Gabriolan.ca » CanadaHelps http://gabriolan.ca Gabriola Island blog Wed, 23 May 2012 05:27:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Donating to Gabriola charities in 2010: last chance! http://gabriolan.ca/2010/12/31/gabriola-charity-2010/ http://gabriolan.ca/2010/12/31/gabriola-charity-2010/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:25:20 +0000 Gabriolan http://gabriolan.ca/?p=12471 Been meaning to donate to some Gabriola charity during the 2010 tax year? Today is your last chance! Here are some links to Gabriola charities you might consider, and here’s how you can donate online through CanadaHelps, which is one of the websites I love most. I think I’ll go give some money to the [...]

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]]> Been meaning to donate to some Gabriola charity during the 2010 tax year? Today is your last chance! Here are some links to Gabriola charities you might consider, and here’s how you can donate online through CanadaHelps, which is one of the websites I love most.

I think I’ll go give some money to the Gabriola Commons. And you?

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]]> http://gabriolan.ca/2010/12/31/gabriola-charity-2010/feed/ 0 On donating to the Gabriola Commons http://gabriolan.ca/2009/06/26/donate-gabriola-commons/ http://gabriolan.ca/2009/06/26/donate-gabriola-commons/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:30:03 +0000 Gabriolan http://gabriolan.ca/?p=3380 Some months ago a volunteer from the Gabriola Commons phoned me. Would I consider signing up to support the Commons? Would I give them a cheque to authorize bank account deductions each month? Well, no, I wouldn’t. I give to charities, but I don’t write cheques anymore, and that monthly deduction thing creeps me out. [...]

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]]> Gabriola CommonsSome months ago a volunteer from the Gabriola Commons phoned me. Would I consider signing up to support the Commons? Would I give them a cheque to authorize bank account deductions each month?

Well, no, I wouldn’t. I give to charities, but I don’t write cheques anymore, and that monthly deduction thing creeps me out. I like to make donations online.

I’ve since discovered a great thing: I can donate to the Gabriola Commons through CanadaHelps.org.

I’m tickled about this.

(Related post: Dear Gabriola Charities.)

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]]> http://gabriolan.ca/2009/06/26/donate-gabriola-commons/feed/ 2 Dear Gabriola charities http://gabriolan.ca/2009/04/01/gabriola-charities/ http://gabriolan.ca/2009/04/01/gabriola-charities/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:29:07 +0000 Gabriolan http://gabriolan.ca/?p=2514 Dear Gabriola charities, I’d give you a lot more money if I could donate online. Imagine me, at the end of last December, wanting to donate in a hurry before the end of the year. Yipes! No time to mail a cheque… and besides, I haven’t written a cheque in ages, since I pay all [...]

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]]> Dear Gabriola charities,

I’d give you a lot more money if I could donate online.

Imagine me, at the end of last December, wanting to donate in a hurry before the end of the year. Yipes! No time to mail a cheque… and besides, I haven’t written a cheque in ages, since I pay all my bills online. I don’t even have a cheque book for my current bank account.

So what did I do with that 2008 year-end donation money? I googled around and found some Canadian charities that do accept online donations. I picked one of those, and gave the whole sum to them.

I would have liked to have given that money to a Gabriola charity, but none of the ones I thought of checking had a website with an online donation option.

If you’re involved with a Gabriola charity, why not give me a way to donate online, through your website?

UPDATE: Now anybody can donate online to Gabriola charities, thanks to CanadaHelps. Fantastic!

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