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This page provides information and resources for our charity partners. Please take time to explore the features of your Friends Fund and see how your partnership with Give2Asia can complement your own fundraising initiatives.

As a Give2Asia Friends Fund partner, your organization can now accept tax-deductible contributions from supporters in the US and Hong Kong SAR PRC. Give2Asia provides a trusted platform for managing overseas donations and an alternative to establishing and maintaining a US nonprofit entity. Give2Asia handles donations of cash, stock, and Bitcoin; manages all tax receipts; and handles all of the requirements for disbursing international funds to your organization.

YOUR ORGANIZATION will have its own fundraising page that is linked and searchable at the Give2Asia website and enabled to received donations via credit card. Use your unique URL to promote giving to your international supporters by sharing the link through your email, website and social media, as well as printed materials.

YOUR SUPPORTERS are eligible for tax benefits on their gifts to your Friends Fund(s) through Give2Asia. Give2Asia issues tax receipts to all donors within 2 weeks of their donation (and immediately for online donations).

YOUR SUPPORT TEAM is available at all times to answer questions, provide guidance, and connect you with resources that can further support your mission.

  • Annly Duong, Grant Operations Manager
  • Yvette Camba, Philanthropy Associate

The Give2Asia Network Badge is your “seal of approval” for accepting international donations. It communicates to supporters that they can support your work with a tax deductible gift through Give2Asia:

You can use the badge to link directly to your Give2Asia fundraising page from your website or email signature.

  

Your unique fundraising page is linked and searchable at the Give2Asia website and enabled to received donations via credit card. Use your unique fundraising page URL to promote giving by sharing the link through your email, website, social media, and printed materials. Your page will appear smoothly on any modern computer, tablet, and phone.

Note: While tax benefits are only available to donors where your fund is located (e.g. the United States, Australia and Hong Kong), the form can process donations from many countries.

New Friends Fund partners

  • To submit content for your donation page, go to: https://give2asia.org/onboarding
    • Prepare the following for a quick upload to our donation page onboarding system
      • 2-3 compelling photographs showing your program or services
        • Image must be at least 1400pixels wide
        • No added text or collages, because they will not appear correctly on different devices 
        • Instead of a main image, you may opt to upload a video link (YouTube or Vimeo)
      • 4 short paragraphs describing your organization’s 1) Mission, 2) Need or challenge to solve, 3) Solution, and 4) Impact
        • 300 characters max for each paragraph
      • Additional text describing your programs (optional)
      • Logo
      • Website URL
      • Social media links (optional)

Current partners may edit content in an existing fundraising page by sending it to friendsfund@give2asia.org. Please include the name of your Friends Fund in the subject line.

If your donor has a question about giving through Give2Asia, here are some resources to share:

Fees on Contributions*

Effective July 1, 2021, fees are charged on total gifts (cumulative amount raised in your fund) in a calendar year.

For American Friends Funds:

  • First US$100,000 of gifts: 5%
  • Next US$400,000 of gifts: 3%
  • Next US$500,000 of gifts 1%
  • Gift total over US$1 million: 0.5%

For Friends Funds in Hong Kong SAR PRC:

  • First HK$750,000 of gifts: 5%
  • Next HK$3 million of gifts: 3%
  • Next HK$3.75 million of gifts: 1%
  • Gift total over HK$7.5 million: 0.5%

* A separate fee schedule applies for Friends Funds that benefit China-based charities. Credit card donations are also assessed a processing fee of 2 – 3.5%, which is charged by our credit card processor.

US Employee Giving Platforms

Donations via Benevity, Deed, and other similar employee giving programs may also be received in your Friends Fund. You will also receive any attributable matching donations provided by your donor’s employer, minus fees. Please note that these platforms may charge their own fee in addition to Give2Asia’s. There is a 6-8 week processing time to receive these donations and view them in your portal.  

Your Fund Portal

Give2Asia’s portal allows you to log in and view your account information, fund balance, donations, donors and contacts, fees, and distributions. If you would like to receive a PDF copy of a fund statement, please reach out to friendsfund@give2asia.org.

Access instructions and guidelines are found in the Portal Guide (coming soon).

Online donations, checks, wires, and securities donations will typically appear in your Fund Wednesday of the week after they have been received.

Upon approval as a Give2Asia Friends Fund Partner, you will receive an email with instructions on how to create your password and log on to the portal. After you have created your password, you can log in anytime at https://giveasia.fcsuite.com/erp/portal.

If you have not received this email, please contact us.

All Distribution Requests should be submitted through your Fund Portal, you can log-in at https://giveasia.fcsuite.com/erp/portal.

Distribution requests must clearly describe where the funds will be used and indicate measurable and time-bound success indicators. Instructions and guidelines are found at this Distribution Manual.

Special Activities: Requests covering scholarship funds should include information on the application, review, timeline, no. of target beneficiaries and  selection process.

If the funds will be used towards an endowment fund, please notify friendsfund@give2asia.org.

Processing time: Give2Asia sends out funds via wire transfers Fridays weekly. In order to allow time for processing please submit distribution requests at least one week before you would like to receive the funds.

Please allow three to five days for processing from the wiring date to receipt of funds in the local bank.

Minimum request amount: $5,000.00. Requests for funds below $5,000 may be accommodated upon review (i.e. accounting purposes, disaster relief, emergency) . Please note that banks sometimes assess wire transfer fees on incoming wires. Give2Asia does not cover the cost of these transfer fees.

Give2Asia requires grantees to submit a progress or completion report for each distribution. In order to process a distribution, your organization must not have any overdue reports from previous distributions.

For any clarifications, please send an email to friendsfund@give2asia.org.

Friends Fund grantees are required to report on the use of funds using Give2Asia’s Grant Report Form.

Reports are due one month after the end date provided in the distribution request. Failure to submit reports will result in the delay of future distributions.

Grant Changes: If there is a need to reallocate funds or change the purpose of the distribution within the grant period please seek approval from your Give2Asia representative prior to implementing any changes.

Unused Funds: All funds must be expended at the end of a specified grant period. If there are unused funds at the end of the project period, you will be asked to provide an additional report on the use of those funds once they have been expended.

Multiple Distributions to one program: If there are multiple distributions funding the same project during the same time period, you may submit one combined report for the multiple distributions.

For extension and reallocation requests, please use this Amendment Form and send to the Friends Fund team.

If your organization needs to change an authorized signatory for the Fund, or if you need to change your organization’s bank account information, please contact friendsfund@give2asia.org.

To change the content on your Give2Asia fundraising page, email the new content to friendsfund@give2asia.org. Please include the name of your Friends Fund in the subject line.

Are you a new Friends Fund partner looking for ways on how to spread the news about your new donation page? Or, have you been with Give2Asia for a while and looking to increase donor activity? We have compiled some tips on how you can communicate about our partnership, which also includes key talking points and sample social media content. Download the Tipsheet. 

Use our fundraising tools page to find fundraising tips and tools that will help you maximize your fundraising—both during and after this giving season.