Planned Giving: Using e-Bay to help GRRCC
If it sounds a bit far fetched to use the most popular Internet auction
site to benefit Golden Retriever Rescue Club of Charlotte,
you'll want to read on a bit further to understand the true potential.
Consider this for starters: eBay has raised $300,000 for non-profits so
far.
eBay, the online
auction company, now allows its 69 million individual and corporate
customers to assign all or part of their online proceeds to Golden
Retriever Rescue Club of Charlotte. It's really quite simple. If
you are a regular buyer or a seller on eBay and already have an eBay user
name and password, you'll want to take just a minute to register with
MissionFish, eBay's charity solution provider at
http://www.missionfish.org
If you've never shopped or sold items on eBay, it takes
less than a minute to register and set up your account using the same
MissionFish link above.
Once registered with MissionFish, you can search for
items currently on auction that are scheduled to benefit Golden
Retriever Rescue Club of Charlotte and bid on these items
yourself. You can also list items to sell designating Golden
Retriever Rescue Club of Charlotte to receive anywhere from 10%
to 100% of the proceeds from each item auctioned.
If you've been contemplating a garage sale or have items
of value you feel would do particularly well on eBay, please consider
helping out GRRCC as you shop and sell. On eBay, you can sell or buy just
about anything from a high school yearbook to real estate.
eBay may be the largest online charitable retailer, but
it is not the only one. If you shop online, you can also designate GRRCC
as a recipient of up to 35% of the cost of items purchased at
buyforcharity.com and up to 15% of items purchased at
www.greatergood.com.
When you make a gift of this type or any other to GRRCC,
you will promptly receive a thank you acknowledgement letter with the
charitable amount of your gift to use for tax purposes.
