Firefighters Association wanting donations. Polite but pretty high pressure. They only guarantee 11% of your donation goes to this organization. I suppose it could be more but that doesn't sound very efficient.
I searched Charity Navigator, but could not find any association of the phone number 412-253-2145 with Firefighters Charitable Foundation. Could you tell us where you found the information? If what you told us is true, Firefighters Charitable Foundation had entered a Consent Agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Charitable Organizations on July 13, 2011, settling a matter in which it admitted to violating one or more provisions of the Pennsylvania Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes Act, 10 P. S. § 162.1 et seq ., and agreed to pay an appropriate administrative fine, according to the department's website on Charities > Enforcement and Disciplinary Actions page.
Called here on both the 19h and again today. ID said Local Call Area with this number. No message left on the 19th and usually I don't never even bother to pickup on unknown numbers but today I just picked it up and hung up immediately. Will not contribute to any telephone solicitors - regardless if they claim to be a charitable organization or not.
412-253-2145 has called here more than once, but does not respond to an ans machine . Since I have no idea of who this is, I generally do not pick up. I also will 'pick up' and hang up if this continues, giving them the idea that the number is not working and is a waste of their time. Seems like DNC lists don't apply here. The 412 is def a Pittsburgh area code...I live four hours from PIT. Tired of annoying calls.