Donate
By The Numbers
A few examples of where your donation will go
- $20 Two student uniforms, enabling a child to attend public school
- $42 One year’s supply of paper for the English School at Roteang
- $75 One Month’s Cleaning supplies for the Roteang Children’s Center
- $125 Support for a farm school child for one year
- $200 100 Books for village libraries
- $260 One month’s salary for a Nanny
- $600 ($50/month) One month of supplemental support for the Kampong Speu Orphanage
- $1,000 Fuel for the Children’s Center van for one year
- $1,500 Farm Supplies for six months
- $2,400 Mondulkiri teacher for one year
- $3,000 Fresh fruit and vegetables for the Roteang Childrens Center for one month
- $6,600 University Dorm rent for one year
If you’d rather send a check, make check payable to “The Sharing Foundation” and mail to:
The Sharing Foundation, P.O. Box 600, Concord, MA 01742
Other Ways to Get Involved
Sponsor a Child
We have 3 different sponsorship programs: High School, University, or the Roteang Children’s Center.
Support our Facebook Cause
Facebook members can support The Sharing Foundation online through our Facebook Cause.
Planned Giving and
Beneficiary Designations
Designate TSF as a beneficiary in your will or living trust. A gift in your will or living trust extends your support to the children we serve. You can also name TSF as a beneficiary of your retirement account or life insurance policy. If you have a life insurance policy that is no longer needed for your family, designating TSF as a beneficiary is a simple way to support the children we serve. Naming TSF as a beneficiary of one of your assets, such as your retirement plan or life insurance policy, is another convenient way to help children.
Check out our Holiday 2025 Legacy Gifting article below for more information!
Legacy Gifting – Giving that Builds and Sustains Communities
Have you considered putting TSF in your estate plans? If you do, you are creating a legacy for our organization for years to come. Legacy gifting through estate planning provides donors of any size the opportunity to become philanthropists.
Legacy gifting is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is of utmost value to TSF and to the children of Cambodia. This thoughtful generosity helps ensure the organization continues to impact the next generations in a similar way. Legacy gifting allows us to fund endowments that guarantee a permanent resource will be available to sustain our programming long into the future.
In 2006, TSF set up an endowment fund that is now managed by the Maine Community Foundation. We owe this endowment to the generosity of TSF community members who saw the importance of making a lasting difference. Over the last five years, TSF has taken an average distribution from our endowment of $120,000 annually to help pay for our operating costs and programs, a withdrawal we expect we’ll need as long as TSF is in operation. The distribution helped provide 23% of TSF’s annual operating budget over this time.
Non-profit fundraising professionals recommend that organizations are prepared to fund at least 20% of their annual budget through distributions from their endowments, which is just where we are. However, our operating expenses are increasing at a rate outpacing our endowment growth. For that reason, we ask that you consider a donation to the TSF endowment – either a direct donation or a specifically earmarked legacy gift. Over our more than 25 year history, we have been fortunate not to need to invest a lot of energy or time on fundraising – our work and personal connections with many donors – many of you! – have brought in adequate funding to support our work. We would love to continue to focus our staff and board members’ efforts on the needs of the next generation in Cambodia. In order to do that, we appeal to you, our loyal and generous donor base.
This moment in time calls upon us to preserve and strengthen what we have built here at TSF. We invite you to be a part of assuring our vitality and vibrancy, our programs and support, our roots and our blossoms for future generations of Cambodian children. By making a bequest or other planned gift today, you will be doing your part to secure TSF’s and their future.
For more information, please email us at info@sharingfoundation.org.
IRA Required Minimum Distributions
When you turn 73, you must take a required minimum distribution (RMD) from your IRA. A charitable gift is a great way to meet this requirement and support your charities. Your annual RMD is taxable as ordinary income; however, any amount up to $100,000 you donate to a charity is not taxed. Donating a portion or all of your RMD to charity is the most tax-efficient way to support your charities.
Appreciated Securities
When you give appreciated stock, mutual funds, or bonds you’ve owned for over a year, you can avoid capital gains tax and receive a charitable income tax deduction when you itemize.
Donor Advised Funds
A donor-advised fund is an excellent way to manage your charitable giving. Donor-advised funds (DAF) enable you to make tax-deductible charitable contributions immediately without identifying beneficiaries. Many brokerage firms and banks can set up a DAF for you, and they operate like any brokerage account, except only charitable disbursements are permitted. Once you contribute cash or securities to your DAF, you can designate what charities and when you want to contribute.
For more info, please contact us at donations@sharingfoundation.org
Donate With Confidence
We are deeply committed to accountability and transparency when it comes to your donations.
