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

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[theljstaff]

Yes - glad you asked. Any non-U.S. person may request and use a DonorsChoose.org gift certificate. Thanks for getting involved!

Just to be crystal-clear

[pauamma]

When you say "non-US person", which categories below are you referring to?

1- US citizen living outside the US
2- non-US citizen living in the US
3- non-US citizen living outside the US

Quoting from the DonorsChoose.org website, while redeeming a GC (step 3 - payment):What if I live outside the United Stated?
[...] DonorsChoose.org cannot accept donations from non-US citizens.

Does that also apply to gift certificates issued to people in category 2 or 3 above?

butting in

[doire]

I think the donation is from a US company even if you send it.

I tried and got confirmation that it had been accepted. Interestingly, other family members have not had a reply to their emails so it may be one gift certificate per IP address.

[sivullinen]

Yeah, I'm kind of confused about this as well. As pauamma quoted, according to their website, "DonorsChoose.org cannot accept donations from non-U.S. citizens." How can I use my gift certificate? Lie about my address? Give it to some US friend of mine to use?

And I was feeling so good about this project... :(

HTH

[doire]

I think the donation is from a US company, ie LJ, even if you send it.