An event with fees can not accept a donation. (See Why are donations towards domestic event program fees not tax deductible?)
Event with fees are not set up with the ability to receive taxable donations in the system because it is prudent to keep tax deducible donations and event payments separated. Therefore, an event fund can not accept both fee payments and donations.
There may be times where an event with fees wants to find a way to accept a donation to help cover costs. This can happen if the donation is made through a different Reliant department fund that is partnered with the event (for example the church partner fund) that is able to accept donations and then that department fund can request an internal transfer of that donation into the event with fees fund. (See Event Fund Transfer Requests.)
LT and Event Giving Fund.
A Collegiate event fund (0670) has been created for all Collegiate events with fees (specifically with LTs in mind) that are requesting to support raising with donors to help their overall budget and keep the fees low for staff and participants. The domestic Collegiate LT event funds are events with fees payments and therefore they can not accept tax-deductible donations. However, there are certain donors that want to support the LT programs every year.
Therefore, in order for a donor to donate, they would have to donate to the Collegiate fund 0670 called "LT and Event Giving" on reliant.org (https://reliant.org/lt.and.event.giving). This fund was set up to receive donations for those that want to give towards the general leadership training events.
This fund is overseen by Collegiate National Board and if funds are received the event leaders can request that transfers be made to their event (those transfers can be requested and approved by the National LT Director.)
If a specific LT event with fees was anticipating a donation they can reach out to the National LT Director. The National LT Director receives an update each month to know what funds were received and the event leader can request that the National LT Director approve a department transfer (Transferring Funds to Another Project or Field Staff Account).
Please send instructions to the donor to go to reliant.org (direct link: https://reliant.org/lt.and.event.giving) to make the donation. (If a church is wanting to donate by credit card, they will need to call gift services 877-614-4600 to make the donation by phone as a church cannot log into reliant.org as an organization to donate.) If they wish to send a check, please make sure that they include the fund 0670 in the memo line.
