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DONATE ONLINE
The process is very simple and completely secure – just click on the link below to make your online donation today help alleviate poverty in Haiti!
DONATE BY MAIL
Send your tax-deductible donation via check or money order today to
Fonkoze USA
50 F Street, NW, Suite 810
Washington, DC 20001
BECOME A PLEDGE PARTNER
Make a recurring donation via credit card to Fonkoze USA on a monthly basis. Click here to download the Pledge Partner participation form.
FONKOZE USA GIFT CATALOG
Click here to see how you can give smiles through micro-credit.
CONGREGATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
Click here to see how you and your congregational can support Fonkoze.
GIVE THE GIFT OF STOCK
Appreciated securities are perhaps the most cost-effective assets to use in making a gift. When you transfer ownership of a long-term holding to Fonkoze USA, you receive a charitable deduction for the full market value and you incur no capital gains tax. DO NOT sell the stock and send cash, as that will cause you to incur capital gains tax.
Download our full stock donation instruction sheet
Make a donation of stock to Fonkoze USA by electronic transfer
After downloading the instruction sheet, ask your broker or bank to wire the number of shares of stock you wish to donate to:
DTC # 0164 to: Charles Schwab
For Benefit of: Fonkoze USA
Account Number: 9110-1506
According to IRS regulations, the date of your gift for electronically transferred stock is the date it arrives in Fonkoze USA’s account. For gifts of stock transferred by mail by Irrevocable Stock Power, the date of gift is the date the stock certificate and Irrevocable Stock Power are postmarked. Fonkoze USA will send you a letter acknowledging your gift to use in claiming a charitable deduction for income tax purposes.
Make a donation of stock to Fonkoze USA and hold the stock certificate
After downloading the instruction sheet, complete the following steps.
- Send the certificate(s), unsigned, via Registered Mail to Fonkoze USA or Charles Schwab.
- Download the Irrevocable Stock Power Form. Fill in and sign the form and mail it to Fonkoze USA or Charles Schwab. DO NOT sign or fill in the back of the certificate to transfer it to Fonkoze USA. This saves the trouble and expense of first transferring the stock to Fonkoze USA on the corporation books and then immediately transferring it again when Fonkoze USA sells it.
- Mail the Stock Certificate and Stock Power Form to either:
- Leigh Carter, Executive Director
Fonkoze USA
50 F Street, NW Suite 810
Washington, DC 20001 - Charles Schwab
Orlando Operations
PO Box 628291
Orlando, FL 32862-8291
- Leigh Carter, Executive Director
- Download the Notification of Gift of Stock form. Fill it out and mail or fax it back to Fonkoze USA at
PLANNED GIVING
Fonkoze USA accepts a number of different types of planned gifts.
- Bequests—Designate Fonkoze USA as a beneficiary in your will. When our days on earth are ended and we depart this life, most of us want to be remembered for what we considered important. Writing a will is our final way of remembering the people and causes that were important to us. Writing a will is how we shape our legacy. Our legacy is what remains after we are gone. By remembering Fonkoze in our will, we can continue our caring for those less fortunate after our lifetime. Fonkoze will put each bequest into a special endowment account permanently named for you, the donor. Thereafter, each year in perpetuity, income from your bequest endowment will be used to support Fonkoze’s work of helping desperately poor families in Haiti to produce an income for themselves. The proper wording for including Fonkoze in your will is as follows: “I bequeath to Fonkoze USA, a non-profit organization incorporated and headquartered in New York, the sum of $______ (or ___%) of the remainder of my estate.
- Designate Fonkoze USA as a beneficiary of a Charitable Trust.
- Designate Fonkoze USA as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy.
- Donate real estate to Fonkoze USA by setting up a life estate.
If you have any questions, please contact John Mercier at Fonkoze USA.
SPONSOR A BRANCH OFFICE
Fonkoze is Haiti’s only nationwide microfinance bank serving the needs of Haiti’s rural poor. As of December 2006, Fonkoze had 30 branch offices nationwide. Fonkoze is constantly expanding its presence into even more rural areas to reach clients that have no other access to formal financial services. You can help Fonkoze serve these hard-to-reach clients by sponsoring a branch office.
The start-up costs for one year ranges from $40,000 to $60,000 depending on the location.
For more information on how you can help sponsor a branch office, please contact Anne Hastings.
CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS
Get your employer involved in alleviating poverty in Haiti!
- Ask your employer for a company form to submit along with your donation, for Fonkoze USA to process and send back to the employer. Shortly afterward, the company will send Fonkoze USA a matching gift. OR
- Send us your donation first. After you receive an acknowledgment from Fonkoze USA, thanking you for your contribution present it to your matching gifts officer. Your company can then complete the submission process.
For more information on how to get your employer involved, contact Fonkoze USA at 202.628.9033 or by email.
Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Fonkoze USA’s Tax ID number is 52-2022113.
IN KIND DONATIONS
Fonkoze welcomes the donated professional services of lawyers, accountants, public relations specialists, technology experts, and others. We also welcome donated computer and office equipment. Donated services and equipment are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.
For more information, please contact Fonkoze USA at 202.628.9033 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
INVEST IN OUR LOAN FUND
Some of FONKOZE USA's fundraising activities are available only to Accredited Investors as defined in Rule 501 of the Securities Act of 1933. Please download and print out this investor form and email, fax, or mail it back to Fonkoze USA. Fonkoze USA will then send you the information you need to make an informed decision regarding making a loan to our loan fund. Download information here