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 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 [email protected] 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 offer an ONLINE PAYMENT system. It is run by Grapevine and supported by Social Good Fund which is a 501(c)3 charity.
 
Your cash donation on Grapevine's site does not give any of your contact information to the charity, thereby protecting your identity, but Social Good Fund will provide you with documentation in the form of a tax receipt.    

Quick facts about creating an account on Grapevine and paying by credit card:
  1. You will be invited by Grapevine via email to set up a Grapevine account. ​
  2. Paying by credit card is OPTIONAL, not mandatory, but we would like all members to create an account.
  3. 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 Grapevine website each time you want to pay by credit card and just pay for that quarter's donation.
  4. You can also use the Grapevine platform to authorize your bank to transfer funds (vs. writing a check).
  5. You can donate BEFORE or AFTER the meeting. It is not necessary to know the name of the charity. The donation goes to Social Good Fund, 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).
  6. For the charity to get your full $100 donation, we are asking you to cover the credit card fee. Grapevine does NOT charge a fee but works on a tip basis—you can leave as much or as little as you like for a tip.
  7. For tax purposes, you will receive a receipt from 501(c)(3) Social Good Fund.  The charity will NOT RECEIVE any information about you.
  8. Grapevine will cut checks to the charities on our behalf as we direct them.  
  9. The benefits of signing up with Grapevine are:
  • Not having to remember to bring a check to the meeting or send a check in the mail
  • Credit card points
  • We never have to hound you to make the payment!
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Link to access your existing Grapevine Account

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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