While donations are appreciated, as a relatively new Foundation, our tax exempt status is not yet fully established in all the states of the USA, so you will not be able to claim a tax deduction as yet if you make a donation in cash or in kind.  We have been registered in Oregon since 2011, so we can take donations from Oregon residents, and from those in a few states where there are no formal registrations required (Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming).  We have applied for registration for 2012 in Arizona, California, New Jersey and New York, and for exemptions in several other states, so we will update our status as these applications are processed.   An application for 501(c)(3) status is pending with the IRS and we have been informed that the review and decision may take another year.

 

If you are a resident of one of the 13 states listed above, or are a resident of a country or a business outside the USA, there are three ways for you to make a donation:

 

1) Monetary donation via PayPal (using a bank account, debit card or credit card)

Log into http://www.paypal.com/ and send your donation to: postharvest@postharvest.org

PayPal will send you a receipt and an officer of The Postharvest Education Foundation will acknowledge your donation via an email message.

 

2) Monetary donation via mail (check or money order)

Make your check out to: The Postharvest Education Foundation

Please include your mailing address so we can send you a printed receipt.

Mail your donation to:

 

 

3) In-kind donations

Office supplies: printer paper, blank CDs or DVDs, injet printer cartridges (HP 54 or HP 57), bubble mailing envelopes (sizes 0 or 00), blank 1 GB flash drives.  These are the kind of things we use to send free training materials and provide training CDs and postharvest tools at no cost to our global participants who are learning how to apply improved postharvest technologies.  

 

Postharvest tools and demonstration supplies: digital temperature probes, refractometers, pH strips, sample packages, postharvest treatments such as ethylene absorbing sachets, vented plastic bags, plastic crates, insulated carriers, etc.  Please send us an email to let us know what you have to donate and we can find it a new home with one of our many postharvest trainees.

 

If you decide to clean out your library, please send us any materials that we can pass along to our trainees to help them with their work as postharvest trainers, teachers, extension workers, researchers, etc.  Our Directors make dozens of trips each year to do postharvest consulting work, meet with our partners and trainees, and attend conferences and workshops in developing countries.  Dr. Lisa packs an extra suitcase every time she travels, and gives away all the contents to young people in the postharvest sector before she returns to the USA.