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90% of our funding comes from individual donors. Learn how you can support MSF’s lifesaving care with a gift.

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Type of fundraisers

Special occasions

Make your milestones even more special by dedicating your birthday, wedding, or any celebration to MSF's lifesaving work around the world.

Athletic events

Whether you're a speed walker or a triathlete, go the extra mile by supporting MSF while participating in your favorite athletic event.

Corporate support

Engage your colleagues or employees by holding a fundraiser at your place of work.

Community fundraisers

Activate your community to support our mission by holding your own fundraiser, such as silent auctions, concerts, or bake sales.

Play video games and stream online

Team up with MSF and inspire your viewers to raise awareness and funds for our emergency medical work.

Tribute fundraisers

Continue the legacy of a loved one and their desire to support MSF's work across the world.

Fundraising Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Fundraising FAQs

Collecting and submitting donations

For the security of the donations, we strongly urge you not to mail in cash donations. For any cash donation you receive, please convert the cash to a cashier's check or a money order and mail it with a completed donation form. Please be sure to include the donor's personal information on the donation form so that an accurate receipt can be generated for tax purposes. Please do not deposit the cash into your own account and write a check for that amount; the IRS regards this as income and in addition, if a check is written from your account, your donor won’t receive a tax receipt. It isn't possible to have a check written from your personal account credited to another donor. However, if you have several cash donations from different donors and want to convert them to one check, you can accompany one cashier's check with multiple donation forms to indicate the amount that each donor contributed. Each donor will receive a tax receipt for the amount specified on their donation form.

Attn: Fundraising Events
Doctors Without Borders USA
P.O. Box 5030
Hagerstown, MD 21741-5030

Please make sure to include a note with your fundraising campaign name and contact info.  

Please make all checks payable to: Doctors Without Borders.

If a donor makes the check out to you, simply endorse the check with your signature and "Payable to Doctors Without Borders" and submit it with the donation form. Please note that the account holder on the check will receive the tax receipt from Doctors Without Borders.

The only way we know that a mail-in contribution was made on your behalf is if the donor has placed your name on the memo line of their check, or attached the donation form to their check. Please ask them to clearly mark on the donation form that the donations is in support of your fundraising page.

We do not recommend this method. If you collect all of the donations and deposit them into your account so that you can write one check, two things will happen:

  1. Since the check is from your account, your donors will not receive a tax receipt from Doctors Without Borders.
  2. The IRS will consider that deposit income in your account and you could be taxed on the amount.