MEETING INFORMATION:
How Do I Pay?

How do I donate if I can't attend the meeting?

If you can’t attend, you are still expected to make your donation to the selected charity. There are four ways to do this:

  1. You can use our new ONLINE DONATION system to pay with a credit card. This is explained below.
  2. You can send a $100 signed check to Laurie Richter in advance of the meeting, and we will fill in the chosen charity when it is selected. Contact Laurie at Laurie100Women@gmail.com to get her mailing address.
  3. You can send a $100 signed check to the meeting with another member and authorize her to write in the name of the charity that is chosen.  
  4. If you can’t do either of these, the last (and least preferred) option is to pay after the meeting is over.  The name of the chosen charity will be posted on our website and our Facebook page, and you can mail your check, made payable to the chosen charity, to Laurie Richter.  This is the least preferred option because waiting to collect all the checks will delay the award to the charity.

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O​NLINE PAYMENT SYSTEM - PAY BY CREDIT CARD

We are pleased to announce our new ONLINE PAYMENT system. It is run by Growfund which is part of Global Impact—a philanthropy based organization that has been around since 1956.  Growfund was developed specifically to support giving circle like ours.

Your cash donation on their site does not direct any of your contact information to the charity, thereby protecting your identity, but Global impact is a 501(c)(3) and will provide you with documentation in the form of a tax receipt.  You will also receive a thank you from the charity.   

​Quick facts about paying by credit card:
  1. ​It is OPTIONAL, not mandatory
  2. There are two ways to pay by credit card. The preferable method is to set up a subscription which automatically charges your credit card after every meeting. You are free to change or cancel the subscription at any time. The second option is to go to the Growfund website each time you want to pay by credit card and just pay for that quarter's donation.
  3. You can donate BEFORE or AFTER the meeting. It is not necessary to know the name of the charity. The donation goes to Global Impact, and after the meeting, we will provide them with the names of the three charities we have selected, and how much goes to each ($500 to two of them, the remainder to the third.)
  4. For the charity to get your full $100 donation, please put $105 on your card to cover credit card and platform fees.  
  5. For tax purposes, you will receive a receipt from 501(c)(3) Global Impact.  The charity will NOT RECEIVE any information about you.
  6. Growfund will cut checks to the charities on our behalf as we direct them.  
  7. Benefits are:
  • Not having to remember to bring a check to the meeting or send a check in the mail
  • Never being solicited because your name is protected
  • Credit card points
  • We won't have to hound you constantly to send checks
MAKE A CREDIT CARD PAYMENT USING Growfund
CLICK HERE FOR STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR DONATING VIA "GROWFUND" 
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Why can't I just send the donation to the charity myself?

  • The goal of 100 Women Who Care is to make a large, collective donation of $10,000 or more that will have an impact on our community.  Individual donations that trickle into a charity will not have the same impact or enable the charity to undertake a major project based on the single, large donation.

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Is my contribution tax deductible?

  • Yes.  Since all of our charities must be a 501(c)(3) organization, your contribution is tax deductible. Your cancelled check or credit card receipt from Global Impact is sufficient documentation of the tax-deductible donation. You may receive a thank you letter from the charity, but your canceled check or credit card receipt is all that is necessary for the IRS.

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