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Your donations are 100% tax deductible, safe, secure and private. We do not share any donor information with any third party. Our mail and email lists are private. RWF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our EIN is 94-3372560. We are Guidestar registered.

RWF is a labor of love from the LGBT and friends community to the world.

Our staff carefully determines how your gift is distributed to each of our projects based on current need. Your donations are applied to have maximum impact around the world. If you wish to designate your gift for (a) specific area(s), we will apply your gift to that (those) area(s) See how...   By giving an unrestricted donation you greatly enhance our ability to respond quickly to emergencies and allow RWF to keep running.

RWF is an all-volunteer run organization. We have no salary expenses. The expenses we do have (printing, Internet, for example), we keep to an absolute minimum.

RWF's Efficiency

Of every one dollar RWF received (monetary donations, grants, interest income and contributed supplies) in 2005, 98.5 cents went to programs and services that directly benefited those most in need. Administrative and fundraising costs accounted for only 1.5 cents of each dollar. Most of RWF's administrative and fundraising expenses were covered by Board of Director contributions and a small grant.

This allows LGBT-and-friends funds to have maximum positive impact helping those most in need.

We work very hard to stretch your donations and we apply them in ways that create cooperation, fraternity and peace. By utilizing our partners' established and effective service-delivery networks, we are able to quickly and efficiently get aid to the most remote regions in the world.

If you specifically wish to contribute toward helping RWF run, please specify "operational costs" when you make a donation.


TO DONATE BY CHECK

 

Your donation is 100% tax-deductible. Please make your check payable to "Rainbow World Fund" and mail it to:

Rainbow World Fund
P.O. Box 14480
San Francisco, CA 94114-2336

 

Specify how you would like you donation spent in the memo section of your check. See how...


OTHER WAYS TO DONATE

Buy for Charity
Shop online from over 350 stores like Barnes & Noble, Gap, Cooking.com, 1-800-Flowers, Amazon.com, Orbitz.com, and more at www.buyforcharity.com. Up to 35% of each purchase will benefit Rainbow World Fund if you select our organization as your cause of choice.

Donate Stock

Email stockdonation@rainbowfund.org to learn how to donate stock to Rainbow World Fund.

Donate an Airplane Ticket

Help us with our travel costs throughout the year. If you have saved up enough airline miles for a trip, please consider using those mile to help RWF purchase a ticket. Email tickets@rainbowfund.org or call 415-431-1485 to learn how you can help.

Sponsor a Day
Sponsor a day at your corporation on behalf of Rainbow World Fund. Does your company have sales days where a percentage of the profits are donated to a charity? Why not name RWF as the charity?

Donate by a Bequest
Another way to make a deferred gift to Rainbow World Fund is to include the Fund in your will or name the Fund as a beneficiary of a trust, retirement plan, or life insurance policy. Please email us at giving@rainbowfund.org if you have made a bequest to the Fund so we can count you in our annual report.

 

 

 

 

 

$35,000

An entire Cambodian minefield cleared.

$10,000              

Safe water for a Honduran village.

$5,000

Materials for 50 village latrines.

$2,400

The yearly stipend for a HIV/AIDS peer educator in South Africa.

$1,000                

Safe water for several Honduran families.

$500                   

22 cases of hospital surgical masks and gowns.

$150  

1 month of meals for an African hospice patient.

$50  

Material to connect a village household to it's water system.

$15 

1 case of hospital surgical gloves.

$5

3 meals for an AIDS hospice patient.