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The Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project is an online Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project which makes available $20,000.00 to be granted to non profit organizations which are intended to improve communities through an online, democratic voting process. The Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project is open to non-profit organizations (which have a maximum of $5 million in annual revenue) (see Section 1 below for more eligibility requirements).
During each Monthly Application Period, Hedley & Co., PLLC intends to introduce an open enrollment when a qualifying charity may submit its application online at www.hedleycpa.com.
For good and valuable consideration (including, without limitation, the possibility of publicity using your name and application information), the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Participant (as defined below) is submitting certain idea(s), design(s), concept(s), communication(s) and/or material(s) (the “Application”) for the benefit of Hedley & Co., PLLC (the “Sponsor”) upon the following express understandings and conditions.
BEFORE YOU SUBMIT AN APPLICATION, READ THESE OFFICIAL APPLICATION GUIDELINES. YOU MUST SIGNIFY YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE OFFICIAL APPLICATION GUIDELINES BY CLICKING THE CHECKBOX WHERE INDICATED.
BY PARTICIPATING IN THIS HEDLEY & CO., PLLC 20TH ANNIVERSARY CHARITY PROJECT, YOU AGREE TO THE SPONSOR’S PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS & CONDITIONS, AVAILABLE AT THE HEDLEY & CO., PLLC 20TH ANNIVERSARY CHARITY PROJECT WEBSITE WWW.HEDLEYCPA.COM, AND THAT YOUR ENTRY AND THE PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM YOU IN CONNECTION WITH THIS HEDLEY & CO., PLLC 20TH ANNIVERSARY CHARITY PROJECT WILL BE SHARED WITH SPONSOR AND/OR ITS DESIGNATED AGENT(S) AND THAT YOU MAY BE CONTACTED BY THE SPONSOR AND/OR ITS DESIGNATED AGENT(S) IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEDLEY & CO., PLLC 20TH ANNIVERSARY CHARITY PROJECT. YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED FOR MARKETING PURPOSES.
1. Eligibility. The Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project is open to non-profit organizations (“PARTY”) The PARTY must be an existing 501(c)(3) organization at the time of registration for the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project and have a maximum of $5 million in annual revenue. Employees of Hedley & Co., PLLC and its affiliates are eligible to participate but must do so on behalf of an organization and they will be required to divulge their relationship with Hedley & Co., PLLC in their Profile. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to disqualify any individual and any or all of his/her Application(s) and/or votes deemed in Sponsor’s sole and absolute discretion to be (a) tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry or voting process or the operation of the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project or any Sponsor website; (b) violating the Official Application Guidelines; (c) violating the terms of service, conditions of use and/or general rules; or (d) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, harass any other person or act fraudulently in any manner. Sponsor also reserves the right to cancel any Charitable Contribution or other payment and to take any further action it desires if Sponsor determines, in their sole discretion, that Participant engaged or participated in any fraudulent activity (for example, scheme designed to exploit weaknesses in technology or result in fraudulent votes) at any time during the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Period or during the subsequent to the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project.
Only existing 501(c)(3) non profit organizations with revenue under $5,000,000 located in the following counties in the State of New York are eligible:
2. Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Period. The opportunity to participate in the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project begins 12:00:01 p.m. (Noon) ET on December 27, 2011 (the first date/time you can submit an Application) and ends 11:59:59 p.m. ET on December 30, 2012 (the last time you can vote on an Application) (the “Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Period”). During the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Period, there will be twelve (12) Monthly Application periods during which Applications can be submitted (each an “Application Period”), each followed by a voting period during which Applications submitted during the prior Application Period will be voted on (each a “Voting Period”). A submission and a vote can be made in any given month. No non profit organization is eligible to receive more than one Charitable Contribution or other payment.
Due to the size of some Applications, which may be large and require a significant amount of time to upload depending on the Participant’s service provider as well as the potential volume of other Participants, the time to upload may take longer than anticipated by the Participant. It is recommended that the above be taken into consideration when a Participant is planning to upload their Application as an Application must be fully uploaded by the end of the applicable Application Period to be eligible for consideration for posting for voting for such Application Period.
3. How to Apply. During the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Period, Participants and Voters should go to www.hedleycpa.com (the “Website”) and follow the directions to register a new user profile (“Profile”). If you are a Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Party (as defined above in Section 1), then you must identify yourself as such in your Profile. Limit one (1) Profile per person/email address/ name/address/household per Application Period. Multiple Profiles in the same Application Period will result in both Profiles being disqualified for the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project and the Applications and/or Votes associated with the multiple Profiles will be rejected and/or removed from the Website. Limit one (1) Application per Participant per Profile during the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Period. At the end of each Application Period, all Applications which were posted for Voting during that Application Period will be archived and inaccessible after the end of that Application Period. If a Participant wishes to resubmit their Application, they will have to create a new Profile for the next Application Period, create a new Application or recreate their previous Application and submit the new Application. During any Application Period, duplicate Applications for the same idea for the same organization or same purpose (even if submitted by unique individuals) will result in both Applications being rejected from the Website - - by way of example and not by way of limitation, if two or more Participants submit an Application for the same local community organization, those Applications will be rejected. Likewise if two or more Participants from the same geographic area submit an Application to clean up their local beach, this will be viewed as a duplicate idea and those Applications will be rejected. It is recommended that Participants seeking to submit an Application on behalf of an organization coordinate their submissions to make sure duplicate Applications for the same idea for the same organization are not submitted. Once you have registered your Profile, you (“Participant”) will be able to save and submit an Application for a Grant, which must be in written form To be eligible for consideration for posting for voting, an Application must be submitted through the Website by the end of the respective Application Period, comply with these Official Application Guidelines, including but not limited to those guidelines set forth in Section 8 below, and must include at least the following:
Participants can create their Profile at any time during the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Period. Sponsor will randomly draw Applications from among all Applications which have been received by Sponsor in any applicable Application Period, and those Applications (the “Eligible Selected Applications”) will be eligible for review. If the Eligible Selected Application meets the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Guidelines, it will be posted for Voting in accordance with the timing listed above. If an Application Period has closed, Participants may still save an Application to their Profile for submission into the next Application Period, but such Application cannot be submitted until the following Application Period. NOTE: saving an Application to your Profile does not constitute submitting the Application. Applications that are saved and not submitted during an Application Period will not be automatically submitted into subsequent Application Periods. Rather, Participants will have to log into their Profile and manually submit the Application in the next or a subsequent Application Period before the end of the then-current Application Period. Once you submit your Application, you will not be able to make changes to your Application.
