Eligibility: Participation in Giving Day for Apes is limited to organizations that care for apes in a sanctuary/rescue center setting and that (a) are legal non-profit entities within the United States and have tax-exempt status as a public charity under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; or (b) have an approved fiscal sponsor with such status.
Donations: Only donations made online through the Giving Day for Apes website will be counted towards leaderboard totals and other prizes. A participating organization may not make a donation to its own fundraising page to help secure a prize. Any individual, including personnel employed by or affiliated with a participating organization, may donate. Only the authorized credit card holder may donate on the Giving Day for Apes website. A third party may not use the donor’s card information to make donations on behalf of the donor, and participating organizations may not encourage an individual to make donations using multiple email names or email addresses in order to increase unique donor total.
Donations received by participants either offline or through other online platforms may not be "passed through" to the participant's fundraising page on the Giving Day for Apes website, by having anyone on behalf of the participant make an online donation to the Mightycause Giving Day for Apes website in the amount of the offline donation received. Such donations may be added as "offline donations" to the participant's fundraising total for the event, but in the spirit of the prize competition will not be added to leaderboard totals.
Mightycause and Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries have the right to verify all donations in compliance with these rules.
Disqualification: Mightycause and Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries reserve the right to disqualify any participant from further participation in this Giving Day for Apes and future events if such participant engages in misconduct that affects the integrity of Giving Day for Apes or if such participant engages in any inappropriate or unacceptable behavior in connection with Giving Day for Apes.
Peer to Peer Fundraisers: Any participant may seek individual Peer to Peer fundraisers to raise funds on their behalf, and any online donations made to those fundraising pages on the Mightycause Giving Day for Apes website will be included in the participant's leaderboard total. Fundraising pages eligible to compete on the Peer to Peer leaderboard shall include those hosted by individuals or groups of individuals (such as a group of caregiver staff members, a group of the board of directors/trustees, etc.).
Use of the "Giving Day for Apes" Name and Logo: "Giving Day for Apes" is an event hosted by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries and sponsored by the organizations identified on the Giving Day for Apes website. Participants will not use the "Giving Day for Apes" name and/or logo for other online fundraising events.
No Goods and Services in Exchange for Donations to Charitable Causes: Federal law prohibits charities from promising or providing goods and services (e.g., tickets to events or raffles) in exchange for making a donation. Participants may only accept pure contributions and not part gift and part sale transactions. Small tokens of gratitude, such as keychains, stickers, buttons, and so on, may be offered to donors as long as they are not offered in exchange for donations, and do not meet the conditions for a raffle or sale. Such items must be of insubstantial value, as defined by IRS Rev. Proc. 90-12, Section 2, Paragraph 1 (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/rp_1990-12.pdf).