In Europe we partner with Fonds de Dotation IG (FDD-IG), a French endowment finds. This Fund helps French donors to support outstanding international activities adopted by the French charity.
As per the Pershe ruling, a donation in one EU state is recognized as tax-deductible in all 27 EU countries.
Once approved, your donors will donate to FDD-IG, a French charity who issues them a tax-deductible CERFA receipt for the full amount of the donation. FDD-IG will then donate the funds to your organization, for a specific project that you will conduct for FDD-IG.
Please note that you can only become eligible to work with Fonds de Dotation IG if you are actively using America Gives as your US fiscal sponsor (or if you have your own 501c3 organization, using GivingTech as your online payment platform).
Eligible areas of activity
The project that you operate on behalf of FDD-IG must be in one of the following areas.
Emergency operations to deal with disasters of an unforeseeable and occasional nature, whatever their cause. These may include: natural disasters (such as drought, floods, etc.); technological disasters with serious consequences for the population (such as explosions in an industrial establishment, malfunction of a nuclear power plant, etc.); acts of war; famines.
Meeting the essential needs of populations in distress or in poverty and to contribute to their social integration. This would include:
Meeting the health needs of populations in distress;
The provision of basic care, scientific research and action programs to combat pandemics and diseases,
The provision of aid to improve the conditions of housing;
The provision of the basic elements of education essential to social integration, such as activities in favor of the protection and development of children, literacy, schooling, as well as actions for the promotion of integration of handicapped people;
The promotion and protection of the rights of minorities, human rights, the rights of refugees, and women's rights;
Development actions such as expenditure on professional training, establishment of local university training, supply of animals, tools or aid for their acquisition, etc.
Activities that preserve and protect the environment against international phenomena that threaten its balance:
Actions taken to combat global warming (on a wide scale)
Actions relating to the fight against deforestation and desertification;
Actions tending to the conservation and preservation of biodiversity, whether animal or vegetal;
Emergency actions undertaken with a view to mitigating the consequences of ecological disasters (oil spills, industrial pollution, nuclear disaster).