Donum Foundation Philanthropy Partners

Fund Donum's work, and see what happened to every chance your money paid for.

Donum Foundation Philanthropy Partners is being set up. Anyone interested in working with us can write to us at info@donumfoundation.org.

Philanthropy partners are the people and institutions who fund Donum's work under a written agreement. The agreement says what their money pays for.

→ For a gift without an agreement, of any amount, use the Donate page.

What your money can pay for

On the Donate page, you choose an open chance, or give to the general fund and we choose. As a partner, your agreement can name any one of these:

  • one kind of chance, such as exam fees, tools for work, or community projects
  • chances in one region
  • the general fund, which we use where it's needed most: for chances, and for what it costs to run Donum
  • only what it costs to run Donum
  • one of our planned projects

Within what your agreement names, we choose the chances, by the steps in How a chance works.

What a partner gets

  • Chances funded sooner. Money already agreed lets us fund a chance in your focus as soon as it is approved, so the person waits less.
  • A report on everything your money paid for. For each chance: what the gift was, what it cost, item by item, and what happened at six months, at a year, and whenever the change we planned for should show, including when it did not hold.
  • The records behind any chance, if you ask: the quote, the receipt and the signed delivery confirmation.
  • One person at Donum who answers your questions.
  • Your name among our partners on this page, if you want it. If you don't, we don't publish it.

About each person who receives a chance, a report or a record shows only what that person agreed to share. We hide the rest.

Visits

We don't take partners to visit the people or communities we serve. Each person who receives a chance agreed with us how much of their story may be shown, and that the rest stays private. A visit could show you more than they agreed to, and break that agreement. It can also make someone feel they owe something, and nobody repays Donum.

The one exception is a community project. If you fund one, you may take part while the work is being done. You go with our team, and you never contact anyone there on your own. Once the work is finished, there are no more visits.

Taxes

Gifts to Donum don't reduce your taxes anywhere yet. If that changes for your country, this page will say so.

Becoming a partner

Fill in the form below, and we will write the email for you. Or write your own to info@donumfoundation.org. We will explain how giving works from where you are, and agree everything in writing before you give anything.

Tell us what you would like to fund

Press the button at the end, and your email app opens with an email to us, written from your answers. Nothing you type is kept on this site.

Are you giving as a person or an institution?

A partner gives at least $1,000 a year as a person, or $10,000 a year as an institution.

What would you like your money to pay for? Choose one or more.

Say which kind, region or project in the last box.

Write the amount in your own currency. The email shows it in US dollars too, at today's rate. We agree the exact amount with you in writing.

How would you like to pay?

For example, who you are, what matters to you, or a question.

This page is for funding chances. If you need help yourself, write to us privately.

Individuals

Fund Donum's work as a person, from USD 1,000 a year.

  • Once a year or every month, as your agreement says.
  • In someone's name, if you like. The name goes with the chances your money pays for, as it does on the Donate page.
  • You can end it at any time. What you have already given stays with what it was given for. Each payment can be refunded in full within seven working days of it, as with any gift to Donum.

Institutions

Fund Donum's work as a company, a foundation, a trust or another charity, from USD 10,000 a year.

  • We plan it together. We meet with you and agree what your money funds, how we report to you, and how you take part. Bring your own ideas.
  • For one year or several, as your agreement says.
  • Before you decide, we send what your own checks need: the documents that set Donum up and say who runs it, our policies, and our accounts, once we have a full year of them. Ask for anything else.
  • Several partners can fund one chance together, such as a community project, each under its own agreement. Each report shows the whole chance and your part of it.