Fundraising Charter
1. Rationale
The Peter Hewitt Care for Africa Inc (CFA) Fundraising Charter requires that CfA will have processes and procedures in place to ensure that:
- Decisions to accept or reject donations support the purpose of the organisation.
- Legislative requirements for fundraising are met.
- The privacy of Donors, consistent with the Privacy Act, are met.
- Free, prior and informed consent is obtained for all images and stories.
2. All fundraising materials will be truthful and:
- Include the organisation’s identity including name, address, ABN and purpose.
- Accurately represent the context, situation, proposed solutions and intended meaning of information provided by affected people
- Clearly state if there is a specific purpose of each donation
- Avoid material omissions, exaggerations, misleading visual portrayals and overstating the need or what the donor’s response may achieve.
3. If outsourcing fundraising activities, CfA will ensure that:
- Contracts are in place which meet all relevant legislative and regulatory requirements.
- Specific expectations, responsibilities and obligations of each party are clear and in writing.
- CfA are identified as the beneficiaries of the funds.
- Contractors are clearly identified.
4. Images and messages used for fundraising will not:
- Be untruthful, exaggerated or misleading (e.g. not doctored, created as fiction or misrepresenting the country, etc.).
- Be used if they may endanger the people they are portraying.
- Be used without the free, prior and informed consent of the person/s portrayed, including children, their parents or guardians.
- Present people in a dehumanised manner.
- Infringe child protection policies and in particular show children in a naked and/or sexualised manner.
- Feature dead bodies or dying people.
CFA-P10.V1 Fundraising Charter – Effective Date: 26 April 2020 Document Approved By: Board of Management.
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