Annoying or not,the Historica Dominion is a real chartiy.I have donated a couple of times in the past because I like what they are doing.But yes,I also grow weary of telemarketers and people sociliting for donations.I give when I can.That's all.To that end,I bought an answering machine and calll display.I almost never answer if I don't know who is calling.Calls from the USA annoy me the most.I NEVER answer them.
That number is being used for a current Historica-Dominion campaign. It is probably legitimate. The institute is a good one, and well worth supporting in my humble opinion. However, this is probably not the way to do it.
100% of your first donation goes to the telemarketers, 50% for the second, then on a sliding scale down.
Across the entire institute their overhead runs about 12-16% which is fine. But this telemarketing campaign, particularly if you give a single large donation is structured in a not-so-great way, IMHO.
(I phoned the institute and spoke to their national fundraising coordinator, Amy, who kindly provided me with the above information). The opinions expressed above are my own.
Receive a call every day around 5:30pm. do not answer and no msg left. I am going to give info to the local legion and have them report to the area command. Hopefully they can do something about these people.
Called at 9 pm Alberta time - would be 11pm Toronto time. No legitimate organization would do that. There was a woman on the other end who said "I would like to speak to the person in charge of..." at that point I hung up.
left a message on my machine, said "Oooh... it's your answering machine i think...", was 7:30pm so not so bad. kind of a funny message so was trying to find out who called
Professional fund raisers representing the Historical Dominion Institute. After she had gone on and on, I told her that I had this number listed as a professional fund raising firm and related the percentages posted by Holmes Ottawa above. She claimed that the number was a "central number", ignored the question about professional fund raising, broke into a spiel about supporting veterans' widows and orphans (which is not the purpose of the Memory Project), and lamented that people were spreading such misinformation (take that Holmes Ottawa).
The Historical Dominion Institute and its Memory Project are worthwhile charities, but based on Holmes Ottawa's research, donating money through this professional fund raiser is not an efficacious method of supporting it.