Frequently Asked Questions
- How Do You Get Started With Eat So They Can?
- What is Eat So They Can?
- When is Eat So They Can?
- Who Can Participate in Eat So They Can?
- Who Runs Eat So They Can?
- How Do I Win an Expense Paid Trip to Kenya, Peru, Vietnam or Haiti?
- What is Included in the Grand Prize Trip to Peru, Haiti, Kenya or Vietnam?
- How Can I Give Receipts to People Who Donate at My Eat So They Can Event?
- How Do You Send in Your Eat So They Can Donations?
- How Do I Contact You?
- Will I get a tax receipt for my donation?
- You Didn't Answer My Question!
- Sign up as a host at: www.eatsotheycan.org (as soon as you sign up, you will be immediately given your own host page).
- Log-in to your host page using the username and password which you will be emailed. Click Modify My Event so that you can upload your photo and add information about your event.
- Invite your friends and family to your event by sending an email with a link to your host page.
- Organize your event making use of all the great resources you will be sent by the ESTC team such as our DVD, posters, fact sheets, stickers and event ideas.
- Host your event!
Eat So They Can, is a fundraiser that invites people around the world to host a dinner, invite their friends and family, gather donations and send those funds to GVN Foundation’s work on behalf of women and children across Africa, Asia, and South America.
It’s easy, it’s fun and if you raise $500 USD or more you will be entered into a drawing to Win a Free Trip to Africa.
Events will be held all over the world during the weekend of the 16th and 17th of October, 2010.
If you can't do your event that weekend, that is ok! You can have an Eat So They Can Event anytime during the year.
If you would like to be included in the Grand Prize Drawing, please just be sure to hold your event, and send in the funds you have raised, by December 15,2010.
Anyone can participate in Eat So They Can! We welcome any person, from any country/culture/faith or language to join us!
Eat So They Can is a key fundraiser of Global Volunteer Network Foundation (GVN Foundation) and was launched to raise funds to assist GVN Foundation’s projects around the world designed to stop child poverty.
The GVN Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization in the United States, EIN number 20-3087760. GVN Foundation is also in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
There are two ways to win our Grand Prize Trip. To learn more please click here.
To learn more about our Grand Prize Trip please click here.
If you would like to give your donors/guests receipts for their donations please send us an email and we will send you some. To contact us please click here.
There are three ways to donate to Eat So They Can:
By Credit Card
You can use your credit card and make your donation to GVN Foundation by visiting the following link and clicking which cause you would like your donation to go towards:
http://www.eatsotheycan.org/donate
Or, and even better, go to your host's page and click on the donation button on the right. That way you will ensure that your donation is attributed to your host.
SPECIAL NOTE: Donations made by credit card will be processed via PayPal. However, if you choose to make your credit card donation online please note PayPal will take a percentage of your donation.
By Check/Cheque
All checks must be made out to the GVN Foundation and should be sent to:
Global Volunteer Network Foundation
PO Box 294
Littleton, CO 80160
USA
If you are sending your donaation through registered mail, or a courier, and need to deliver your envelope to a physical address, send to:
Global Volunteer Network Foundation
14 Southridge Way
Littleton CO 80120
USA
Important for all hosts - Please make sure to put 'Eat So They Can' in the memo section of all checks so that we know to apply funds accordingly. If one of your guests would like to make a payment directly to us by check, please instruct them to also write your name in the memo section, so we may credit their donation to your event.
By Wire
You can wire your funds to GVN Foundation at the following account:
The Global Volunteer Network Foundation
14 Southridge Way
Littleton, CO 80120
USA
Chase Bank
CO1-9720
5734 S. Prince St.
Littleton, CO 80120
USA
Routing Number: 102001017
Account Number: 633641046
Swift Code: CHASUS33
The GVN Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization in the United States. This means that all US donors will receive an official tax receipt for their donation. Donors from all other countries will receive a thank you receipt and will need to check the rules and regulations of their country to find out whether this can be used for tax purposes.
Bummer! We are sorry if this list didn't answer your question. To contact us for more information please click here.
We invite you to host your own party, invite your friends, and raise money to support our work with women and children around the world.
Current Amount: $19,115.34
Target: $500,000
Eat So They Can is a fundraiser for the GVN Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization in the United States established in 2005.
GVN Foundation is proud to be in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
