Participate in the Blogger Challenge & Help Students and Schools

[theljstaff]

One of the best kept secrets about the LiveJournal community is how incredibly generous you all are. It's not just the fact that so many of you volunteer to help LJ out, or are such active participants in communities online. It's what you do to support communities offline that makes us so proud of what LJ is. (A recent example was the way you all

Comments

[lion]

It's a shame it's US-centric, as a UK girl I'd love to have participated, but I'm pleased LJ is supporting it nonetheless.

[the_gwenzilliad]

Ditto. It would be nice to be able to lend support from a community as large and as global as LJ is to places outside the United States of America.

[etherial]

If an international community like LJ drums up enough support, they probably will expand it to being an international program. Plus, it costs you nothing to spend $30 of SixApart's money.

[maidenmorticia]

... and we won't be getting tax reciepts we can use in our countries outside the US. Thanks, but no thanks, I'd rather receive the tax benefits I get for donating to worthy local causes I can trust.

[ladyvorkosigan]

But . . . you don't necessarily need to kick in any of your own money meaning there would be no tax receipts at all.

[maidenmorticia]

So then, does LJ Inc. get the tax break?

[ladyvorkosigan]

No, you would get the tax break if you were eligible to receive it. But it's not your $30, so you'll get the same zero tax break on it if you don't request a certificate as if you do.

[dbang]

For the $30, yes they do. (It's their $30 and they are giving it to a charity; you just get to decide WHICH charity.) For any additional contributions, your local laws apply. (In the US, presumably yes. I have no idea what other countries' laws are regarding donating to a non-profit in another country.)