or Become a Charter Sponsor! CalCars has received modest support from two foundations, the Electric Auto Association, several California utilities and individuals. These funds have primarily supported our expenses for the PRIUS+ project. Until we are able to gain far more support, we remain essentially a volunteer organization, with a meager budget that means we often pass up opportunities like conferences.
That's where you come in. A few years ago, several hundred thousand Americans signed Clean Car pledges (about 25% came from California -- see links at CalCars Resources). Now, at this critical time, you get the chance to do more than express a general intention. Your actions will jump-start a historic change. Your contribution of any amount will give CalCars the means to build the Initiative to get car makers to build PHEVs (and it's tax-deductible).
If you can, we're asking you to donate a suggested $95 to become a Charter Sponsor. Together with other campaigns to organize fleet buyers, this will prove there's a viable market for better cars and show we're en route to bringing "motivated buyers" to a major car maker. Your donation will:
- Enroll you as a CalCars Charter Sponsor
- Equip us to make the case for a market with car companies (our claim that we represent serious customers won't be credible with anything less than $95 sponsors)
- Get you one of the unique bumper stickers that tells the world we can have better, cleaner cars -- display it on your car or collect it
- Give you an early opportunity to join a future CalCars Buyers Club to get a plug-in hybrid -- based on an existing vehicle, produced with or without the cooperation of a major car company
For T-shirts, other bumper stickers and license-plate holders, see products.html. We will send a bumper sticker to anyone who contributes
$25 or more.
Institutional Charter Sponsors for $495 are also available.
How to Make a Donation
Your tax-deductible donation will go to the CalCars Account at the International Humanities Center (IHC), a nonprofit public charity established in 1998 to act as a legal "fiscal sponsor" for small groups like CalCars. Donations to IHC are exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. IHC's Tax ID# is 33-0767921, and here are its IRS and California State Franchise Tax Board Letters of Determination as a 501(c)(3)."Letter of Determination" as a 501(c)(3). Here's its listing via Guidestar, the national database of nonprofit organizations.
Once the transaction is processed, you will receive an email confirmation of your donation from IHC, followed as soon as we can by a confirmation delivered by postal mail.
You can mail a check, payable to IHC/CalCars to International Humanities Center, PO Box 923, Malibu, CA 90265. (Please include both your mailing and email addresses.) You can view and print a CalCars Donation Form, where you can fill in this information.
Thank you for supporting the CalCars Initiative!
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