20120228 Helping Hands- Make check payable to . .

Executive Summary Payee should be MPUMC  Memo Line should be: Helping Hands Fund Memo Line may be: Helping Hands  Fund - name of honor or memorial  To complete otherwise, see Treasurer, Officer, or Chair of Helping Hands Committee  --------------------------------------------------------------- (note: Forms and text in all Helping Hands Sections might be edited based on these instructions. Check with officers for current forms or questions. Dsr)
Subject:Helping Hands Donations
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:13:15 -0500

From: Jim
All:

>>MPUMC response (below) to our questions about donating to the HH fund.

Highlights:

>Writing the check to MPUMC ensures that the donor will get an acknowledgement

from the church as a charitable donation. 

>Put "Helping Hands Fund - name of honoree", in the memo line.

>The HH account is for Ownbey use only.  No other group in the church has access.

>The church can only write checks from the fund at the direction of Ownbey officer(s)

and those checks must be to an organization, not an individual.  Having said that, I believe

the church can write a check to Ownbey, and we, in turn, could write a check to an individual

as directed and approved by HH.

>Any questions, just call.....

Jim 

 ----- Original Message -----

From:Linda E in Church Office

To Jim  Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:44 AM

Subject: RE: Helping Hands Donations

 Jim,

 >All checks should be payable to MPUMC with a note on the memo line in whose honor or memory the donation was made. You can add “Helping Hands Fund” (on Memo Line) if you like.

 >All memorials and honoraria made to the church are acknowledged by the church.

 >The HH account can only be disbursed upon request of the Ownbey Class by an officer of the class. Check requests should be made by using a check request form and placing it in my staff box. I will write the check.

>Important to note would be that checks cannot be made payable to an individual, they should be made payable to an organization, business, agency etc. because the donors gift is credited as a tax deductible donation.

>If checks are written directly to the Ownbey Class and deposited in the class account ( not the church’s) the donation would have to be acknowledged by the class. I would recommend that all donations be made to the church.

 >Hope this helps.Linda

From: Jim Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 5:57 PM
To: Linda E Subject: Helping Hands Donations

 Linda:

 >We've gotten conflicting info on how to make out checks to our

SS class's (Ownbey) Helping Hands fund.

 1/  MPUMC - Ownbey

     memo:  Helping Hands - name of honoree

 2/  MPUMC - Helping Hands

     memo: Ownbey - name of honoree

 >Does it matter?  Is there a preferred method?

 >Do the honoree or their family get notified of the donation(s)?

>Also, is it true that Ownbey is the only group that has access

to those Helping Hands funds?

Thanks for your help. Jim