OPT Interns, please review this section carefully.
We are already making the world a better place by making it easy and rewarding for people to show their love by making a meaningful charitable donation in a friend's name instead of buying yet more "stuff."
Imagine how much good nonprofits could do with even 1% of the $450 billion Americans spend each year on birthday, wedding, and holiday presents.
A Very Efficient Nonprofit
We are very cost-efficient. We have no paid staff and no office space. And as a nonprofit, nobody is profiting.
Expenses So We Can Serve You and Those in Need
However, we do have extensive software licenses, hosting costs, insurance, accounting, audit, and other costs, which we need to cover to operate and to provide internships for you and your peers.
OPT Interns are Helping
Many of our recent interns made a $250 donation when they got a job and ended their internship. As one wrote,
"You totally saved me! If I had not found Changing The Present, I would have had to pay a fortune to some staffing company (some charge a $1k to $5k upfront fee plus as much as 30% of my salary for one to three years). Otherwise, I would have had to leave the country when I ran out of unemployment days. Even if I found a job in time, unemployment days during first-year OPT are deducted from allowable unemployment days during STEM extension.
The $250 donation is just about one day's pay at my new job, so I am happy to help a nonprofit that helped me so much!"
Asking for Your Support
They thought that all our interns would be glad to do the same. We hope that you see it the same way and that you, too, will make a tax-deductible contribution so that we can continue to pursue our charitable mission and to offer internships to worthy graduates.
This link makes it easy: https://changingthepresent.org/products/intern-tax-deductible-other-contribution-to-support-changing-the-present