Pick Click Give - a Wonderful Way to Contribute to Alaska's Non Profits

For those who live in Alaska, it has been virtually impossible to ignore the buzz that has built around our newest philanthropy opportunity over the past two years - Pick.Click.Give.  While this opportunity is not available outside Alaska, this is still an inspiring story of how to promote greater support for the non profit sector...

What Is Pick. Click.Give?

In May 2008, the Alaska Legislature passed legislation that sets up the Permanent Fund Dividend Charitable Contributions Program, or Pick.Click.Give. (sometimes known as PCG).  The law allows Alaskans filing for their Permanent Fund Dividend online to donate all or part of their dividend to enrolled non profit organizations, community foundations and educational organizations. See http://www.pickclickgive.org/ for full details of the program.  The genesis and current status of the Permanent Fund is described at http://www.apfc.org/home/Content/aboutFund/aboutPermFund.cfm.


How Does PCG Work?
The program allows Alaskans to pick recipients from the list of approved organizations as they enrol online for their PFD each year and click to define which organizations they will give some portion of their PFD to.  Donations begin at $25 and can be flexibly allocated to multiple charities.  Thanks to the generous support of the Rasmuson Foundation, no administrative overhead is deducted - the full amount of each donation is sent to the designated charity!  Pretty simple, but incredibly powerful - last year the program raised nearly $1million for Alaskan non profits; the 2011 goal is $1.5million.

 

Our Goal for the 2011 PCG Program

We have been actively promoting this oportunity to Alaskans since January - see http://www.alaskasealife.org/New/documents/PCG%20at%20ASLC.pdf.

Our goal for PCG this year is $10,000.  This is equal to just 400 $25 donations or 100 $100 donations...

 

Thank You

Thank you to each of you who help spread the word about this wonderful program and a special thank you to those of you who are considering making a PCG donation to the Alaska SeaLife Center this year!