Donating To Charity

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

There are charities that I support, but once I donate, there are endless requests from those charities.

I don't want my donations spent on mailings nor on salaries for excess staff.

cody2 · ‎03-19-2010

I have a few core charities that I support. But writing a check to them is like tossing a boomerang. I get another request for a donation in return mail.

wilma · ‎03-13-2010

@occasionalrain

@cody2

Same thing happens to us. We get lots of charitable mailings. That's the bulk of our USPS mail these days. We give to some and then we get more requests in the mail.

Spurt · ‎03-20-2010

Search for The Charity Navigator website which shows charity metrics for an organization. For example what a charity spends on mailings/fund raising and what a charity's Administer makes under Financial Metrics data and there's other important financial info too just scroll down the page. I usually send charities an email telling them not to add me to future mailing lists and do not share my info with other charities either. Let me chose when and if to send a donation

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Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

It seems like this year charities especially are more needy than ever. Everywhere you turn, somebody has their hand out. The bulk of my mail is charitable requests.

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ThinkingOutLoud · ‎05-01-2020

Once again, I'm reminded why I support the charity I do. Never any mailings, additional requests or overhead. They also regularly report on the myriad of ways the donations are helping around the world. =)

nambee · ‎05-08-2022

I was just thinking the same thing. I have several charities that I routinely send a substantial donation to once a year. I have been donating to them for at least 20 years - always just once a year. But in the past few years, I receive numerous requests from these charities for donations throughout the year and often receive one soon after I send in my annual donation. Very annoying, to say the least, and has me rethinking if I will continue to support them in the future.

In addition to repeated requests from these charities, it's obvious that they sell lists of their donors to other charities as I now receive requests from charities servicing similar needs. And these keep coming as nauseum.

My last complaint is that many like to send self-stick personalized address labels. I use very little snail mail and have no need for them. They cannot be run through the shredder as the adhesive gums up the mechanism so are a pain to dispose of. Not happy!

Susan345 · ‎08-19-2019

The charities that annoy me the most are those who start sending me stuff like cards and note paper or address labels. If they can pay for that they don't need my money.

Most i don't even bother to open I just toss them in the trash.

My favorite sends me nothing but a thank you note.

Catastrophe · ‎04-30-2015

What I do if they have a prepaid envelope included I write on the form included to please remove me from their mailing list and put it back in the mail.