**NOTE**- We
do not solicit door-to-door donations in the UK, or in any
other country. We are solely based in the United States. If anyone comes to
your door asking for donations to "Make A Child Smile", it is not legitimate
and has nothing to do with our Organization.
"A Donation is a loan...
and God is the one who will pay you back."
Make a SINGLE donation
Make a Recurring Monthly donation
Donate an eBay Auction
Donations of $$ to a specific child
Donations of goods to MACS or the kids
"In Memory/In Honor" Donations
Your name listed on the Donors page
Help us raise money just by Searching or Shopping via GoodSearch.com
Tax Receipts
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:
To help pay for most medical related bills not covered by
Insurance. This
applies to Hospitals, Clinics, Doctors, Pharmacy and medically necessary
Equipment (wheelchair, c-pap machines, etc..).
For Funeral expenses when a child passed away (services, casket, headstone,
grave marker, urn, etc?)
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
614 E. Hwy 50, #150
Clermont, FL
34711 - U.S.A.
Or donate ONLINE using your PayPal account or a credit/debt card:

Make a Recurring Monthly donation:
This is a Recurring Donation Subscription, meaning that you
will automatically make the same donation every single month.
You can easily cancel it within your PayPal account, or
Contact Us.
Recurring Monthly Donations
ATTENTION: Read paragraph ABOVE before
clicking!!
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

Help us raise money just by Searching or Shopping
via GoodSearch.com:

GoodSearch.com
GoodShop.com

Tax receipts:
If you have donated via PayPal, then make sure you keep the
email confirmation sent by PayPal (or log in to your PayPal account and
click on "History" to locate them and print). That is your receipt
for your tax records!
If you made check donations by mail, and it totaled more than
$250 for the previous calendar year, we will mail a receipt back to
you around January/February.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) doesn't require receipts for 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)".
