Our Commitment to You the Donor:

Youth With A Mission Commonwealth Ministries (DBA: YWAM Virginia, YWAM Richmond and YWAM Virginia Beach) uses your gifts wisely and efficiently. We always want to be worthy of your trust and confidence.

We accurately acknowledge and generate receipts for all gifts. For a copy of our form 990, simply contact us directly or visit GuideStar online.  Our Federal Tax ID number is 52-1360030.

Per IRS guidelines all contributions to Youth With A Mission Commonwealth Ministries locations are income tax deductible and made with the understanding that Youth With A Mission Commonwealth Ministries has complete discretion and control over the use of all donated funds.

Privacy Policy

Youth With A Mission Commonwealth Ministries does not rent, sell or exchange our contact or donor information.

Youth With A Mission Commonwealth Ministries is highly sensitive to the privacy interests of donors and contacts.  Our mission believes that the protection of those interests is one of its most significant responsibilities. In acknowledgment of its obligations, Youth With A Mission Commonwealth Ministries has adopted the following Privacy Policy applicable to information about consumers that it acquires in the course of its business:

1. Acquisition of Information. We do not acquire any more information about consumers than is required by law or is otherwise necessary to provide a high level of service efficiently and securely.

2. Our Employees and Privacy. We train all of our staff about the importance of privacy. We give access to information about consumers only to those employees who require it to perform their jobs.

3. Security Measures. We make access to privacy-sensitive information subject to rigorous procedural and technological controls, consistent with legal requirements and the demands of customer service.

4. Disclosure to Third Parties. We will provide individually-identifiable information about contacts to third parties only if we are compelled to do so by order of a duly-empowered governmental authority, we have the express permission of the contact, or it is necessary to process transactions and provide our services.

5. Privacy and Our Business Partners. When we make our technology or services available to business partners, we will not share with them any more consumer information than is necessary, and we will make every reasonable effort to assure, by contract or otherwise, that they use our technology and services in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Refund Policy

    1. Individual Team Member: Any individual team member’s deposit and or fees will be fully refundable minus the 3% processing fee up to 30 days prior to their arrival, upon which deposits and or fees will be non-refundable.
    2. Student / Participant Fees: School/Program fees are partially refundable according to the refund policy in the acceptance package given.
    3. Staff Fees: All staff fees are fully refundable minus the 3% processing fee within the first 30 days of initial processing, which after all fees will be non-refundable.
    4. Donations: All donations are subject to IRS rules. All donations are fully refundable minus the 3% processing fee within the first 30 days of initial processing, which after all donations will be non-refundable.
    5. Emergency Refund Requests: Any refund requested due to emergency outside of the refundable time period will be reviewed and handled on a case by case basis. The approval or disapproval of such a request will be solely up to Youth With A Mission Virginia’s assessment of the situation, and once determined may not be contested.

References payments cannot be taken from OFAC restricted countries (Myanmar, Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria), any attempt to do so will be declined.