March 22, 2011
Dear Friends,
The Newport Beach Sister City Association has
received several inquiries from the public asking where they can donate funds
to Japan
to help with the current crisis. Rotary
International has a system in place whereby individuals and businesses can send
donations for specific charities to their local Rotary Chapter and these funds
will then be matched at several levels of their organization before they are
forwarded to the charity.
NBSCA has had a long-standing relationship with the
Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa.
Thirty years ago Sister
City was founded by several of their
members as a support group for a proposed student exchange program with Okazaki, Japan. We are recommending that you send your
donation to their club where it will be matched and sent on to their
international organization. Your
donation will be matched once or more before it is forwarded to a Rotary
Chapter in Okazaki, Japan. The Okazaki-South Rotary Club will then
distribute the funds to the appropriate recovery organizations.
This process takes a little longer to reach those in
need than does a direct contribution, but the final result is that your
donation may be multiplied several times over and will be placed by the
Okazaki- South Rotary directly in the hands of those it can help the most.
If
you are interested in sending a donation to Japan via the Rotary
Foundation
Matching Funds Program, please follow these instructions.
- Send a check made out
to Newport-Balboa Rotary Foundation and write “Japanese Recovery Matching
Funds” on the bottom of the check.
- Mail your check to -
Newport-Balboa Rotary Foundation,
Japanese Recovery Matching Fund, P.O. Box 1944, Newport Beach,
CA 92663
The
Newport-Balboa Rotary Foundation Fund is a 501(c)(3) Corporation. Your contribution will be tax deductible to
the fullest extent of the tax laws and you will receive a receipt for any
contribution you may make.
NBSCA
thanks you in advance for your generosity.
Our thought and prayers are with the people of Japan as they
work toward recovery.
Sincerely,
Liddy
Paulsen, President
NBSCA P.O. BOX 3134 NEWPORT BEACH CA 92659 www.nbsca.org