• While CPAWS can provide guidance and advice for your event/activity, it is not mandatory, nor is CPAWS responsible for any details related to your event including costs, volunteer recruitment, publicity, presence at the event and/or any other additional elements not listed.

• CPAWS’ event involvement, including staff presence and promotional assistance, will be done at the discretion of CPAWS and will be based on resources available, location, date and time.
  
  
• During the promotion of the event, you may not endorse any product, organization, individual, cause or service on behalf of CPAWS without the organization’s direct consent.
  
  
• All promotional materials using CPAWS’ name and/or logo must be approved by CPAWS prior to publication and/or distribution.
  
  
• CPAWS must approve all spokespeople speaking publicly about the relationship between your activity and our organization.
  
  
• All materials should clearly state the amount or percentage of funds that will be donated to CPAWS (for example if $5 from every ticket sold is to be donated to CPAWS, this must be indicated).
  
  
• All promotional materials must indicate that your event is “in support” of CPAWS and is not “hosted by” or “an official” CPAWS event.
  
  
• CPAWS accepts no legal responsibility and cannot be held liable for any risk, injury or other damages related to the fundraising initiative.
  
  
• All fundraising must follow the Revenue Canada rules and regulations giving and CPAWS charitable tax receipt policy as detailed below. All funds raised are due to CPAWS within 30 days of the event.

Charitable Tax Receipt Implications

• The charitable tax receipting policy is dependent on the type of fundraising initiative that is being undertaken, to comply with Canada Revenue Agency rules. Please see below for CPAWS’ tax receipting policy. If you are undertaking an event where you are asking people to pledge, CPAWS requests that an online giving page be created. We recommend using canadahelps.org. This will ensure that all donors are properly receipted.
  
  
• Please indicate how the funds will be received directly to CPAWS (via cash, e-transfer and/or cheque).
  
  
• Inform CPAWS if there is an expected matching gift component. (Provide Name and address of Matching Donor/Company).
  
  
• If you are accepting individual donations, please be advised that CPAWS does not receipt individual donations of less than $20.00, unless specifically requested.
  
  
• If you choose to accept individual donations and the donor requests a charitable receipt, it is your responsibility to record the full contact information of each individual donor and submit this information to CPAWS in a timely manner. CPAWS will provide receipts based on the information you submit and the money received. CPAWS is not accountable for any misinformation, incomplete information, or incorrect tax receipting due to errors at your end.