Friday, April 1, 2011

A road block

I have recently come upon a road block preventing me from raising money for the local school. The school - or at least the parent organization they call La Junta Escolar - has a bank account. I assumed that it would be possible to utilize PayPal's service for donations so that people could easily and securely donate money directly to the account. I contacted the U.S. company to ask them if they would apply the reduced rate they apply for 501(c) organizations to the school, and also if they would change their pages about donations so that they could appear in Spanish like some of their other pages can. This is the response I got:

Dear Colin Yarnell,

We appreciate your interest in PayPal. However, due to legal and
regulatory constraints, PayPal is unable to process payments for or on
behalf of Charities, Political Party/Organization Donations, Non-Profit
Organizations (NPOs), Religious Institutions, etc in countries under the
PayPal Private Limited jurisdiction. You may refer to the PayPal Private
Limited User Agreement link
(https://www.paypal.com/sg/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/ua-outside) to
review the list of countries under its jurisdiction.

If you are affiliated with a subordinate charitable organization in the
U.S. that you would like to collect funds on your behalf, that
organization may be eligible to open up a PayPal account.


So I'm probably going to need to find another way to make it possible for people to donate money to them. If you know of a company similar to PayPal that would allow this, please let me know!

No comments:

Post a Comment