Donation Policy

All donations are gifts made voluntarily to Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity, with no conditions. Donors receive a tax receipt from Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation and no refunds are offered. Donors who request refunds may not be eligible for tax deductions on their refunded donations.

Gift Acceptance Policy

Your generous contribution to Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation supports year-round programs and initiatives that allow us to fulfill our mission. As good stewards of your donations, we follow clear guidelines in processing your gifts.

Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation solicits and accepts gifts that are consistent with its mission and support its core programs, as well as special projects.

Donations will generally be accepted from individuals, partnerships, corporations, foundations, or other entities, without limitations.

In the course of its regular fundraising activities, Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation will accept donations of money, real property, personal property, stock, life insurance beneficiary designations, other gifts such as charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts and gift-in-kind services.

Certain types of gifts must be reviewed and are subject to approval prior to acceptance due to liabilities they may pose for Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation.

Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation seeks to protect its donors so we have in place various policies, guidelines, rules, and restrictions to prevent unlawful activity regarding donor information, donations, and refunds.

Donor Rights

Philanthropy is for the common good and necessary for quality of life. To facilitate philanthropy and earn the general public’s respect and trust so that donors and prospective donors have full confidence in Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation, we provide these rights to all donors:

To be informed of the organization’s mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.

To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization’s governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.

To have access to the organization’s most recent financial statements and IRS Form 990.

To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.

To receive appropriate acknowledgment and recognition.

To be assured that information about their donations is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.

To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.

To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.

To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists.

To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.

Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to Privacy

Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation values your privacy. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. Any third-party sites and services have their own privacy policies.

Personal Information We Collect

On some areas of our site, you are prompted to provide us with personal information when you, for example, make a donation, apply for scholarships, register to receive newsletters, register for events, apply to be a volunteer, or fill out a petition. Also, some areas of our site require personal information before access is granted. The types of personal information collected at these pages vary, but may include the following kinds of general information:

Name

Address

Email address

Phone number

Credit/Debit Card Information

(etc.)

We may from time to time give users the opportunity to participate in surveys to provide feedback on aspects of our organization. These surveys are always optional, and data collected in them will only be used to provide more personalized content, as well as to better understand how people respond to our efforts and how those efforts might be improved.

The Way We Use Personal Information

We use the information you provide about yourself regarding scholarships, newsletters or donations.

We use email addresses to fulfill your requests for newsletter subscriptions and to answer the email we receive.

We also use email addresses and mailing addresses to send updates about various foundation activities. To exclude yourself from any of these mailings, electronic or postal, please contact us. (You may also opt out of electronic mailings by clicking the unsubscribe link included in each mailing.)

Cookies and Other Automatic Information

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Web site. For example, we analyze how many people visit each area of the site, how long they stay, the type of browsers that are being used, certain demographic and affinity information, how many people click on various promotions. This information is collected primarily through Google Analytics. If you do not wish for this information to be captured, please sign out of all Google accounts prior to visiting the website. You can also opt-out of all Google Analytics features, for all sites, via their opt-out tool.

Our email newsletter software tracks people subscribing or unsubscribing from each email newsletter, who opens email messages we send (if your computer supports such capabilities), and who clicks on which links in the email. In general, we use this information only in aggregate to analyze the success of email campaigns. However, we may at times target email newsletters based on this activity.

Like many sites, we use “cookies” to help analyze our Web site traffic. Cookies are small identifying tags that we transfer to your computer through your Web browser. They do not provide us with any personal information about you. We use them to track how many times people visit our sites – whether most people come once / week, once / month, or are first-time visitors. We analyze this data in aggregate, not at an individual level. If you choose not to accept cookies, it will not affect your experience at our site.

Agents

We may from time to time engage companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include sending email newsletters, shipping products, maintaining databases, sending mail, and consulting. These third parties use your information only to fulfill the tasks we have hired them to perform.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation will never sell or trade personal information provided by donors with third party organizations. This applies to both online and offline donations, as well as all donation types and methods.

Content as Endorsement

All media and content published online or in print are for educational and informational purposes and do not constitute an endorsement from Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation.

Data Appends

From time to time we acquire details about people who are in our database from third parties, such as NCOA/PostalPro, to enhance the data we already have.

Our Commitment to Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation uses Internet Encryption Software, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Protocol when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information. Any information you enter is encrypted at your browser, sent over the public Internet in encrypted form, and then de-encrypted at our server. Once we receive your credit card information, it is accessible only to a small number of trusted Bluegrass Island Charitable Foundation bank and merchant services staff that have been specially trained in processing this information.

Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is extremely important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we know are under 13, and no part of our website is designed to attract anyone under 13.