Pick. Click. Give. in the News

Posted At : March 26, 2010 7:40 AM | Posted By : AP Sherman-Risdahl
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With the PFD filing deadline looming, Pick. Click. Give. has received some media coverage recently. Here are some of the articles:

PFD application deadline looms - KTNA 88.9FM
March 31 marks the deadline for Alaskans to file for their 2010 Permanent Fund Dividend. The state Department of Revenue expects that they will receive 50,000 more applications online in the closing week of the filing period.The PFD division alerts Macintosh computer users that they won't be able to process their 2010 PFD application if they use web browser Safari. The division recommends Mac users to switch to the application Firefox.

'Pick-Click-Give' a great way to spur philanthropy - Juneau Empire
I have always found Alaskans to be generous, good at supporting worthy causes and taking care of each other. I know many instances where someone without health insurance needed help, and the floodgates of support opened wide.

Dividends allow us to help those in need (editorial) - Homer News

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Pick. Click. Give. in the News

Posted At : November 6, 2009 7:46 AM | Posted By : AP Sherman-Risdahl
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The PFD Charitable Contributions Program is making the news across the state! Here are just a few of the news items.

Anchorage Daily News: Alaska nonprofits welcome Permanent Fund charity windfall
NICE SURPRISE: "Pick. Click. Give." program gives unexpected boost.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
PFD donations net big bucks for Fairbanks charities

Juneau Empire: Charities sharing $550,000 from Permanent Fund

Alaska Public Radio Network: Nonprofits Tally Results of Pick, Click, Give
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau
Nonprofits around the state are tallying their contributions from the new PFD check-off program. It’s the Pick-Click-Give campaign, which brought in $550,000 statewide. The Food Bank of Alaska took in the most money from the program, more than $28,000. Alaska Public Telecommunications, which runs APRN, KSKA and KAKM will receive $19,000 dollars.

KTNA Talkeetna: Local non-profits get boost from PFD donations
by Diana Haecker ~ November 4th, 2009

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First-day PFD filings are way up (Anchorage Daily News, Jan. 2, 2009)

Posted At : January 2, 2009 2:25 PM | Posted By : AP Sherman-Risdahl
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Great article about the PFD Charitable Contributions Program and Pick. Click. Give. in the ADN this week!

First-day PFD filings are way up

PICK, CLICK, GIVE: Applicants can spread the wealth to 333 charities.

By SHEILA TOOMEY

What were you doing at midnight on New Year's Eve?

Dancing? Drinking? Toasting and getting kissed?

Then you were not among the hundreds of Alaskans who chose to welcome 2009 with fingers poised over a computer keyboard, eager to apply for the 2009 Permanent Fund dividend.

The application period opened at 12:01 a.m. Thursday and closes March 31.

In the first hour after midnight last year, 807 people filed online applications, according to Deborah Bitney, director of the Permanent Fund Dividend Division. By 2 p.m. last Jan. 1, 10,000 had applied.

But this year's numbers crushed that.

As of 2:47 p.m. Thursday, the count at the PFD Web site was 18,634.

By 6:14 p.m., it had ballooned to 26,772.

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Have you already filed for your 2009 PFD online? And are you planning to Pick. Click. Give.?

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Pick. Click. Give. in the News

Posted At : December 17, 2008 11:08 AM | Posted By : AP Sherman-Risdahl
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The Pick. Click. Give. campaign is getting some coverage by the media and other write ups.

Alaska PFD recipients can donate via click for 2009

APRN's Ed Schoenfeld covered Pick. Click. Give.

Backers hope a new charitable-giving program will help Alaska service groups hit hard by the nation’s economic downturn. But its proceeds will not make it into nonprofit groups’ coffers until later next year. The "Pick. Click. Give." program stems from legislation introduced by a Southeast lawmaker.

Listen to the full segment.

Rep. Applauds AK Giving Coalition's PFD Charitable Giving Web site

Thomas Sponsored HB 166, Allowing Alaskans to Give Through PFD App.

(Haines) - Representative Bill Thomas, R-Haines, was pleased to see the debut of the Alaska Giving Coalition's "Pick.Click.Give." project, which offers Alaskans a tool to help select which local non-profits to donate to when choosing whether to donate a portion of their Permanent Fund Dividend checks during on-line filing.

Read press release.

Group launches campaign to help donate PFDs to charity

by Channel 2 News staff
Monday, December 1, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A charitable group is hoping to tap into the growing number of Alaskans applying for their Permanent Fund Dividend checks online. A group called the Alaska Giving Coalition is launching a campaign called Pick. Click. Give.

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