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User Manual
| 1. | Introduction | |
| 2. | Search Charities | |
| 2.1 - 2.2 | How to search? | |
| 2.3 - 2.7 | Search result | |
| 2.8 | Invite charity to disclose info on WiseGiving | |
| 2.9-2.10 | Charities & their subsidiaries | |
| 2.11 | Print search result | |
| 2.12-2.13 | Advanced Search | |
| 2.14 | Report violation | |
| 2.15 | Return to main page | |
| 3. | Search licensed public fundraising activities | |
| 3.1 | Search | |
| 3.2-3.3 | Search result | |
| 3.4 | Print search result | |
| 3.5-3.6 | Types of licenses for public fundraising activities | |
| 3.7 | Advanced Search | |
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Donor Services |
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| 5. | Giving Tips | |
| 5.1 | Tips for Wise Giving | |
| 5.2 | Charity Accountability | |
| 5.3 | About the WiseGiving Charity logo | |
| 5.4 | Plan Your Giving | |
| 5.5 | Pass-It-On Donations | |
| 5.6 | WiseGiving Channel | |
| 5.7 | Publication | |
| 5.8 | Donor's FAQ | |
| 5.9 | Small Charities | |
| 5.10 | Your Opinion | |
| 5.11 | Sponsors & Supporting Organizations | |
| 1. | Introduction | |||||||||
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Welcome to WiseGiving!! This electronic platform aims to provide a more comprehensive, effective and efficient tool for charitable giving. The website is an innovation that reflects HKCSS's missions:
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The navigation guide will provide an easy-to-use overview of the functions and operation
of the WiseGiving website. All the charities listed are based on the database of
tax-exempt charities approved by the Inland Revenue Department, and WiseGiving website will
be constantly updated accordingly.
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| 2. | Search Charities | |||||||||
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How to search? |
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| 2.1 | On the left hand side of the main page, there is a search engine called ‘Search Tax-Exempt Charities' where you can look up all Hong Kong charities that are exempt from tax under Section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance. | |||||||||
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The system can search these charities with exact input, and also provide potential
charities based on the names of charity or the keywords you type in.
(For ‘Advanced Search', please refer to 2.12–2.13) |
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| Search result | ||||||||||
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After pressing the ‘Search' button  , you will enter the search result
page where the
system will generate a list of charities that match or are similar to your input.
The exact match or most likely charities are always placed on the top of the list.
(*p.s. no whether which language version is used, charities' Chinese and English
names are always shown)
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If the search result is a WiseGiving Charity (indicated by a
WiseGiving Charity logo  on the right), you will also find the charity's
service description and 5 pictorial icons of ‘accountability standards' in addition
to its Chinese and English name and the effective date of becoming a tax-exempt
charity. (*p.s. Information are provided by charities on a voluntary & self-reporting
basis, and being validated by HKCSS WiseGiving)
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Press the name of a WiseGiving Charity, you will find details of the organization
which includes its mission, contact info, backgrounds, core services, achievements
and pioneer projects. You can also find out the accountability standards of the
charity by clicking the ‘Accountability Standards' button. The
same accountability standards can also be found by clicking one of the 5 pictorial
icons on the search result page.
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| 2.6 | If the result is a non-WiseGiving Charity, you can find basic information of the organization: Chinese and English name, the effective date of becoming tax-exempt charity as of the IRD database. | |||||||||
| 2.7 | To provide more info on these charities, we link the charity name with its website (if available). By pressing the name of a non-WiseGiving Charity, you may be led to its official website for viewing. | |||||||||
| Invite charity to disclose info on WiseGiving | ||||||||||
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Moreover, you are encouraged to invite non-WiseGiving Charities to join our WiseGiving
membership by clicking ‘Invite' button  on the right . By
becoming a WiseGiving Charity, the charity is required to meet our accountability
standards and disclose their info for public access. It aims to benefit all users
with better knowledge of the charity for making donation decisions. |
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| Charities & their subsidiaries | ||||||||||
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If the charity is the mother organization with one or more than one affiliate organization(s),
a ‘Subsidiaries' button  will be displayed . Press the button
and you will find a list of the charity's subsidiaries as well as their websites
(if available). |
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| 2.10 | The affiliates usually bear similar names to your primary search result and they always have descriptions stating the names of their mother organizations. | |||||||||
| Print search result | ||||||||||
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You can press ‘Print' button  on the right side under the search window to print
out the search result list including subsidiaries. |
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| Advanced Search | ||||||||||
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You can choose to search from the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) database or WiseGiving
membership record.