Each Application Period is followed by a Voting Period corresponding to such Application Period. At the end of each Voting Period, it is anticipated that Sponsor will award one charitable contribution or payment in the amount of $1,000 for each of the first nine (9) months and then two $1,000 charitable contributions or payments in the tenth month; then four $1,000 charitable contributions or payments in the eleventh month and then five $1,000 charitable contributions or payments in the twelfth month. Payments are estimated to be presented the month following their selection.
All Applications, including but not limited to, designs, ideas, concepts and communications, shall be owned solely by Participant who shall have sole liability for all third party claims relating to or regarding the content of their Application. All Applications will be reviewed for compliance with these Official Application Guidelines before being posted to the Website for voting as set forth in the Application Entry Table above; however, such review does not relieve Participant from responsibility for compliance with these Official Application Guidelines. Participants and Applications that do not comply with these Official Application Guidelines or that otherwise contain prohibited or inappropriate content as determined by the Sponsor, in its sole and absolute discretion, may be disqualified at any time and will then not be posted for voting for the applicable Voting Period. Sponsor (and/or its designated agent(s)), in its sole and absolute discretion, makes the final determination as to which Participants and Applications are accepted and are eligible to take part in this Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project and be considered for inclusion as an Eligible Selected Application, for inclusion in the Voting Period, on the Website and/or be eligible to receive a charitable contribution or other payment. From time to time during the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Period, Sponsor may, in its sole and absolute discretion, choose to feature certain recent Participants and Applications on the Website and/or in advertising materials. Being featured on the Website and/or in advertising materials in no way impacts the likelihood of success of the Participant becoming an Eligible Grant Recipient in the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project nor does the inclusion of the Application on the Website and/or in advertising materials indicate that Sponsor deems the Application to be a good example of an Application, nor does it indicate Sponsor’s preference for/endorsement of the Application and/or the subject matter of the Application.
4. Contributions or other payments available. During Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project Period, the Sponsor will award contributions as follows:
If during any Application Period, there is an insufficient number of Applications posted for Voting, the number of awards will be reduced accordingly.
5. Voting. Each Application Period is followed by a Voting Period. Individuals who are only interested in registering on the Website in order to vote (as defined below) will be required to follow the directions on the Website to register as a Voter. During the Voting Periods listed in the Application Entry Table above in Section 2, an individual who has registered on the Website to vote for the Applications they think should receive awards will be allowed one (1) vote (each a “Vote”) each Voting Period. Limit one (1) registration per person/email address/name/address/household regardless whether you are registering as a Voter or as a Participant. At the end of each day of a Voting Period, any of the un-used Votes allotted to any Voter or Participant will become void and will not roll over to the next day.
Sponsor may allow various off-site methods of voting for an Application, including but not limited to mobile, widgets, media (by way of example and not by way of limitation, voting through a cell phone). Sponsor recommends that before a Voter or Participant chooses an Application to vote on, they visit the Website and review the Profile of the Participant for that Application to get more information about the Participant and their Application.
Once each Voting Period has ended, the respective Participants responsible for the appropriate number of Applications in each Award Level with the highest number of Votes will each be deemed an Eligible Grant Recipient, subject to final approval by Hedley & Co., PLLC selection committee. If there is a tie among the Applications after a Voting Period has ended, Sponsor (and/or its designated agent), in its sole and absolute discretion, will review the tied Applications and will break the tie. Sponsor is under no obligation to review or consider the similarity of other Applications in determining whether or not to accept an Application. Sponsor’s decisions, in its sole and absolute discretion, are final and binding in all matters relating to the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project.
All Eligible Recipients will be required to complete an award acceptance package, which, among other things, will require the Eligible Recipient to coordinate with Hedley & Co., PLLC to accept and receive the award at a time and place as determined by the Sponsor. No substitution of an award is offered, except at the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor. The Awards are non-transferable. If there are an insufficient number of accepted Applications for a particular Application Period, then the number of contributions awarded for that Application Period would be reduced to include only those Applications which are accepted under these Official Application Guidelines to receive an award.
7. Taxes. There may be some tax implications for Grant Recipient. Sponsor recommends that Participants review their Application with their legal/tax advisor to determine their potential tax liability, if any, in connection with receiving a Grant as part of this Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project. If there is any tax liability, it will be the sole responsibility of Grant Recipient.
8. Application Content Guidelines.
a. Applications MUST:
· be in English;
· be received in accordance with the Application Entry Table in Section 2 above;
· describe a project to be carried out for charitable, community or educational purposes within one of the Categories of the Hedley & Co., PLLC 20th Anniversary Charity Project;
9. The funds awarded are to be used in any of the following NY counties:
1. Saratoga
2. Schenectady
3. Albany
4. Warren
5. Rensselaer