Rules and Eligibility

Give Back Tahoe Giving Season Eligibility:

• Nonprofit organizations with a physical location/mailing address in North Tahoe-Truckee within the TTUSD Boundaries. 
  • Neighborhoods include the West and North Lake Shore, Donner Summit, Olympic Valley, Martis Valley, and Truckee.
• Nonprofit organizations must provide more than 50% of their services to the communities listed above.
• Only verified 501c(3) status or organizations with a fiscal sponsor who is a 501c(3) may participate.
• The following organizations are not eligible: private foundations (operating and non-operating), foreign organizations, individuals, places of worship, and supporting organizations.

Volunteer Opportunity Posting Eligibility:

• Nonprofit organizations with a physical location/mailing address in North Tahoe-Truckee within the TTUSD Boundaries. 
  • Neighborhoods include the West and North Lake Shore, Donner Summit, Olympic Valley, Martis Valley, and Truckee.
• Nonprofit organizations must provide more than 50% of their services in the communities listed above.
• The following organizations are not eligible: private foundations (operating and non-operating), foreign organizations, individuals, and supporting organizations.
• Outside of the annual giving season, organizations that did not participate in the GBT campaign are welcome to create a page and post volunteer opportunities.
  • However, during the Give Back Tahoe Giving Season, volunteer opportunities posted by any organizations not participating or ineligible for the Giving Season will be temporarily suspended. They will be reposted after the giving season wraps up.

Give Back Tahoe Giving Season Donors & Gifts:

1. A donor is defined as an individual or corporation/business. 
2. Organizations cannot donate to themselves or make donations on behalf of a donor.
3. No donations via check, cash, or stock will be accepted unless processed via TTCF.
4. Donations may not be used to pay for anything that might be perceived as a material benefit to the donor including dinner tickets, membership fees, golf fees, admission tickets, raffle tickets, event sponsorships or other gifts.
5. Give Back Tahoe Giving Season gifts should not be payments on existing pledges, payments for tuition, payments for event tickets, or tithing.
6. Each gift is 100% tax-deductible and irrevocable.
7. Give Back Tahoe Giving Season gifts are considered unrestricted gifts to the nonprofit. A donor may express the desire that a gift be used for a specific program or project (in the notes field of the giving form), but it is the nonprofit's responsibility to follow that instruction, not the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation's.
8. Secure donations for Give Back Tahoe Giving Season are provided through Tahoe Truck Community Foundation to each donor entering their own credit card information directly on www.givebacktahoe.org. Any third party who enters credit card information on behalf of a donor, by their actions of entering any such credit card information on behalf of a donor, has signified their agreement with the Give Back Tahoe Giving Season sponsoring organizations:
   1. to assume all risk of loss and any liability associated with such transaction and 
   2. to indemnify each of the sponsoring organizations of Give Back Tahoe Giving Season against any and all risk of loss and any liability associated with such transaction.