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Church fund raising — beware of returned checks!

January 22nd, 2008

If you have been doing any type of church fund raising for any length of time, you may have experienced the perennial problem of returned checks. It goes something like this: someone writes a personal check to pay for a product which you are selling as a fundraiser. They get the product and you deposit the check — but it is returned for insufficient funds. You attempt to get your money, but the person will engage in stall and delay tactics — in some cases you may never recover the funds at all, and your church will have to take the financial loss. For this reason, many organizations have a strict policy of not accepting personal checks in payment for these types of purchases.

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