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!
At what point does AICR's calls become harassment????
Following is a list of calls:
3 July 2013 # 202-688-0621
1 July 202-888-5126
27 June 202-888-3126
26 June 202-888-0632
25 June 202-688-0621
24 June 202-888-2764
20 June 202-888-2764
Caller ID identifies all as AICR
I too am having many calls from AICR. This happens at all times of day. They will stop calling for a day or so and then back full force again. We live in an area that is mostly apts. People come and go every day. I have explained this but to no avail. We too have charities we support but this charity is leaving a bad taste with us. Do they ever think what situations we are in when calling at all times of day? Something needs to be done about this.
Learned long ago that donating to American Cancer Society was a mistake. Started getting mail from every scammer using Cancer in their name. National Cancer Sociey, etc. Got three in one day.
Now it's the daily AICR calls that no one is ever going to answer. Some Children's Cancer thing joined them but no one's gonna be talking to them either.
Learned never donate to any of them - ever. The one year I didn't have time to buy Toys for Tots and sent them a check says it all. I was getting mail in January to join their Christmas Club and, although I have made anonymous contributions for several years since, I still get refrigerator magnets and other junk funded by those cash contributions.
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!