In-kind Donation
An in-kind donation is support given as something other than money: products, equipment, office space, or professional services and expertise (overlapping with skills-based volunteering).
For reporting and impact purposes, in-kind contributions are usually assigned a monetary value, so they can be tracked alongside cash giving and included in total community investment.
Related terms
The newest terms we've added, the words teams managing grants, sponsorship, and CSR come across most often.
Restricted Funds
Restricted funds are donations a donor has earmarked for a specific purpose, project or time period, which the recipient may use only as designated.
Distinguishing restricted from unrestricted funds is fundamental to compliant accounting and reporting, since misusing earmarked money breaches the donor's terms.
Pledge
A pledge is a donor's formal commitment to give a specified amount, sometimes over several years, before the funds are actually transferred.
Tracking pledges against payments received is essential for accurate forecasting and reporting, so an organisation knows both what has been promised and what has arrived.
Gift Acceptance Policy
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.
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