{"id":66,"date":"2016-04-05T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T08:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cc-stiftung.de.w0144e97.kasserver.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2017-01-16T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T14:31:36","slug":"how-you-can-help","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/how-you-can-help\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon its creation in 1994, the State of Berlin granted the foundation an endowment. The activities of the foundation may only be financed through proceeds from the endowment and project donations.<\/p>\n<p>You can help the foundation by making a donation to it, either to increase its endowment, or to fund a specific project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/endowment-contributions\/\">Endowment contributions<\/a> are very welcome. To ensure that large donations to the endowment are not used to unduly influence the foundation, they must be approved by the foundation\u2019s supervisory board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/donations\/\">Donations <\/a>can be transferred at any time to the foundation\u2019s bank account using a wire transfer (recommended for people with a bank account in the EU):<\/p>\n<p>Checkpoint Charlie Foundation<br \/>\nBerliner Volksbank<br \/>\nBLZ 100 900 00<br \/>\nAccount Number 884 805 1005<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"de\">IBAN Number: DE 90 1009 0000 8848 0510 05<br \/>\nSWIFT Code: BEVODEBB<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can also make a donation via Paypal (recommended for people without a bank account in the EU):<\/p>\n<h3>Donate via Paypal<\/h3>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\"><input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/de_DE\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<p>Contributions to the foundation are tax deductible in Germany. For more information, see the German version of this page. Unfortunately, since the foundation is not incorporated in the USA,\u00a0 contributions are not deductible from US income tax at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Even small donations and endowment contributions help the foundation immensely in supporting German-American relations in the city of Berlin. Please contact us any time if you have questions or would like us to recommend an attorney in your area.<\/p>\n<p>The Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, with its promotion of tolerance in the areas of culture and international understanding, is exempt from federal income tax. Exemption is granted by notice from the tax office according to the federal income tax law, corporate body I, tax number 27\/605\/50291, from June 17, 2002 for the years 1999-2001, \u00a75 para.1 Nr. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Allowances, in terms of \u00a710 b of the income tax law concerning \u00a75 para.1 Nr. 9 of the federal income tax law, is designated to corporate bodies, associations of individuals, or estates that promote international understanding in terms of the attachment 1 to \u00a748 para. 2 of the income tax implementation regulations, para. A Nr. 10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon its creation in 1994, the State of Berlin granted the foundation an endowment. The activities of the foundation may only be financed through proceeds from the endowment and project <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/how-you-can-help\/\">Weiterlesen \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}