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Check the request before you give

For Giving Tuesday on 1 December 2026 and every year-end appeal. Tick how the request reached you, how it wants payment and what you have checked yourself.

Verify this donation request

Five short sections · stays on this page · print or copy when done

Before you give

  • They reached you first
  • Gift cards, wire or crypto
  • An answer needed today
  • A page you did not open yourself

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The worksheet

Tick only what you saw or did. Skip anything you do not know; it shows up as still to check.

How did the request arrive?

Tick all that apply.

Which payment method was requested?

Tick every method that was mentioned.

What pressure was used?

Tick all that apply.

What did you verify independently?

For each check, say whether you have done it and whether it matched. Leave it at Not yet if you have not.

Organisation name looked up from a source I chose

A search you started, a letter you already hold. Not the call, message or page that asked.

Registration looked up on an official register

Such as your state charity regulator or the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search.

Contact details compared

Phone, address and web address in the request against the ones the organisation publishes itself.

The organisation's own donation page reached without the received link

Typed the address yourself or searched for it. No link, QR code or number from the request.

Names, dates, what was said. Kept on this page only and gone when you close or reload it. Leave out card, account and PIN numbers.

Your verification list

Stop and verify

    Not yet verified

      Questions to ask the caller or sender

        If money has gone, contact the company or your bank right away. Report charity scams at ReportFraud.ftc.gov and to your state charity regulator, with the organisation's name, its phone number and what was said. [FTC]

        Verify this donation request

        Takes about three minutes. Nothing leaves this page.

        The rule

        Find the organisation yourself. Give only on a page you opened yourself.

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        What each tick does

        • StopGift cards, wire, crypto, cash and courier pickup, or a check that did not match: stop before anything moves.
        • Verify firstHow the request arrived and the pressure used: reach the organisation yourself before you decide.
        • OpenEvery check still at Not yet, with the way to do it.
        • AskQuestions matched to your ticks, ready to copy before you reply or call back.
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        Free · print or copy the sheet when you are done.

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