I understand where you're coming from. If someone does want to donate to a charity, make sure you do it as anonymously as possible! Never provide any kind of legitimate contact information or they will hound you like a swarm of mosquitoes.
I ran into this problem with Habitat for Humanity. Before Caller ID and when answering machines recorded on tape, a caller would call every day at about the same time and hang up at a point where my answering machine would run the tape to the end with nothing on it, preventing any legitimate callers from leaving a message. One day I was home from work early and at the time of the mystery calls the phone rang - it was Habitat for Humanity who I had donated to just a couple of weeks earlier. I made it clear that their calls were unwelcome, and lo and behold the "mystery calls" stopped.
NEVER give any charity your contact information! They will hound you day in and day out!
Same as most people above -- American Institute For Cancer Research. I Googled them and they have a legitimate looking website, but I'm not about to give money and become what is known as a "responder" in the world of telemarketing. We all know where that leads, they'll sell my name and number and then I'll get calls from every charity this side of the international date line. They'll stop calling after a while. They always do.
I constantly get calls from this number, tell them repeatedly we are on the "do not call" list and not to call back, its annoying and frustrating if you try and return number its disconnected or no longer in service.
Do yourself a favor. Go to the DNC gov website, and READ, REALLY READ...
You will find that Poltical organizations and NONprofits are EXEMPT (yes EXEMPT) from DNC lists....
So they CAN and WILL call you, even if your phone numbers are on the DNC list...
PLAIN and SIMPLE.. Please everybody posting and complaining about Non-profits and other exempt from abiding by the DNC call list...STOP posting and NOW the RULES and EXEMPTIONS... Stop wasting YOUR time, by posting here.
Yep I know it sucks that the DNC list has exemptions, but what did you expect from the FOXES that guard the HEN house, making the rules???
we live in area code 828 and is on the do not call list also. we don't answer the phone, but they call at least every other day for about a week now. I'm guessing by the above comments, they are gearing for their fund drive. hang in there, don't answer, it'll go away once their fund raiser is over...I'm guessing October.