The Schwab Charitable website is very well set up and it’s actually a pleasure to use it.
It’s much easier to do it that way than for me to go directly to the charities. It’s just much more convenient to do it on your website.
You just click to do it, don’t have to write checks, don’t have to write envelopes. And usually what I do is toward the end the year I donate to several charities at one time. And so it’s just sitting down and doing it for a half an hour or an hour – it’s much quicker than if I were to do it manually to each charity. And I’ve got a nice accounting of it also. After I’ve done it, I can look at my Schwab Charitable account and what’s been done this year, what was done last year is all there.
Oh and another thing that makes it very convenient is the past donations, and addresses is all in the account so I don’t have to re-enter them. It’s just very simple.
It’s a very well thought out site, especially once you establish a base of charities that you like to give to. Once you’ve got that entered it’s just a matter of, if you want to make an additional contribution in the following year, it’s just very simple to just click on it and put in the amount and done. It’s just very convenient and very easy to use.