Donors face increased scrutiny from their governments as regulatory-compliance mandates are enforced. Today, program administrators are not only responsible for understanding counter-terrorism and other regulations, but also for taking affirmative steps to ensure charitable funding does not benefit terrorists or terrorist organizations.

CreateHope has established a comprehensive, proprietary system to help our clients comply with these numerous mandates - ranging from counter-terrorism and anti-fraud laws and regulations specific to many countries to the U.S. Treasury Department's Anti-Terrorist Financing Guidelines: Voluntary Best Practices for U.S.-Based Charities and beyond.

The CreateHope system qualifies potential charitable recipients against:

• Internal Revenue Service tax-exemption or its international equivalent.
• Counter-terror and other government mandates.
• North American, EU, Australian, and UN "watch lists".
• Thousands of media outlets to assess the reputation of recipient organizations.

This industry-best portfolio assures clients that all contributions are being directed to reputable and qualified charitable recipients.

U.S. Regulatory-Compliance Mandates:

Executive Order 13224 freezes the assets of individuals and/or organizations deemed by the Executive Branch to be in support of terrorism, knowingly or otherwise. "Support" includes financial and in-kind support as well as material and technical assistance. An entity facilitating such support is vulnerable if individual gifts, matching and grant funds, or volunteer-based support benefit terrorist activities. Volunteer service by employees during working hours (regardless of whether or not matching funds are involved), may expose the entity administering such a program to "asset blocking" if it is not compliant.

USA Patriot Act strengthens the government's ability to combat terrorism by imposing stricter civil and criminal penalties for any entity that knowingly provides material support or resources to support terrorism.

IRS Rules prohibit the diversion of charitable assets to any non-charitable purpose, including material or financial support of terrorism. Any 501(c)(3) organization risks the revocation of its tax-exempt status if this provision is violated, and any donation(s) given to that organization will not be tax deductible.

Embargoes and Trade Sanctions are a long-standing part of U.S. foreign policy used to accomplish a wide range of national security and counter-terrorism objectives. Embargoes are generally broad enough in scope to encompass grants to a nonprofit that provides the transfer of goods, services, or other resources to an embargoed country.