Deed Of Gift Donation Form: Fill & Download for Free

It sounds like you have two questions: 1) how to raise money for a charity through your run and 2) how you go get people to sponsor you.To run for charity:I’d recommend picking a charity that has a personal/community connection or does something you admire.You don’t have to contact a charity to raise money for them, you can choose a charity and setup an online donation form through http://www.justgiving.com/ or http://www.firstgiving.com/Benefits of contacting them are that you may be able to join a team or get more support, even things like being featured in their newsletter or getting a charity running top (John Murphy is right, there may be a minimum commitment, sometimes dependent on races with limited spaces or have transport costs).Fundraising tips:The online donation forms make it easy for people to donate, but also give a status of how you're doing with your fundraisingThe online donations also mean you don't have to deal with any money collecting, it's paid up. Also here in the UK there is a scheme to claim a tax benefit (called Gift Aid) maybe you have something similarLet people know you're doing it, don't be scared to email, update Facebook, put up a flyer at work- you're not forcing people to donateProvide update on social media/email to draw attention to what you're doing and why, update on how training is going or how the fundraising is, I found friends gave me great advice from their running experience, also some friends just needed a reminder at a time when it suited them to donate (cash flow/payday etc.)You can maybe get some attention from a local paper or community, if you're running for a charity, some people might like to sponsor you because they like the charity, even if they don't know youYou might inspire others to join you or do their own fundraisingMy best advice is don't be scared to tell people you're doing it, the money you're raising is for a good cause and people are donating because they want to- you're kind of the connection between other people's good deeds and donations and the good cause.You're doing a good thing, I hope the information helps- and if you let me know when you've set up a sponsorship page, I'll sponsor you. Oh, and if it's a marathon: good shoes, Vaseline and nipple protection!!

You first need to decide which museum you would like to donate the artwork to. You should do research into which museums collect which kinds of art. For example, you wouldn’t offer an Old Master still life to the Museum of Modern Art. You wouldn’t offer a French Impressionist painting to a museum of American art. Make sure that the work you want to donate fits within the collecting mission of the museum.Then, go to the museum’s website and find, if you can, the email address of someone on the collections team. Their title will be something like one of the following: Registrar, Collections Manager, Collections and Exhibitions Coordinator, etc. If they have the word “registrar” or “collections” in their title, they’re a safe bet. If an email address and phone number are both listed, use the email address.If you can at all help it, do not cold call the museum, or even the collections staff. Calling and telling someone you want to donate an artwork is inherently useless, to you and to the staff. How are you going to offer a work of visual art if I can’t see it? If there are no email addresses, call the front desk of the museum and ask for the email address of the person in charge of collections.Then, send an email to that person with all of the information you have about the artwork. The artist’s name, title of the work, date of the work, medium of the work, dimensions, etc. The works. Also explain how you came to own the work. Was it passed down to you, did you buy it, did you find it at a garage sale, etc.? Include as many pictures as you can of the work. Take pictures of the front, back, any important details like the signature, gallery labels, etc. Send those as well.Once you send those to the museum, they will let you know whether they are initially interested. A lot of times they are not interested from the get-go, and will tell you so. They may also give suggestions as to where you might dispose of it - they might be able to suggest another museum that could want it, or they could give you names of galleries and auction houses that could sell it for you.If they are initially interested, the work will either be outright accepted immediately (this usually happens if the work is incredibly important or valuable) or will go up in front of a collections committee. This is usually a volunteer group of art experts who will advise the museum whether they should acquire the piece. They will take into account the collecting mission of the museum, the existing collection, the quality of the offered artwork, and the pros and cons of acquiring it. If the committee accepts the work, then the museum will let you know that they want to acquire it.Then the museum will draw up paperwork for you which indicates that you are donating the work. This will include a deed of gift, which is a legal document transferring ownership. If you would like to claim the gift on your taxes, you will also need the appropriate tax forms. If you are claiming a donation of art valued over $5000, you will also need an official appraisal from a licensed art appraiser.Then, ta-da! You’ve donated an artwork to a museum. Depending on its value, sometimes a museum will then make you a member and invite you to their events.As the other two answers have said, do not expect that your artwork will be permanently on view at the museum. Museums are meant to constantly be changing over the art in their galleries. Unless the work is incredibly important or high value, there’s a chance it will sit in storage for a while. Sometimes museums will have exhibitions of new acquisitions in order to show the public what they’ve recently received.Museums will not, or at least should not, ever promise to have your donated work on view permanently. If you ask for that to be a stipulation in your deed of gift, it is likely the museum will refuse the gift. Donating an artwork to a museum is a vote of confidence in that museum that they will do what is best with that work. If you don’t trust a museum to do that, you should think twice before donating.

The best wedding favor I ever received was witness signed application form for eye donation with address(the best eye hospital in the country) printed envelope and a thank you candle. All guests got one. All we had to do was fill the form and send. The couple wanted to start their marital life by doing good deed. Indeed, they did.