Tax-Deductible Donations

NEW! Stores will contribute to MBIRA if you sign up at Escrip.com, entering MBIRA as your "Group Name". After you sign up, the participating merchants will automatically contribute a percentage of your purchases made with credit, debit, or grocery cards, costing you nothing. Stores participating include Whole Foods, Macys, Shutterfly, Office Max, Sierra Trading Post, and many many more. Escrip is an old, safe and reliiable organization.

Even a small tax-deductible donation to MBIRA can help hugely in Zimbabwe - $15 can pay for food for a month for a rural musician's family, or food for a week for a city musician's family. With one in 4 of Zimbabwe's children now orphans (latest UN statistics!), every family is struggling to pay for basic necessities for themselves and the orphans they support...nutritious food, primary school fees, and medical care of any kind are often out of reach for the majority of the traditional musicians MBIRA has recorded.

Your donations help MBIRA to

• Continue to record a wide variety of Zimbabwean traditional musicians, supporting more rural musicians in Zimbabwe, as well as archiving their styles.
• Pay recorded musicians whose recording earned less than $100 in royalties this year - because this is still considered payment for the recording, the musician maintains his self-respect ("Musicians Fund").
• Convert older mbira recordings to CD format, so that those musicians will also earn royalties (tape sales are now negligible)

To make a tax-deductible donation by CHECK or MONEY ORDER, make it out to MBIRA and send to MBIRA, P.O. Box 7863, Berkeley, CA 94707-0863, USA.

To make a tax-deductible donation by CREDIT CARD, click here to do it securely online, or send your credit card information by mail or fax (please include your phone number in case we need more information to process it).

You can also add a donation to your recordings order.

We will send a confirmation letter for your records for any donation of $100 or more, if requested. Your cancelled check, or printout of your online donation, is usually sufficient to document yoru donation. Thanks for your help!!

MBIRA is incorporated in the State of California as a non-profit organization and has federal (United States) 501(c)3 status. Keep a record of your tax-deductible donation.

Help!! MBIRA also needs donations of your time and expertise. Any grant writers out there?? We're also looking for help with tech work and office work - a website database expert is particularly needed. California only, please, as it is difficult to work with volunteers long distance. (however, you are welcome to come and visit!) Please email erica@mbira.org