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Donating to the
Association of Manitoba Museums
The AMM accepts donations through CanadaHelps. This is our preferred method of accepting charitable donations:
Why is this our preferred method?
- The CanadaHelps Web portal is easy and secure for us to manage and donors to use
- Multiple methods of payment are accepted: Credit Card, PayPal, Google Pay, and Gift Card
- Donors enter all of the information that is required for the charity receipt
- We can easily send personalized thanks to each donor
- Donors can choose to make anonymous donations (this protects donors from receiving annoying fundraising requests, we will receive your donation but will not be able to thank you directly)
- CanadaHelps issues CRA-compliant tax receipts on behalf of the AMM for the full amount of the donation
- A modest percentage of each donation goes to CanadaHelps to support its own operations as a charity (this fee is worth it because we save time handling donations and issuing charity receipts)
- CanadaHelps deposits the funds directly into the AMM's bank account on a weekly basis
- We spend less time handling donations and more time on our mission
Other Methods of Donating
We gratefully accept all donations made by any means but we benefit in two ways if donations are made via our preferred method (via CanadaHelps). Other methods of donating to the AMM also involve user fees (at the donor end or at our end) and they require more time for us to manage each donation and issue the tax receipts.
Credit Cards
We do not directly accept credit card payments at this time as this would require us to have our own secure portal for accepting payments. This form of payment also generally involves additional user fees at the one or both ends.
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
Donors can make donations by EFT directly into the AMM bank account. The donor usually pays an additional transaction fee to its bank for this convenience. The AMM must obtain the necessary contact information from the donor to be able to issue CRA-compliant tax receipts.
Donations via PayPal
PayPal offers a secure way to make payments using your credit card. The AMM pays a transaction fee for each donation made in this way. The AMM must obtain the information from the donor and prepare/issue a tax receipt for each donation.
Click here to donate to AMM via PayPal
Donations via Cheque through the Mail
Donors can still make donations using cheques through the mail. However, the AMM must then determine if the donation is eligible for a tax receipt and verify the recipient of the receipt. Although the AMM does not pay any additional fees per donation, it requires staff time to handle the cheques (collect and open the mail, deposit cheques into the bank), verify contact information, and create/send out the tax receipts.
Contribute to the AMM's Endowment Fund
The Manitoba Heritage Trust Program provides support for museums and archives, to start and grow endowments supporting their mission.
The program, initiated by the Province of Manitoba, is administered by the Winnipeg Foundation with support from the Association of Manitoba Museums and the Association for Manitoba Archives.
Visit Endow Manitoba for more information.
We thank you for your generous donation!
The Association of Manitoba Museums is a Registered Charity. You can access the information we have filed with the Canadian Charities Directorate.
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