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Thank you for supporting Oklahoma Family Policy Council's family-strengthening
work across Oklahoma. Whether your gift is large or small, OFPC gratefully appreciates your donation.
  
Making a charitable, tax-deductible gift is easy. We invite you to:
 
Many
people appreciate the convenience of contributing to OFPC monthly and automatically,
direct from their checking or savings account electronically, via Electronic Funds
Transfer/Automated Clearinghouse. There is no charge to you to give this way, and the service can be changed
or stopped at any time by a simple phone call to OFPC.
You
choose a regular amount to give, and inform OFPC of this
amount. Also, tell
us whether you want your gift transferred to OFPC monthly on the
7th or 22nd. We do all the rest.
- To begin, simply
click
on the following link to download OFPC's Electronic Funds Transfer
Form in PDF format. Return the completed form and your
voided check to OFPC. It's that easy!
To request the EFT Form,
please click
here: Electronic
Funds Transfer Form
Note:
Online viewing requires Abode
Acrobat Reader, which is available free by clicking on the
following link:
2. Donate to OFPC by Writing a Check:
Mail your personal or company check, made
payable to OFPC, to the following address:
Oklahoma
Family Policy Council
Attn: Internet Donations
3908 N. Peniel Avenue, Suite 100
Bethany, OK 73008-3458
(NOTE:
Donations made by check allow OFPC
to realize the maximum benefit of your generosity. No credit card
transaction fees apply (usually 2% to 4% of the gift), so more money is put to work strengthening
Oklahoma's families! This is a factor many OFPC donors like to consider
in their charitable giving.)
Many people today appreciate the convenience of giving by credit card.
If you prefer to give to OFPC in this way, may we suggest two
easy options:
Donate to OFPC by Credit Card via Network for Good:
Network for Good, a nonprofit organization, invites donors
to make credit card donations to OFPC free-of-charge on their
secure server. Remarkably, Network for Good does not charge
donors or charities for this valuable service.
Please Consider Paying the Credit Card Transaction Fees:
Donors are invited to also make an extra contribution, if they
wish, to pay the credit card transaction fees (usually 2% to 4% of the total donation), which are assessed by the credit card
companies (this allows OFPC to receive 100 percent of a donor's
intended contribution).
If
you wish to give now to OFPC via credit card on a secure server through
the Network for Good, please click here or on the picture link below:
4. Host
a Social Event to Benefit OFPC:
  
Many of your friends and neighbors would enjoy learning about the Oklahoma Family Policy
Council, our statewide work, and OFPC's strategic association with Focus
on the Family, in a social setting.
We invite you to gather a group together
one evening for an informational dessert/coffee event in your home. Alternatively, a breakfast or lunch event at a restaurant,
office, private club, church, or other location can be another workable possibility.
OFPC Executive Director Michael Jestes—joined by members of
OFPC's Board of Directors and staff—will present a short, informative
program for your guests.
There's no pressure for your guests to give (only the opportunity) and many new friends are made during an enjoyable,
informative time. It's simply the best way to let your friends and associates know about
Oklahoma Family Policy Council's work across the
Sooner State.
To begin a conversation about scheduling such an event, please call OFPC Executive
Director Michael Jestes at (405) 787-7744 or e-mail: info@okfamilypc.org. Mike will work
with you to find a mutually convenient time and place and provide help, if you wish, with inviting your guests. Thank you for your leadership
and generous hospitality, to benefit OFPC's ongoing work statewide in so many areas of importance.
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Learn About OFPC's Finances:
How OFPC Is Funded:
You may be interested to know that, although Oklahoma Family Policy
Council is closely associated with Dr. James C. Dobson's Focus
on the Family, OFPC receives no direct funding from Focus on
the Family—or from any other group.
Instead—as
is the case with most nonprofit organizations—individuals,
families, businesses, associations, and foundations fund our work through
annual or monthly tax-deductible gifts as allowed by law.
We
invite you to join with other concerned citizens to support this important
work in Oklahoma on behalf of the traditional family and conservative, Judeo-Christian
values. Thank you for your consideration.
Oklahoma
Family Policy Council & the IRS:
The Internal Revenue Service officially recognizes Oklahoma Family
Policy Council as a Section 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization—a
public charity. The Internal Revenue Code permits you to fully deduct
the amount of contributions you send to OFPC, less the fair market
value of any goods or services we provide to you in exchange for your
gift. If no goods or services are provided to you by OFPC, then your
gift is 100 percent tax-deductible.
Donor
Research:
More information about the Oklahoma Family Policy Council—financial
and other information helpful to current and prospective donors—can
be found at GuideStar, a Web-site which contains a database
of more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations.
The
GuideStar Web-site is produced by Philanthropic Research,
Inc., a 501 (c)(3) public charity founded in 1994. GuideStar's mission
is to revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice with information.
To visit GuideStar, click on the following link:
We also invite you to visit directly with members of OFPC's Board
of Directors, OFPC Executive Director Michael Jestes, or other OFPC
staff to learn more about OFPC and our mission. We will be pleased
to meet with you and/or to assist you in performing your due-diligence
research in any way possible. Again, we thank you for your consideration
of our important family-strengthening work.
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Record-Keeping
Information:
 
Although it is OFPC's practice to thank donors personally or via private
correspondence for their charitable gifts, it is not our
policy to send an official receipt for every small or monthly contribution.
We do, however, want all our supporters
to be informed about their giving history to OFPC. Therefore, every
January or February, OFPC mails to all donors a cumulative charitable contributions
receipt for tax purposes, acknowledging the total amount of giving
to OFPC in the previous year.
As
legally required by the IRS, all gifts given at any one-time
that total $250 or more are acknowledged by OFPC contemporaneously
by business letter following OFPC's receipt of your contribution.
Our receipt letter provides you with the amount of your gift and the
fair market value of any goods or services we provide to you in exchange
for your donation, if any.
The
OFPC Board and Staff deeply thank you for supporting the work of your
Oklahoma Family Policy Council.
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