Donate

​Each Me​mber commits to donating $100 per meeting, four times a year. Meetings are diligently conducted in one hour or less.

Nominate

Any member who has signed a Commitment Form and who is current with his donations may submit an Organization Submission Fact Sheet to nominate an organization for consideration at a meeting.

Vote

Three randomly selected organizations will make a presentation about the organization and a Q&A session will follow. Each member who has signed a Commitment Form and who is current with his donations may vote for one of the three organizations.

How We Work

• Each Member commits to donating $100 per meeting, four times a year. Meetings are diligently conducted in one hour or less.
• Any member who has signed a Commitment Form and who is current with his donations may submit an Organization Submission Fact Sheet to nominate an organization for consideration at a meeting.
• The nominating members of three randomly selected organizations will make a five minute presentation about the organization to the group and a Q&A session will follow.
• Each member who has signed a Commitment Form and who is current with his donations may vote (by ballot) for one of the three organizations.
• Each member will donate via the Charitable Impact online tool, or write a cheque for $100 to the organization receiving the most votes. 
• The selected organization will receive a group donation of $10,000 or more (depending on the donations received)!
• Members who did not vote for the selected organization agree to make their donation regardless.
• Members will receive a tax receipt directly from the organization if they donate by cheque. If the member uses Charitable Impact, they will receive an immediate tax receipt from the foundation.
• Members who are unable to attend a meeting are expected to give his cheque to another member to deliver on his behalf or make their donation on Charitable Impact.
• Organizations under consideration must serve the Hamilton area and provide individual tax receipts directly to contributing members.
• A presenting organization not selected as the member choice at a meeting may be submitted again for consideration at a future meeting, but not the one immediately following.
• No charity can be chosen as the voted members choice, more than once per year.
• In the event of a tie, the total donated amount will be evenly split between the tied charities.
• The selected organization must agree not to give out member information to any third parties except for tax purposes.
• Each meeting will include time for the previous meeting’s member selected charity to share how the donated funds were used and the impact they had.

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