Websites That Ask For Donations - Page 2

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

Unless a donation is being sought for a local teen with huge medical bills or something similar, I donate to the organizations directly.

ScarletDove · ‎07-11-2010

There are specific charities I have supported exclusively for years and a few different each year. A few of the long-term supported have grown and expanded with a huge donor list, so changed over to some smaller organizations where help needed. I donate direct to the charity/organization to which I know where the funds go. Grocer donation request--no; local can/food drives--no, and on and on--I do not know where my donation would go and/or who would receive, so I do not donate when that is the case. I've noticed more charity ads on the radio and websites and ignore.

Wsmom · ‎03-09-2010

At the stores, whether it be at the register or the people standing outside, if you can tell me where it's going, I will donate. I don't want to donate to the homeless or the hungry in LA when I live in No Cal and we have plenty up here I am more than happy to donate to. Same with huge umbrellas, like "children with disabilities". Tell me where it is going; generally they don't know. So I just donate to the specifiic groups I want to donate to, and then on The Day of Giving generally companies match certain charities.

candyagain · ‎04-11-2010

I, too, prefer to donate directly and to local charities. I also almost always give cash to local promotions at the supermarket.

The one that really irritates me though is when I've just spent almost $20 for popcorn and a soda at the movie theatre and the ushers come around asking for donations to some national charity. I say donate some of your profits for 50 cents worth of corn and carbonated water to the charity......

jonbon · ‎03-09-2010

@Tessa Mendoza wrote:
I really don't like it.

I give to a lot of charities of my choice when I can. Don't need to be bombarded with requests, especially at a supermarket when they ask you if you would like to give and you really feel you have to say "yes." I have gotten so annoyed that I have said "no" and they can think of me what they will.

Same thing happened to me with St. Jude's. I started off with one number every month and it morphed up and up till I got annoyed and just stopped my contributions. I get emails from animal chaarities on a daily basis, even if I just gave the day before.

I don't feel this way at all. If I want to donate, I do. If I don't, I just politely decline (I usually say, "Not today"). I have never felt that I had to say yes, and the check out people really don't care. Same with mail solicitations -- I give on the schedule I choose and simply discard any additional mail. For email solicitations, I "unsubscribe" from whatever list it is. For me, it's not very difficult.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

I find it ridiculously easy to ignore such requests.

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Anonymous032819 · ‎03-29-2019

@jonbon wrote:
@Tessa Mendoza wrote:
I really don't like it.

I give to a lot of charities of my choice when I can. Don't need to be bombarded with requests, especially at a supermarket when they ask you if you would like to give and you really feel you have to say "yes." I have gotten so annoyed that I have said "no" and they can think of me what they will.

Same thing happened to me with St. Jude's. I started off with one number every month and it morphed up and up till I got annoyed and just stopped my contributions. I get emails from animal chaarities on a daily basis, even if I just gave the day before.

I don't feel this way at all. If I want to donate, I do. If I don't, I just politely decline (I usually say, "Not today"). I have never felt that I had to say yes, and the check out people really don't care. Same with mail solicitations -- I give on the schedule I choose and simply discard any additional mail. For email solicitations, I "unsubscribe" from whatever list it is. For me, it's not very difficult.