Donate

We rely on donations and we appreciate every single donation that comes our way. Thank you for considering us!

We know that you are inundated with donation requests and that like many people, you are constantly searching for the best place to donate your valued resources. Our committment at One Sky is to ensure that your donations are used efficiently and when possible they are leveraged.

Currently we are orienting our fundraising to Nigeria for our Leading From Within project and we have teamed up with Athletes For Africa to do this.

In this project 30 emerging Nigerian leaders, who are working with local organizations towards the country's sustainable development, are involved in One Sky's Leading From Within-Integral Leadeship for Sustainable Development project. Your donation goes directly to the leaders breakthrough initiatives on the following topics: climate change, economic empowerment for widows, good governance, wildlife research in the rainforest, youth empowerment, and HIV/AIDS. To Meet the Leaders click here.

Currently we have teamed up with Athletes For Africa to raise funds for this charitable project. A4A is able to issue a tax receipt and e-mail it to you instantly. A small administration fee of 5%  is levied and One Sky is free from the burden of handling individual donations. They then support us and we match the funds with a pre-approved grant from the Canadian International Development Agency at a ratio of three dollars for every dollar you donate. The good news is that One Sky does not take any administration fees from your original donation and Athletes For Africa charges a nominal fee for your donation of only 5 percent. That is just about what it costs us to use Paypal or other on line services but instead of paying PayPal we are supporting another non profit foundation who are doing great work. Everyone wins. Here is some sample math. If you donate 100 dollars through the One Sky - Athletes for Africa webpage, they will instantly send you a tax receipt which you submit at tax time. Depending on which province you are in you may get between 40 and 50 dollars back on your original donation. The Canadian International Development Agency then matches your 100 dollar donation with 300 dollars directly to One Sky. In effect, you have just brought us 400 dollars closer to our goal and you only spent 50-60 dollars.  Pretty much the same cost as a night out for dinner and the movies. Go to the One Sky Athletes for Africa fundraising page by clicking here. A five hundred dollar donation on your part will cost you around 250 dollars but brings us almost 2000 dollars closer to our goal. We are leveraging your funds. Not bad, eh?

Generally speaking, you can donate in two ways other ways.

You can make a general donation to One Sky to keep us going in which case we will acknowledge your donation and track it in a general donations account. These funds will be spent on all of the hard-to-fund, core operating costs of One Sky and we will be forever grateful to people like you who recognize that it takes money to keep an organization floating. Click on the One Sky General Support widget on the right.

Donate directly to a One Sky project - current fundraising campaigns:

The second way to donate is to earmark your donation for a particular project.  In this case, every single penny of your donation will go entirely to the project expenses. One Sky does not deduct administration fees on individuals donations, we do not pay fundraisers or third party expensive mailing programs and we track your donation to ensure it ends up where you intended. Just click on the widget to donate to the current fundraising campaign you would like to support!

Note: if you are donating online, paypal automatically deducts an administration fee.

Send a cheque

Prefer snail mail? Send us a cheque indicating where you would like your donation to be applied. Mail to One Sky PO Box 3352, Smithers BC V0J 2N0 or simply drop it by the office. 

Monthly donations

You can also become a regular patron of One Sky by joining our monthly donations program. In this case you authorize your bank to pay us a monthly fee, which lightens the load for you and provides critical on-going support for us. Contact gail@onesky.ca for more information.