Method of streamlining the acknowledgement of a multiplicity of contribution or gift commitments made at a plurality of remote locations to distinct fund-raising organizations and gift recipients and system therefor

A system for simplifying the management of a multiplicity of contributions or gifts made at a plurality of remote locations, comprising,

• a plurality of portable non-lane contributions or gifts management devices dispersed among different crowds of prospective contributors or gift givers at geographically remote locations, the devices having a multiplicity of data temporarily thereon comprised of monetary contribution or monetary gift commitments data for batch off-loading of said data from said non-lane contributions or gifts management devices to a data receiving device whereby recordation of each of the contributions is uninterrupted by verification of validation and/or authorization, communication links between the contributions or gifts management devices for communicating the contribution or gift commitment data to a central apparatus remote from the devices, means for automatically correlating a plurality of the contribution or gift data with address information data of respective contributors or gift givers, and means for automatically entering credits or debits to accounts of contributors or gift givers for a plurality of the contribution or gift commitments and to accounts of recipient's of the respective gifts or contributions.

A streamlined method of determining the tax deductibility status of a plurality of contribution or gift commitments, comprising the steps of,

• receiving a plurality of contribution or gift commitment data from a plurality of portable remotely located devices in batch whereby recordation of each of the contributions was uninterrupted by verification of validation and/or authorization, said devices having means for the entry of data comprised of contribution or gift commitments, at a central processing device, and automatically correlating charitable contribution deduction status data to the respective contribution or gift commitments data to obtain deduction status data sets,
• whereby a multiplicity of contribution or gift commitments made at a plurality of remote locations, to distinct gift recipients, or to distinct fund-raising organizations are readily assigned a tax deductibility status.