Becoming One Of The Wisdom Trust's Supported Organisations
- Information, Terms & Conditions.

As an official or officer responsible for fundraising for a charity, good cause, local community project or for any other not-for-profit organisation, you probably spend a lot of time trying to find new innovative ways to raise money for your funds. The Wisdom Trust, through our unique fundraising program, can help you raise potentially quite large amounts of extra money, with little or no effort on your part.

The Wisdom Trust raises money for its own funds in a number of ways, as any charity does. For example, we apply for a range of grants and bursaries from various grant-making trusts and foundations, we organise fundraising events and, of course, we are always happy to receive donations. But we also operate our own online shopping mall, which generates money for our fund, when any of our members, or other website visitors, buy something from one of our online partners or even when they shop online or participate in an online auction, on eBay for example.

A large proportion of our income, from all sources, is set aside to be used in the expansion and enhancement our own education programs about poverty, the environment and world health. This is to help fulfill our own charitable objective to create a wider awareness about these issues.

But one half of all our income is set aside in a special fund (The Wisdom Trust donations fund) for donations to other charities and not-for-profit organisations. All our supported charities are elegible for a donation from our donations fund each quarter, but the actualy amount set aside for each individual organisation is decided through a special online poll of all our members over each three month donations period.

Every member - the friends of The Wisdom Trust - has the right to vote once each day for the two organisations they'd most like us to make donations to. Some members, by accumulating Fundraising Credits (FC's) through their participation in our online education programs, can earn the right to extra votes each day and to gain a larger influence with reagrd to which organisations receive donations, and how much.

At the end of each three month period, the money is divided up in direct proportion to each organisation's share of the vote. So a charity with 10% of the vote get 10% of our donations fund that quarter.

So all you need to do is to get your own charity, good cause or other non-profit organisation registered, free-of-charge, on The Wisdom Trust website, then encourage people to vote for you. Better still, get your own staff and supporters (and as many of their friends and family) registered as friends of the Wisdom Trust so they can vote for you. Then just sit back and wait to receieve your guaranteed donation from our fund every three months.

The amounts involved are not huge, individually, but collectively they could up to a very substantial sum. And the size of our available donations fund each quarter is growing all the time.

For example if 1% of the vote now was worth less than £100 from the donations fund, by the end of the year, that same 1% could be worth over £1,000.

And each visit to The Wisdom Trust website by any of your members or supporters, as long as they use our education programs to earn FC's, could generate a few extra pence for for your fund every time, for every one of your own staff, supporters.

But if, on any visit, they use the Wisdom Trust Shopping Mall to buy anything, your organisation's Wisdom 'charity fund' will get a further amount automatically, through the cashback scheme.

Yes, all these amount, as we said, are very small, but with many people using the facilities every day, the total will grow to something more worthwhile.

But the really interesting aspect of The Wisdom Trust fund allocation program is that because we can track the lines of introduction back from every single member who join us, should any of your own members, staff or supporters introduce any of their friends, family or colleagues to The Wisdom Trust, your own fund will benefit whenever those new friends and family members visit The Wisdom Trust website too. The same goes for those friends' friends, and their friends and so on, down through a minimum of eight generations of friends, family and colleagues.

In this way, any charity or good cause, anywhere in the world, could, with very little effort, accumulate a fundraising network of hundreds or thousands of people who regularly use the online educational tools and website services available through the The Wisdom Trust website, each of them maybe raising money for their own particular favourite charities and good causes, but all bringing benefit to the charity or good cause at the top of that particular fundraising network.

So, as you can see, the potential for your own fundraising efforts is enormous. To get started, either go straight ahead and register your charity or good cause, (it's free-of-charge and you'll just need an email address to register) then promote the idea to your members and supporters. Or, if you have any questions (or even if you'd like some help to set up a fundraising program for your charity or good cause), you can email us at enquiries@wisdom4all.co.uk .

We'll be delighted to help you set up your program and we could even organise a multimedia presentation to a meeting of your members and supporters, to show them how to get started.

If you were introduced to Wisdom For All by another charity or good cause, or even by an individual, do remember to put their appropriate email address as your sponsor, when you register.

And once you're registered, drop us a brief email anyway, so we can enter you in our list of registered charities and good causes.

To be listed on The Wisdom Trust website as one of our supported organisations, an organisation should be either a registered charity or a local good cause, or any other organisation, whose business model is clearly not-for-profit. That organisation can be based in the UK or in any other part of the world.

An officer or representative of that organisation should complete the two online forms on The Wisdom Trust website - one to create a login profile (email address and password) and a second to submit the organisation's details (organisation name, charity number - if applicable, contact details, website address, and a brief outline of the organisation's activities - two or three paragraphs).

Once registered, The Wisdom Trust will list an organisation alongside all the other charities and good causes on our list so far, either in alphabetical order or in the order of their share of the members' vote so far this quarter. If a website address was submitted on registration, the organisation's name in each listing will be a link to their website.

The Wisdom Trust makes no charge for registration. Neither will it charge any fees of any kind, at any time, to any of the listed organisations, nor will any sum be deducted from any amounts raised for an organisation.

An organisation will be able to email a unique link to its own staff and supporters to allow them the opportunity to register, free of charge, as friends of The Wisdom Trust, in order for those staff and supporters to vote online for that organisation, and shop online through The Wisdom Trust shopping mall, for the benefit of that organisation.

The Wisdom Trust sets aside 50% of all its income in The Wisdom Trust donations fund, to be donated to all our listed organisations, based on their share of the quarterly members' vote.

The Wisdom Trust also sets aside 20% of its income in The Wisdom Trust members fund, to be used to fund our special education incentive program, through which members are awarded Fundraising Credits (FC's) when they use our online education programs.

Fundraising Credits add value to the fund set aside for those organisations supported by the members to whom they're awarded. Members can also be awarded Fundraising Credits when they choose to help our fundraising efforts by shopping online through The Wisdom Trust shopping mall, and when they introduce their friends, family and colleagues, and other organisations.

The Wisdom Trust maintains up-to-date records of all activity through our website and of all sums allocated to any of our listed organisations. This information, and the current state of the members' quarterly vote, is available for inspection at any time through The Wisdom Trust website.

Registration is very simple, and will take no more than a few minutes to complete. If you opened this page from the registration form, simple close this window and return to the previous page. If not, then just click on the link below to start the registration process.

Click here to get your charity registered today.

The Wisdom Trust team will review your details, once submitted, and assuming there are no queries, your organisation will be added to our list within 24 hours.

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