How do I donate a membership? Can I give away a free membership?
There might be situations where a donor, a Board member, or someone else would like to offer a free membership to an event attendee. The solution below describes how to address this.
There are two ways to give someone a free membership:
- Reimburse the prospective member
- Ask the prospective member to sign up and pay for membership themselves
- Reimburse the individual using Chapter funds (assuming you've collected the donation from the donor)
2. Pay National and have them sign up on the prospective member's behalf.
- Send National 60% of the membership dues via the BILL.com account. National can invoice the Chapter for that amount if needed (they just need to know if it's Belong or Belong +)
- If National has the customer's name and email, they can create the membership on the prospective member's behalf and send the welcome email.
Either way, you'll want to send the donor a receipt for the full amount donated. There is a donation receipt template for this in the Director of Finance "Process Donations" Folder here.
For any questions or concerns, contact help@youngcatholicprofessionals.org.