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!
HAVE NO IDEA WHY THEY CALL MY NUMBER
WHY CALL ON SUNDAY
PLEASE REMOVE NUMBER FROM YOUR CALLING
DO NOT I REPEAT CALL ON SUNDAY DO NOT CALL ANYTIME, I AM TURNING NUMBER OVER TO FCC MONDAY (TOMORROW)
I *67 them and what I got as a message was "American Institute for Cancer Research".Whether this is legit or not,they do not leave a message just their little sound bit of dead air noise
07-14-09: 4:10 p.m. Again, received a call from this number but no
message and if I do pick up the phone when called, there is no one
on the line. HARRASSMENT!!!!!
This is a automated call that continuously rings the home phone number. Do Not Call list does not work for this phone number. I believe it is something to do with the Cancer Society.