We are proud to announce the official public launch ofSilent Donor International,our charitable fund based in Europe that will enable donors from all around the world to send fully anonymous international donations to the NGOs, charities, and nonprofit organizations they’re passionate about supporting. This fund is proudly located in the international city of peace and justice, The Hague.
Our goal with this fund is to help make the world a smaller place for anonymous donors. We wanted to build a global arm of our company that helps simplify private, global philanthropy for all donors. This fund represented our first institutional step outside of the US to serve global donors of all countries, as we believe that sending safe, private donations is a human right that all donors should enjoy. This privacy can also help protect many donors who live in areas of the world experiencing political/economic unrest or strife as they donate to causes or NGOs that might cause them to be unfairly targeted by those in positions of power, as we have unfortunately seen happen many times in the past.
Through Silent Donor International, donors can easily send anonymous donations to NGOs and charitable causes around the world (with a focus on organizations outside of the US). We also hope to appeal to more donors in Europe, many of whom we know hold privacy as a strong value, with access to our service as well.
The donation process is going to follow the same proven model that we have built in the US, only instead of using the AnonDo Fund for facilitating these donations (as we do for all US-based donations), we will use the Silent Donor International fund for all donations going to help charitable causes or institutions that are based outside of the US.
A breakdown of the process: all the donations submitted throughthis donation pagewill first go to Silent Donor International (officially registered as “Stichting SD International” in the Netherlands – CCI Number 88337391). Then, our fund will send your donation to the organization that you choose without including ANY of your personal information. The donation will appear to come directly from our fund. We remain firmly committed to protecting the privacy of all donors. We also, however, remain committed to conducting strict diligence for each organization that a donor chooses, and will follow all AML best practices and guidelines as they exist in European law (also monitoring FATF recommendations and OFAC/Interpol lists and guidelines).
We chose to establish this foundation in the Netherlands for a few important reasons. They have a strong history of philanthropy, the speed and ease of doing business in the Netherlands is outstanding, Dutch public benefit organizations are allowed to send grants to NGOs/charitable causes outside of the country without it affecting their status as a charitable foundation, and, most importantly, they have inculcated a strong culture of privacy for donors giving to charity. Their governing authorities do not require the disclosure of the names or personal information of individual donors to charities, for example. Instead, charitable reports may include aggregate data on the number of donors and the total amount of donations received. In our view, this still holds charities accountable as an instrument of public benefit, without unnecessarily infringing on the privacy of their individual donors.
We are also proud to have our European headquarters within theHumanity Hubcommunity and space in The Hague, which operates an international community of charities, NGOs, and other organizations aimed at spreading peace and justice across the world.
If you would like to send an anonymous donation in support of an international charity or nonprofit organization, click the donate button below!