Gift Acceptance Policy: deciding which donations to accept
A gift acceptance policy sets out which donations an organisation will and will not accept, and under what conditions, covering issues such as donor due diligence, restricted gifts and reputational risk.
A clear policy protects the organisation from problematic funding and gives staff a consistent basis for evaluating and recording every gift.
Frequently Asked Questions
Related terms
The newest terms we've added, the words teams managing grants, sponsorship, and CSR come across most often.
Project Grant
A project grant is funding awarded for a specific, defined piece of work, with its own objectives, timeline and budget, rather than for the general running of the organisation receiving it.
It is the most common form of grant. The funder approves a described project and expects to be told what that project achieved, which is why project grants carry heavier reporting requirements than unrestricted funding.
Data Residency
Data residency is the country or region where a platform physically stores the data you put into it. It is a contractual commitment, not a technical preference, and a supplier should be able to state it in writing.
For grant, sponsorship and volunteering programmes the data in question includes applicant and employee personal data, which is what moves residency out of the IT conversation and into procurement.
Expenditure Responsibility
Expenditure responsibility is the set of steps a US private foundation must take when it grants to an organisation that is not a public charity: a pre-grant inquiry, a written agreement restricting the use of funds, separate accounting by the grantee, reports on how the money was spent, and disclosure on the foundation's own return.
The obligation follows the money, not the recipient's good faith. Omitting a step is a compliance failure even where the funds achieved exactly what both parties intended.
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