Medallion, a professional telemarketing firm calling "on behalf of the Special Olympics PA" soliciting for contributions. Fat chance when such a small percentage of the donation actually goes to the "charity".
The solicitor was obviously in a hurry, not pausing for most punctuation in her script, and getting very confused in a couple of places.
Thanks to my Google Voice, here is a transcript of the conversation:
Me: Hello? Hello?
"Hi, this is Nikki Westmullen and I was calling to thank you for your support on behalf of the Special Olympics PA, first and foremost I want to say thank you through your generosity last year we were able to get over 20,000 athletes out and involved in the program. It's a...it's a record they wouldn't have never set without you personally I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being a part of it. The reason for my call today is, we're trying to get your local area athletes into the 2012 [unintelligible] events, these are the biggest events of the season, unfortunately, they don't receive the proper State or Federal funding that's why Medallion, that's, that's a professional fundraising, fundraising, reaching out to people like yourself [laughs] to make this experience possible. Your support...hello? [background voices] Hi, this is Nikki Westmullen and I was calling to thank you on behalf of the Special Olympics PA, first and foremost I want to say thank you through your generosity last year..."
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Claimed to be calling on behalf of Multiple Sclerosis, described the donor categories and suggested a donation of $50. If not comfortable, could donate less. I asked him if his organization was a compensated donation collector and he said yes. I then asked what per cent of donations actually goes to the charity and he paused many seconds and said he didn't know. I told him he failed and that was the end of the call.
Medallion, a professional telemarketing firm calling "on behalf of the Special Olympics PA" soliciting for contributions. Fat chance when such a small percentage of the donation actually goes to the "charity".
The solicitor was obviously in a hurry, not pausing for most punctuation in her script, and getting very confused in a couple of places.
Thanks to my Google Voice, here is a transcript of the conversation:
Me: Hello? Hello?
"Hi, this is Nikki Westmullen and I was calling to thank you for your support on behalf of the Special Olympics PA, first and foremost I want to say thank you through your generosity last year we were able to get over 20,000 athletes out and involved in the program. It's a...it's a record they wouldn't have never set without you personally I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being a part of it. The reason for my call today is, we're trying to get your local area athletes into the 2012 [unintelligible] events, these are the biggest events of the season, unfortunately, they don't receive the proper State or Federal funding that's why Medallion, that's, that's a professional fundraising, fundraising, reaching out to people like yourself [laughs] to make this experience possible. Your support...hello? [background voices] Hi, this is Nikki Westmullen and I was calling to thank you on behalf of the Special Olympics PA, first and foremost I want to say thank you through your generosity last year..."
If the following Flash player embedded code works, you can listen to the conversation.
Claimed to be calling on behalf of Multiple Sclerosis, described the donor categories and suggested a donation of $50. If not comfortable, could donate less. I asked him if his organization was a compensated donation collector and he said yes. I then asked what per cent of donations actually goes to the charity and he paused many seconds and said he didn't know. I told him he failed and that was the end of the call.