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Our website enables you to choose, review then donate to popular Australian Charities online. Your donation is safe, secure, and private, and helps support the issues and causes you care most about. Donating or direct giving is possibly the most common form of charitable donation in Australia, with over 14.2 million adult Australians making a tax deductible donation in the year 2007. As Australians, we’re a pretty charitable lot. Nearly nine out of 10 adults give to charity, and the average annual donation is more than $400. The median donation is $100 – half of the donors give more than that. Its greatest advantage is that it is simple; the donor has merely to choose a charity, make the donation and receive the receipt, which is vital if the donor wishes to claim a tax deduction. If the organisation to which the money is donated is a Deductible Gift Recipient, the donor will receive a tax deduction. Choosing Charities for Your DonationsHere are some ways of choosing a charity to donate to. There may be a number of motivations here. What are you passionate about? What do you feel most strongly about? What is the problem you feel you would like to fix - or who are the people you want to help? You might also like to think about whether there is a geographic basis to your charities. Do you want to donate to an area which you know well and are fond of, perhaps a community in which you live or grew up? Do you want your donation to go to remote communities, to people in rural Australia, to small or large towns - or to urban areas? |
