How many years of “no response” did it take before they took your name address off of the list?

Great idea, but I imagine the more entrepreneurial charities would find your address from your name. It’s a tricky one because it’s nice to get the tax deduction that comes with giving (and if you give all cash, there’s some uncertainty that the money may be going where it should be). I recommend UNICEF for sure. They…

When you go in to donate blood you can ask the nurses to NOT add your phone number (I’d rather be a “walk-in” so the calls for appointments are useless). Generally, the Red Cross does respect this, and has stopped calling (I know because they stopped calling the fake number that I was using and still could…

After the tactics that I’ve experienced from your kind of charity, I am not making ANY more donations in the future — unless they’re in cash, with NO return address (and the cash donations will be lower than the ones I made before — may even be the kind that jingles). It doesn’t sound as though that I’m the only one…

I have a hard time saying “No” to people, and I really don’t like that negative energy that it brings. But I can’t afford to make the donations anymore (am almost in debt because of them). It is disgusting what some of these charities do.

I wrote notes to them asking them to stop (because I make donations online, and I also recycle and would rather their resources be spent on helping people) and got the same result: my info sold, then more and more mail. Somehow it makes me feel better that this wasn’t just me that this happened to (but it also makes…

They don’t care about you. They just want the money. Basically you are just an A.T.M. to them. Remember that.