Charity Fundraising
Bottle & Can Fundraising For Your Charity
SKIPTHEDEPOT APP MAKES Charity FUNDRAISING EASY
Did you know bottles and cans can be returned to the bottle depot for cash? Many charities run bottle drives as a means to help fundraising efforts! That being said, sending volunteers door-to-door and coordinating vehicles can be a headache. SkipTheDepot lets you ditch the dirty work so your charity can focus on 'spreading the word' while we take care of collecting the bottles & cans for donation!
1. Download the App and Register Your Charity
Download SkipTheDepot from the App Store or Google Play, or visit our web app. Sign up your charity - once approved, your charity will be made available to thousands of potential donors!
2. Share your sign-up link with friends, family, and potential donors
Follow the recommendations in the app - promote on social media, share with your donor lists, friends, family - everyone!
3. That’s it! Redeem your donated funds via e-Transfer or cheque!
Donated containers will start to appear in your account. You can even issue tax receipts to your donors!
Why it's awesome
SkipTheDepot aims to provide an easy and convenient recycling service for all fundraisers
Continuous Micro Donations
SkipTheDepot makes it easy for your supporters to set up re-occurring donations to your cause! Did you know that SkipTheDepot customers have already donated over $281,768,190 to charities? Pretty neat wouldn't you say?
Tax Receipts
If your organization is a registered charity, you'll get a complete breakdown of all donor information which will make issuing tax receipts a breeze!
Easy Bottle Drives
Finding volunteers and coordinating vehicles for door-to-door bottle drives can be challenging. SkipTheDepot makes running year-round bottle drives easy. Become a Community Partner, share your charity's unique referral Code and reap the benefits of re-occurring donations from your supporters!
Growth Plan
The Growth Tools make it easy for your charity to get it's name out there and in front of SkipTheDepot's growing customer base! Follow the tasks and our social team will return the favour and don't forget to tag us at @SkipTheDepot!
Frequently Asked Questions
Find out how SkipTheDepot works for charities and fundraisers
Absolutely! Some customers prefer to donate their containers to a worthy cause! SkipTheDepot helps facilitate this by allowing customers to donate to local charities on pick up or redemption. Tax receipts are then issued to customers by the charity.
The charities are responsible for issuing their own tax receipts. We provide charities with only the user information required to issue a tax receipt (name, address, phone, postal, and donation amount). The system rolls up the donations by user (multiple donations will be summed) when a redemption is initiated.
No problem. Customers will be informed before they donate that they will not be receiving a tax receipt.
Charities use SkipTheDepot for free, but are encouraged to help spread the word (it's in your best interests!). We will provide a registration link for your charity. Any new users registering with your link will be shown your charity information and will be setup to automatically donate to your charity.
100% of the customer's returns will be donated. However, we offer slightly lower deposit rates than a depot. Eventually, we hope to remove this and offer full deposit rates as more people sign up for SkipTheDepot!
You can register here! We need the following information from the charity: Full Charity Name, Full Charity Mission Statement, PNG / Logo of Charity, CRN (Charity Registration Number), Email Address to send Transfers. There is also an approval process which involves us verifying who you say you are, the email address, and your charitable status through the government. After that, you're good to go!
Charity administrators can find a registration link on their dashboard which can be used to default users who register using the link into donating to your charity. Use this link to promote donations to your cause!
Charity administrators can log into the system and initiate an Interac e-Transfer. Alternatively, charity partners may request a cheque.
Just some good publicity. Spread the word! Tell others, give us a shout out on social media. Remember, the more customers you sign up using your registration link, the more your charity benefits!
