General FAQ from CanadaHelps: Our Online Pledge Form
What are GivingPages?
GivingPages are a new feature at CanadaHelps, which enables people to raise money online for the charities they support, with personalized fundraising pages. GivingPages are an easy way for fundraisers to reach out to friends, families and colleagues, and makes it easy for those people to donate.
Does it cost me anything to use GivingPages?
No. CanadaHelps assesses a transaction fee of 3.9% from each donation to cover the costs of accepting credit cards online and processing the donations for the charities. Donations to charities that aren’t registered for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) of donations are assessed an additional 1% (for a total of 4.9% per transaction). These fees are very cost-effective for charities that choose to fundraise online. By using CanadaHelps, you save the Pathways the time and cost of tax receipting, collecting cheques or cash, printing and mailing letters, and creating their own in-house online e-commerce system for accepting online donations.
How do I create a GivingPage?
GivingPages are very easy to create, however for the purpose of the Pathways Night Walk, Pathways will create one for you under our own event page. All you have to do is fill out the REGISTRATION FORM, and within 24 hours you will receive an email with your personal GivingPage link so you may begin promoting your page and accepting donations.
How do I find a GivingPage to donate to?
You can search for your own page or for a registered participant by visiting http://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPages.aspx and searching for the page creator’s name, or browse for pages by category.
GivingPages are a new feature at CanadaHelps, which enables people to raise money online for the charities they support, with personalized fundraising pages. GivingPages are an easy way for fundraisers to reach out to friends, families and colleagues, and makes it easy for those people to donate.
Does it cost me anything to use GivingPages?
No. CanadaHelps assesses a transaction fee of 3.9% from each donation to cover the costs of accepting credit cards online and processing the donations for the charities. Donations to charities that aren’t registered for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) of donations are assessed an additional 1% (for a total of 4.9% per transaction). These fees are very cost-effective for charities that choose to fundraise online. By using CanadaHelps, you save the Pathways the time and cost of tax receipting, collecting cheques or cash, printing and mailing letters, and creating their own in-house online e-commerce system for accepting online donations.
How do I create a GivingPage?
GivingPages are very easy to create, however for the purpose of the Pathways Night Walk, Pathways will create one for you under our own event page. All you have to do is fill out the REGISTRATION FORM, and within 24 hours you will receive an email with your personal GivingPage link so you may begin promoting your page and accepting donations.
How do I find a GivingPage to donate to?
You can search for your own page or for a registered participant by visiting http://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPages.aspx and searching for the page creator’s name, or browse for pages by category.
How do I let my supporters know about my GivingPage?
Once your GivingPage has been created, you are emailed a custom URL that will bring donors to your GivingPage. You can send an email message to your friends, family and supporters. Social media is the best way to tell people what your doing, so tweet your URL on Twitter, Pin-it on Pinterest, post it on Facebook, and you can also link the URL to your website or blog page! If your interested in making more face-to-face interactions, consider making business cards with all of your fundraising information to hand out to anyone you meet. |
How does Pathways get the money that I fundraise?
Payment is sent to Pathways monthly. The 3.9% transaction fee is deducted from the donation amount.
Who gets the tax receipt? How does it get sent?
Donors get the tax receipt, and they are emailed as soon as payment has been made. Tax receipts are sent by email as secure PDFs, and will require that the donor have Adobe Reader installed to open the document.
Payment is sent to Pathways monthly. The 3.9% transaction fee is deducted from the donation amount.
Who gets the tax receipt? How does it get sent?
Donors get the tax receipt, and they are emailed as soon as payment has been made. Tax receipts are sent by email as secure PDFs, and will require that the donor have Adobe Reader installed to open the document.