Charities are exempt from the Do Not Call rules. They are supposed to stop calling if you ask but that may take a cease and desist letter sent Certified Mail, Return Receipt. Even then it may only stop until next year as they probably start fresh and don't carry over their internal DNC list year to year.
I have three different numbers on my ID where they have called. I know it's ACR....I did send out cards one time for them and now they won't quit calling. This goes on for months!
They've started again. They want you to send fund-raising letters to your neighbors. Will send you the printed-out letters with some inserts, a bunch of envelopes, AND a database print-out of your neighbors' names, addresses, and phone numbers! Then they want you to send all the checks they send you (ha ha) to their central address. If you don't do it, they follow up with you.
We have a cancer survivor here and they tried it once a few years ago. We tried sending the letters. Got one donation! They tried it again last year. I ignored the calls but they were so persistant, the one who had cancer here agreed to do it again. After looking their mailing over, he decided to just send a donation himself and not bother the neighbors.
Now they're doing it again. They'll call every day from different phone numbers and caller IDs. I refused last year, but they still called. It wasn't me who they'd listen to, it was the guy who had cancer. Caller ID varies: AICR, American Institute of Cancer Research, and others.
The idea that they send you your neighbors' names, addresses, and phones is CREEPY!
The AICR call and phone number of the day. It's Thursday and their 4th call using a different number so far this week. No matter that my number is a Do Not Call listing. I suggest all funding for FCC do not call program be halted and an alternative to block calls based on this type of communication. It seems everyone knows who the offenders are. I suppose being or spoofing a nonprofit is the AICR excuse. Not that it makes any real difference. Goggle 'stop tom' for more do not call results.