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At IDEAS, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to build a brighter future. Migrants and resident in Mexico face overwhelming challenges: getting residency status, establishing a new home and schooling for children, starting and growing their microenterprise, growing it to the point of needing to access the financial resources they need to succeed.
Your generosity makes it possible for us to offer life-changing training, mentorship, and financial tools that empower them to turn their dreams into reality. Serve migrants coming from Latin Americans and Mexican families sending and receiving remittances to strengthen their family businesses.
When Mexicans return from working in the US, they need a financial education as well. With your support we can help them find the financing they need to create thriving microbusinesses that support families and communities.
$50
Provides training materials for 5 participants to learn essential entrepreneurial and financial skills.
$125
Funds a participant’s attendance in our eight sessions over four weeks Financial Inclusion Course.
$250
Helps additional awareness campaigns to inform migrants and returnees about the training and assistance program.
$500
Covers the cost of personalized consulting sessions for five microentrepreneurs to strengthen their businesses.
$1,000
Provides training for a nonprofit organization to begin their support of migrant microentrepreneurs.
$2,000
Covers the development of educational manuals for government and nonprofit partners on supporting migrant financial inclusion.
$3,000
Supports the development of additional strategic alliances across the 32 states of Mexico.
$5,000
Funds workshops for government remittance agencies with 1750 branches to learn how to support their clients to build family businesses and support the economic and social potential of Mexicans returning to Mexico to be business owners.
$10,000
Helps IDEAS extend the Financial Inclusion Course to new regions of Mexico reaching more migrant entrepreneurs who want to learn.
Ready to Make a Difference?
Giving Through Online Transfers and Checks
Every dollar you give help supports programs that create lasting change. Your donation fuels programs that don’t just teach skills, they transform lives. You’ll be redirected to our secure website with Network for Good to make a donation. You have the option to complete a form to transfer from your account to IDEAS.
You can either donate the transfer fees or indicate IDEAS to cover the fee.
Your gifts can be transformative, not just for the lives we serve, but for your own giving strategy. If you have questions or need assistance with your donation, please contact us at: donations@ideasnet.org.
You also can send a check to: IDEAS,
1702 Dancing Fox Road, Decatur, GA 30032.
Together, we’re creating opportunities and empowering migrants and returnees to achieve sustainable futures.
Thank you for considering a gift to IDEAS.
We Have Added New Ways to Make A Gift
Make An Even Bigger Impact with Your Tax Wise Donations
Give Your Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)
If you’re 73½ or older, you are required by the IRS to make a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) each year. You can choose how much of that you want to give to us. A Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) reduces tax that you would pay if you receive the required minimum distribution while supporting IDEAS’ work.
What You Need to Do:
Instruct your IRA custodian to send a distribution directly to our original incorporated name that is Southern Neighborhoods Network with (We are legally doing business as IDEAS). You need to notify the IRS that you have made the QCD.
Please contact us for more information at donations@ideasnet.org.
Donate Your Appreciated Securities
Donating appreciated securities, such as stocks or bonds, allows you to make a significant impact while potentially avoiding capital gains taxes that you would have paid if you had sold your securities and then had the cash to make donations. It’s a win-win if you support IDEAS’ mission, and you may receive a tax deduction for the full market value of the securities.
What You Need to Do:
Contact your financial advisor and tell them the dollar amount you want to transfer. They will advise you on the names of the most appreciated securities. The brokerage will calculate the number of shares equaling that dollar amount.
They will transfer your selected securities to our Charles Schwab in the name of Southern Neighborhoods Network (the original name of our organization). Please contact us for the number of our Schwab account and any information you may need to make the transfer. Please write us at donations@ideasnet.org.
Give A Donor Advised Fund (DAF)
A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) is a convenient and tax-efficient way to manage your charitable giving. Typically, a nonprofit organization sets up DAF and when you contribute to it, you receive an immediate tax deduction for your donation in its name. An extra advantage is you are not required to donate in the same year you donate to DAF. This flexibility allows you to make a larger contribution upfront and donate at your convenience over several years.
Contact your DAF provider and recommend a grant to Southern Neighborhoods Network, which is the original name of IDEAS that the IRS uses. The DAF provider will want to use it to make sure that we are a tax-exempt non-profit. For more that 40 years, we have been registered legally to do business as IDEAS.
Donate Your Appreciated Cryptocurrency
Donating cryptocurrency is a tax-smart way to support IDEAS. You may avoid capital gains taxes and that you would have paid if you had sold it and then gifted it to a non-profit organization. IDEAS will explain the channel for these tax deductible donations.
Contact us at donations@ideasnet.org to get our account information and the giving amount. We will make sure to confirm receipt and
provide you with the necessary acknowledgment for tax purposes.
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