It may take up to 30 days for your donation to be processed

What we do with your precious donation:

The Make A Child Smile Organization offers limited financial assistance and support to selected MACS featured children (when needed) in the following way:

Your donation also helps with our Organization's Administrative costs so we can keep our doors (and hearts) open.



Make a SINGLE donation: You may send your monetary donation to us by MAIL using check, money order or cashier's check. No cash please.

Checks should be made payable to:
"Make A Child Smile Organization"

Make A Child Smile Organization
Ref: Donation
11110 W. Oakland Park Blvd, #292
Sunrise, FL
33351 - U.S.A.

Or donate ONLINE using PayPal:
(you DO NOT need to have a PayPal account, nor create one)

Make a Recurring Monthly donation: This is a PayPal Recurring Donation Subscription. Easy to subscribe and you can cancel anytime within your PayPal account! If you wish to make a SINGLE donation, click the DONATE button above.
 

Once A Month Donations Charged to your PayPal Account once a month ATTENTION: Read paragraph ABOVE!!
US $5	US $10
US $20	US $50

To make recurring donations of more than $50, please Contact Us
 

Donation of eBay Auction: Donate anywhere from 10% to 100% of your eBay Auction to the Make A Child Smile Organization.

Visit Mission Fish to learn HOW to donate your Auction to MACS.

Mission Fish is affiliated to eBay Giving Works.

Excerpt from Mission Fish's User Agreement:
"You agree not to include any false, misleading, defamatory, obscene or illegal statements or other content in any auction listing submitted through the Online Giving Tools, not to conduct any illegal sale for which the listing is submitted through the Online Giving Tools, and not to sell defamatory, obscene or illegal materials listed through the Online Giving Tools."

Click HERE for current Auctions benefiting MACS

Donation of $$ to a specific child:
Unfortunately we do not accept donations that need to be forwarded to a specific child. If you wish to send money to a specific MACS kid, please send it directly to the child's mailbox address.

Our financial aid rules are extremely strict. Donations made to the MACS Organization in general, are dispersed according to the true need of a family for financial aid. All funds leaving MACS need to be documented with the reason why it's being dispersed. We need to know that the money is going towards something related to the child's illness (i.e. medical equipment, doctor, clinic, hospital, pharmacy, etc..). Funds are NEVER sent directly to the family, only to the establishment where a bill needs to be paid off.

This is the reason why we cannot forward your donation to a family. We need proof that the money will be used for something related to the child's medical condition or funeral expenses

Donation of goods to MACS or the kids (toys, clothes, scrapbooking supplies, electronics, HAIR, etc...):
Unfortunately we do not accept donations of goods due to a lack of storage space and personnel to sort and distribute them.

If you wish to send something to a MACS child, please mail it directly to the featured child's mailing address.

You may also hold an eBay Auction by joining Mission Fish and sell your goods to benefit the Make A Child Smile Organization.

As for donating HAIR, you need to contact specific Organizations that will accept hair donations, such as www.locksoflove.org and www.wigsforkids.org.

"In Memory/In Honor" donations:
If you wish to make a donation "In Memory/In Honor" of someone, after you donate via PayPal, please go to the Contact Us page and send us a note with your name, the name of the person you donated "In Memory/In Honor" of, and an address where we can mail a postcard to (usually the family of the deceased/honored).

Your name listed on the Donors page:
Your name will be listed on our Donors page once we process your donation. If you'd rather not have your name listed or would like it removed, please Contact Us.

It may take up to 30 days for your donation to be processed

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Tax receipts: We at MACS, mail/email out donation receipts (for your tax records) around January/February of each year, only to those who have donated a total of OVER $250 during the previous calendar year.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) doesn't require receipts for cash donations under $250.

Click HERE to read an article on eHow, about Charitable Contributions Scroll down to "Cash Donations (including contributions paid by cash, check, credit card or payroll deduction)".

If you donated via PayPal, then make sure to keep the email confirmations that PayPal sends to you after you donated, or log in to your PayPal account and click on "History" to locate them and print.