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Gifts and Pledges Online

• Secure server
• Online pledging (no secure server, no credit cards)
• Giving through an intermediary: Guidestar Database of Charitable Organizations and Helping.org, a nonprofit joint venture of the AOL and Benton Foundations, the Red Cross, and others, to make it possible to give online to any organization registered with the IRS as a nonprofit organization. An promising intermediate step for the small nonprofit.
• (See helping.org in action for the Richard III Society. I won't mind if you make a gift...)
• Fee-based third-party organizations -- www.remit.net, charityweb.net, givingcapital.com

Shop2give: Charity Malls

• One of the better-known: Greater Good
• An omnibus round-up site: Allison Schwein's Inhervisions
• Caveats: their logos can junk up your site, they can move your viewers off-mission, and they may cheapen your "brand"