Without donations most Non Profits would not be able to provide their services to the community.  Google recognizes this and is doing their part help.  They are offering Google Donate, part of Google Checkout, with no fee transactions through until 2009.

Adding Google Donate your web site is very easy.  Google also makes it very easy for the your non profit to verify their status and begin collection donations with no fees.  What does mean?  You can now accept credit cards for donations and not have to pay any setup fees or transactions fees.  Google is offering free processing through December 31, 2008. 

If where to setup a credit card donation section on you web site you would need to obtain a merchant account.  Have someone build the application, and buy a SSL certificate.  With Google Checkout you only have to copy and paste their code into any page you want.  If you group has bloggers with their own blogs you can ask them to display your Google Donate button. 

Set is simple:

Go to https://checkout.google.com/seller/npo/ and read all the details.