[pct-l] Hiking for charity

[joph at piedmontbsa.org (JoPH)]

Junaid

I am on the digest only, so you may have already got a response to this.

How about raising money for the PCTA? You could raise awareness of the trail
and perhaps contribute significantly to its upkeep.

Only contributions made to a nonprofit (501 c 3) are tax deductible so you
would need to contact the PCTA to see if they are interested in having you
do this, if so, I?m sure they would advise you as to how to make it work. Or
if you chose another charity the same applies.

Chips (of Fish and)
A nonprofit person

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Aloha everyone,

I posted this on the pct2006 yahoo group, hope all of
you can help as well.

Someone said something sometime about hiking for a
charity. I have been thinking about this and I would
like to give it a try. I don't have any real idea how
to go about setting it up.

One idea I had was to get people/companies to donate
some amount of money per mile of trail I actually
complete and perhaps a larger amount per mile assuming
I complete the whole thing ($1/mi if I finish or $
0.50/mi if I don't). But do I need to have a special
bank account set up (I kind of want to do a 3 way
split)? What's the best way to get people to
donate/pledge?

If any one has hiked for a charity before or will be
this year, your suggestions would be most welcome.

If this turns out to be relatively straight forward,
we may all be able to raise
small/modest/significant/large amounts of money for
our favorite charities at the same time.

It could become the year of the Charity Cases.

-------junaid #41PCT2006