Donation box
Donation box (also collecting box ) is the name of a metal container in which donations are collected for a non-profit or charitable cause. Some organizations hold street or door collections , while others place their cans in their own branches or in stores at the cash register.
In some legal systems , special legal regulations apply to fundraising. Street and door-to-door collections, where the potential donor is approached directly and immediately has to decide for or against a donation, were previously subject to approval throughout Germany, but are now only in Rhineland-Palatinate , Thuringia and Saarland . In the other federal states, the relevant collection laws have been repealed without replacement, and anyone can collect donations there without official permission.
It is not known who introduced the collection cans in German-speaking countries. In any case, in the 19th century they were successfully used as a mission money box by the mission associations , as well as by the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People , which at the end of the 19th century had an annual income of around 25,000 Reichsmarks. Today the DGzRS collecting boats are the most famous donation boxes in Germany and collect around one million euros every year.
The Salvation Army traditionally collects donations in converted soup pots. This practice has been proven since the end of the 19th century. In December 1891, a Salvation Army captain is said to have collected this way for the first time in San Francisco . In 1898, US newspapers spoke of the Salvation Army's “pot collection”. In 1921 the organization collected in this way for the first time in Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ DZI donation tips. (PDF; 24 KB) German Central Institute for Social Issues, accessed on April 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Article German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People in Brockhaus Konversationslexikon around 1895
- ↑ Ulf Kaack, Harald Focke: 333 ships that you have to know! GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86245-751-9 , pp. 285 .
- ↑ Publication of the Swiss Salvation Army (pdf) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
