How to subscribe to the Online Donation Portal (OLDP)?

1. The Online Donation Portal, accessible at www.donation.org.sg and www.ecitizen.gov.sg, was launched on 23 Oct 2002. It is a one-stop facility for members of the public to find out more about IPCs (Institutions of Public Character) and to donate to these IPCs online, whether through credit card or allotted Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS). More e-payment methods for making donations will be introduced later. For more information on the portal, please see attached Information Note on the OLDP. (OLDP/INF/04).
   
2. All Institutions of Public Character (IPCs) OR their Central Fund Administrators (CFAs) can subscribe to the OLDP to receive donations.
   
3. By paying an annual subscription of $200, IPCs can make use of the donation portal to raise funds online. The administrative cost of raising funds online through the portal are about half of that for fund-raising activities offline. There is also increased visibility from the aggregation of charities within the same portal.
   
4. Applications to join the portal should be made in the attached subscription form (OLDP/SF/04) & sent to the Portal Administrator at NCSS_OLDP@ncss.gov.sg
   
5. The annual subscription fee for the period 1 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2008 is $200.
   
6. The subscribing Charity / Organisation would also need to sign an Agreement with NCSS, the portal's administrator.
   
7. A person from the subscribing charity will be authorised to gain access to the OLDP in order to retrieve reports generated by the system, regarding the amount & mode of donation & donors' particulars.
   
8. Reports will be made available to subscribing IPCs to reconcile bank statements with the credit card and the ERS donations.
   
9. Please note that all donations via the portal would automatically qualify for tax deduction. The Auto Inclusion Scheme initiated by IRAS is between IRAS and the individual IPCs. The OLDP system will not have this linkage with IRAS. Instead, the OLDP will ask donors who require tax deductible receipts to provide the necessary information (eg. NRIC No., mailing address, etc). The given information can then be extracted by the IPC for onward transmission to IRAS under the auto inclusion scheme.