In the IRD section, you can search charities by the following categories:
4) Charity Size by Total Expenses, 5) Agency Member of the HKCSS, 6) Member Agency of the Chest, 7) Subvented by the Social Welfare Department |
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If you press ‘Reset' button  , all functions will be set default. |
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| Report violation | ||||||||||
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In order to promote the WiseGiving Charities' continuous effort to maintain and
improve their accountability standards (governance, finances, fundraising, service
quality and transparency), there is a ‘Report Violation'  button
at the bottom of the charity's profile for viewers to report
violation on the inaccuracy of the charities' data at WiseGiving. You can type messages
explaining what goes wrong about the data and forward to WiseGiving. WiseGiving
will carry out investigation by verifying the information with the parties involved
and ask the charities to correct their data at WiseGiving if necessary. |
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If you press the below heading, you will go back to the main page. |
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| Search | ||||||||||
| 3.1 |
The system can search the charities with licensed public fundraising activities
today or by a specific date. If you want to find out licensed activities on specific
dates, you can simply type in specific date in the box and click ‘Search'
button (A calendar will also pop up for you to select specific dates with ease).
On the other hand, you can also click ‘Today's Activities' button  for a quick view of ongoing activities. |
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| Search result | ||||||||||
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You will find a list of charities with specific license types and numbers on the
right side of search result. Each of these results shows the dates and district
of the fundraising activities. Please click the ‘Details' button
 on the right to view details of date, time, exact locations
and items for charity sales (if any). |
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By clicking the name of the charity, you can check it against the IRD database to
find out its affiliated organizations & effective date of becoming a tax-exempt
charity. Again, if the charity has its website, by clicking on the charity name,
you will be able to explore further information of the organization. WiseGiving
Charity will have a logo ‘Charity listed on WiseGiving' , you will find its organization brief and accountability standards for further
viewing (Please refer to 2.4-2.5 for further details).
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| Print search result | ||||||||||
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You can also press ‘Print' button on the right under the search window to print
out the detail information of the charities' licensed fundraising activities. |
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| Types of licenses for public fundraising activities | ||||||||||
| 3.5 | There are 4 license types: | |||||||||
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| 3.6 | Please note that it is possible for a single charity to obtain more than 1 license for fundraising activities. In such case, each of the approved fundraising activities of the search result will be listed respectively. | |||||||||
| Advanced Search | ||||||||||
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By pressing the ‘Advanced Search', you can find out specific
details of licensed public fundraising activities by the following criteria:
1）Names of Charity/ Keywords, 2) Date range, 3）License types (total 4 categories, please refer to 3.5), 4) Districts (total 5 categories: Territory-wide, Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, New Territories, and Islands) |
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| 4. | Donor Services | |||||||||
| This page links to the WiseGiving Donor Services that enable donors to manage their charitable donations in a brand new, convenient way. | ||||||||||
| 5. | Giving Tips | |||||||||
| 5.1 |
Tips for Wise Giving There are three separate sheets of tips for donors, namely, Individual, Corporate and Foundation. Each page has a list of questions. Press the questions and you will be led to answer pages. By clicking the ‘Back' button, you can go back to the previous pages. |
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| 5.2 |
Charity Accountability
This page gives you a comprehensive summary of charity accountability. You can click on the indexes and sub-indexes for further information. |
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About the WiseGiving Charity logo
This is a guide for charities on how to join as a WiseGiving Charity and the usage of the WiseGiving Charity logo. |
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Plan Your Giving
Under this heading, you will learn more about Legacy Giving and Policy Donation. You can click on the indexes and sub-indexes for further information. |
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Pass-It-On Donations
In this section, you can find out about the programme on donations in lieu of gifts / souvenirs. |
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WiseGiving Channel
You will find videos of celebrities and donors sharing their views on charitable giving. |
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Publication
Check out our e-book to read 9 wisegiving stories and be inspired! |
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Donor's FAQ
You will find a list of frequent questions that donors often ask. Press the questions and you will be led to answer pages. |
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Small Charities
This section features WiseGiving Charities that are of relatively small operations (less than 50 employees) and nevertheless, they meet social needs with specialized services. |
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Your Opinion You are most welcome to give your feedback on the WiseGiving website.After filling in the questionnaire, please don't forget to leave your comments for us. Upon completion of your questionnaire, please press the ‘Submit' button  . You can also press ‘Back'
button to set the questionnaire to the default. |
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