Terms of Service - 2023

Partner Eligibility Requirements 2023

To be a partner of El Paso Giving Day 2023, your organization must comply with the following from the date it signs this form through December 31, 2023:

  • Be headquartered or provide services in Paso del Norte region.
  • Be in good standing in your state of the organization and in each state where your organization operates.
  • Be a publicly supported charitable organization or Type I supporting organization or operate under the fiscal sponsorship of public charity described in sections 170(b)(l)(A)(vi), 501(c)(3), and 509(a)(l), 509(a)(2) or 509(a)(3) or a of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
  • Be current in the filing of state and federal tax returns
  • Private foundations, places of worship and individuals are not eligible.
  • Pay the $10 fee to register your organization.

Partnership Terms 2023

Understand and agree as follows:

  • Each gift processed as part of El Paso Giving Day is made to the Paso del Norte Community Foundation. The Paso del Norte Community Foundation will issue tax-receipts for all gifts made as part of El Paso Giving Day. Participating nonprofits may send thank you letters for gifts designated to their organizations but may not issue a tax-receipt.
  • All donations through El Paso Giving Day must be 100% tax deductible; consequently, no goods or services may be exchanged for the gift. Neither your organization nor any person raising funds for your organization can offer any kind of incentive (time, product or consideration) in exchange for donations made through El Paso Giving Day.
  • Your organization is solely responsible for cultivating each donor. El Paso Giving Day is only responsible for providing a tax receipt, which will be sent electronically immediately after a gift is received.
  • El Paso Giving Day is a vehicle that allows individuals to donate to nonprofit organizations on their own initiative and that it is not intended as a vehicle to facilitate gifts that you have solicited through other means, such as payment for event sponsorships, meals or banquets, pledge payments, purchase raffle tickets or payment of membership dues or fees.
  • Each gift processed through El Paso Giving Day must be used exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.
  • Your organization must actively publicize your partnership with El Paso Giving Day in a responsible and appropriate way in your print, electronic and social media, including in your annual report, website, newsletters, press releases, email communications, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Tumbler, using the El Paso Giving Day logo and trademarks when doing so. El Paso Giving Day grants you a revocable, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use its logo and trademarks solely for such purpose.
  • Participants in El Paso Giving Day are expected to engage in actions consistent with the mission of Paso del Norte Community Foundation, and agree to not use the EPGD platform to disseminate misinformation or malign the work of other participating non-profit organizations.
  • El Paso Giving Day may remove your profile from www.ElPasoGivingDay.org in its sole discretion at any time.
  • All information entered into your El Paso Giving Day profile must be accurate and correct.
  • Each donation made to a participating nonprofit will be disbursed via direct deposit six to eight weeks after El Paso Giving Day and include any available incentive prizes or matching funds.
  • El Paso Giving Day will not share or sell donor information to any other organization or entity, but El Paso Giving Day and Paso del Norte Community Foundation does reserve the right to communicate with donors for the purpose of user surveys, newsletters and general education about philanthropy.
  • Your organization must immediately notify El Paso Giving Day if there is a change in your organization’s partnership eligibility requirements on or before December 31, 2023.
  • El Paso Giving Day is a program of the Paso del Norte Community Foundation (PdNCF) and all donations are subject to the ultimate control of the PdNCF and its board.

The Paso del Norte Community Foundation charges a small fee of $10 to area nonprofit organizations for participation. The PdNCF invests more than $35,000 a year in in-kind support to cover the costs of coordinating, accounting, and administering El Paso Giving Day. El Paso Giving Day reserves the right to amend, modify, or waive any of the foregoing terms and conditions without your consent and to interpret and construe these terms and conditions in its sole discretion.

Donor Terms 2023

Understand and agree as follows:

  • El Paso Giving Day is a program of the Paso del Norte Community Foundation (PdNCF) and all donations are subject to the ultimate control of the PdNCF and its board.
  • Each gift processed as part of El Paso Giving Day is made to the Paso del Norte Community Foundation. The Paso del Norte Community Foundation will issue tax-receipts for all gifts made as part of El Paso Giving Day. Participating nonprofits may send thank you letters for gifts designated to their organizations but may not issue a tax-receipt. El Paso Giving Day will collect bank drafts up to one week after El Paso Giving Day.
  • All donations through El Paso Giving Day must be 100% tax deductible; consequently, no goods or services may be exchanged for the gift. A participating organization nor any person raising funds for an organization can offer any kind of incentive (time, product or consideration) in exchange for donations made through El Paso Giving Day.
  • El Paso Giving Day will not share or sell donor information to any other organization or entity. El Paso Giving Day and Paso del Norte Community Foundation reserve the right to communicate with donors for the purpose of user surveys, newsletters and general education about philanthropy.