Acceptance of any
contribution, gift or grant is at the discretion of the Eternal
Footprints Missions. The Eternal Footprints Missions will not accept
any gift unless it can be used or expended consistently with the
purpose and mission of the Eternal Footprints Missions.
No irrevocable gift,
whether outright or life-income in character, will be accepted if
under any reasonable set of circumstances the gift would jeopardize
the donor’s financial security.
The Eternal Footprints
Missions will refrain from providing advice about the tax or other
treatment of gifts and will encourage donors to seek guidance from
their own professional advisers to assist them in the process of
making their donation.
The Eternal Footprints
Missions will accept donations of cash or publicly traded
securities. Gifts of in-kind services will be accepted at the
discretion of the Eternal Footprints Missions.
Certain other gifts,
real property, personal property, in-kind gifts, non-liquid
securities, and contributions whose sources are not transparent or
whose use is restricted in some manner, must be reviewed prior to
acceptance due to the special obligations raised or liabilities they
may pose for Eternal Footprints Missions.
The Eternal Footprints
Missions will provide acknowledgments to donors meeting tax
requirements for property received by the charity as a gift.
However, except for gifts of cash and publicly traded securities, no
value shall be ascribed to any receipt or other form of
substantiation of a gift received by Eternal Footprints Missions.
The Eternal Footprints
Missions will respect the intent of the donor relating to gifts for
restricted purposes and those relating to the desire to remain
anonymous. With respect to anonymous gifts, the Eternal Footprints
Missions will restrict information about the donor to only those
staff members with a need to know.
The Eternal Footprints
Missions will not compensate, whether through commissions, finders’
fees, or other means, any third party for directing a gift or a
donor to the Eternal Footprints Missions.
