Then the caller explains that he's a professional fundraiser, and tells you that before he asks for your contribution, he must inform you that for every $25 you contribute, $5 will go to the charity, and the remaining $20 will go to cover fundraising expenses, such as the cost of the phone calls and the cost to pay his hourly wage, all of which has been agreed to by the charity.
Then he says "Can I count on you for a $25, $50, or $100 contribution?" How much do you tell the caller that you will agree to contribute?
No. When a caller announces he's a paid solicitor I inform him I will not contribute to his salary and hang up.
I do all my donations either first hand or by mail and always to organizations I've donated to before. I don't respond to telemarketing requests unless I'm familiar with the cause and they are using volunteer callers. Even then I ask them to send me a pledge card instead of giving out my credit card info.
$0.
I carefully vet the organizations that I donate to in order to make sure their overhead costs are kept low so that I know that most of the money I send them is going to the charity. I never pledge over the phone to unsolicited calls. I don't even pledge over the phone to charities I've vetted. I only donate through the mail or their website & I contact them. they don't contact me. & if they harass me, I stop donating to them
I would contribute nothing. When I donate I do it anonymously as once the charity have your name they keep pestering you with more phone calls and mail shots asking for more money.
Probably not. Most fund raising organizations use their money to pay salaries of their officers.
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no I will not
