Nonprofits welcome your year-end gift
Dec 21st, 2011 | By Amy Lewis
Many people put off making gifts until the end of the year. If you want to make a charitable gift and be able to deduct the gift in 2011, timing is critical.
The requirements for making a year-end charitable gift by check or credit card effective for the current calendar year are relatively simple. A gift by check will be effective for 2011, if you sign the check and place it in the mail or deliver it to the charity by Dec. 31. As long as the check is paid in ordinary course, the gift is effective as of the date of mailing or delivery even if not actually cashed until the following January.