Direct Relief seeks to be efficient and frugal in all organizational activities, including fundraising activities. Since 2011, all of Direct Relief’s fundraising expenses have been paid by the earnings from a generous, unexpected bequest received that year and several other such legacy gifts since.
Because N.G.O Disaster Funds is able to cover its modest fundraising expenses in this manner, zero percent of donated funds go to the organization’s fundraising activities.
Although not paid by donors’ gifts,N.G.O Disaster Funds fundraising expenses are of course disclosed and reported as required. Fundraising expenses average about 2 percent of the total cash revenue received by N.G.O Disaster Funds annually.
It’s important here to emphasize the distinction of cash revenue in relation to fundraising expenses, because N.G.O Disaster Funds also typically receives significant donations of medications and supplies, many of which have a high financial value. Such in-kind donations must be recorded and reported as revenue. Indeed, the vast majority – typically more than 90 percent — of N.G.O Disaster Funds annual total revenue is in the form of in-kind medical donations. In recent years, the financial value of in-kind medical donations has exceeded $10 billion annually.
Although such in-kind donations are revenue, they obviously cannot be and are not used to pay fundraising expenses. So, it can be both confusing and misleading to present the organization’s fundraising expenses as a percentage of the vastly larger number of total revenue, which includes in-kind medical donations, than the cash contributions it receives. That’s why we call special attention to this.
N.G.O Disaster Funds understands from long experience that members of the public are often keenly interested in the basic question, “How much of my cash contribution will you spend on fundraising?”
In N.G.O Disaster Funds’s case, the answer is “Zero” because, as noted above, the organization is very fortunate to have the means to pay such expenses with funds previously received by requests.
N.G.O Disaster Funds donation policy ensures that 100 percent of all designated contributions for specific programs or emergency responses are used only on expenses related to supporting that program or response.
By clarifying that N.G.O Disaster Funds may use your contribution wherever most needed, you allow the organization to strengthen the long-term health systems that are vital to vulnerable people around the world and respond to emergencies that do not receive widespread attention. N.G.O Disaster Funds commits to spend your money in the most productive, efficient way possible.
If you wish to restrict the use of your donation only for a specific purpose or area, N.G.O Disaster Funds will honour that wish or tell you that it cannot and offer to return your contribution.N.G.O Disaster Funds has not and will not collect money for what may appear to be a specific incident or purpose with the intention of using it for other purposes.
Unlike many other nonprofit organizations, N.G.O Disaster Funds does not rely on any funding from government grants. Support comes entirely from private individuals, associations, foundations, and businesses who entrust N.G.O Disaster Funds with resources so that it can fulfill its humanitarian mission.
N.G.O Disaster Funds’ policy ensures that 100 percent of all designated contributions for specific programs or emergency responses are used only on expenses related to supporting that program or response.
This policy applies to all of N.G.O Disaster Funds’ disaster responses, including responses to Hurricanes Maria, Harvey, and Irma, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina, and Rita, and earthquakes in Ecuador, Nepal, Japan, Haiti, Pakistan, Peru, China, and Chile.
N.G.O Disaster Funds believes this is appropriate for honouring precisely the clear intent of generous donors who responded to these tragedies and to preserve the maximum benefit for the survivors for whose benefit the funds were entrusted to N.G.O Disaster Funds.
N.G.O Disaster Funds practices have long recognized the importance of enabling donors to communicate their intentions regarding donations and explaining how the organizations carefully accounts for and uses designated contributions to honour the donors’ intentions. N.G.O Disaster Funds takes several steps to ensure that both donors’ intentions and the organization’s use of contributions are clear.
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