opportunities for change lie in the hands of "everyday philanthropists" who want to use their resources for the advantage of others.

4-      CharityNavigator

If you'd rather be safe than sorry about your charitable contributions and enjoy a bit of research, try donating through Charity Navigator.

Charity Navigator rates charities based on very firm criteria that include financial health, transparency, and accountability.

Donating to Charity

What Is a Donation?

Donating

A voluntary gift such as money, services, property, new or used goods (like old cars), assets such as stocks and bonds to a valuable cause, typically for charitable purposes. The donation often called a contribution.

Types of Charitable Donations

Donating to Charity

1- Cash Donations

Cash Donating

There are different ways of making a donation under your will. A cash gift is the simplest and the most obvious.

2- Gifts in Kind

Donating used cars to charity

Instead of a cash gift under your will, you could give for a gift of tangible property (like car donate) to be made to one or more charities. For example, you might consider donating valuable paintings to a public art gallery, a donation of attractive real estate to a provincial conservation authority, or maybe donating a car to a hospital foundation for its use in transporting patients.

3- Using Life Insurance for Charitable Purposes

A few people are worth “more dead than alive” to the charities they support, because they have obtained extra life insurance and nominated the charity as the beneficiary.

4- Charitable Gift Annuities

Another donation practice involves making a cash donation to a charity, in return for a life annuity. Possibly you have your mind made up that you want a capital sum to go to a specific charity after your death. You cannot make the donation now because you need to keep the funds invested to provide you with interest or dividend income to live on.

5- Charitable Remainder Trusts

In some situations a trust can be used to make a donation of property to a charity. A charitable remainder trust involves the creation of a trust under the terms of which a particular charity is named as the capital beneficiary and the donor is named as the income beneficiary. The donor would then transfer one or more assets to the trust. The trustees of the trust would hold the legal title to the property under the terms and conditions spelled out in a written trust agreement.

What are Human Rights?

Human Rights

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other rank. We are all uniformly entitled to our human rights with no discrimination. These rights are all interconnected, interdependent and inseparable.

Universal human rights are often expressed and guaranteed by law, in the forms of treaties, customary international law, common principles and other sources of international law. International human rights law lays down obligations of governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to encourage and protect human rights and basic freedoms of individuals or groups.