"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "graham" > wrote in message
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>> After contributing to the cancer fund for many years (I was diagnosed 18
>> years ago) I got fed up with their constant demands. After making a
>> significant donation mid-year, I received a request for more a few weeks
>> later. Then in September I received a calendar with the request that I
>> pay $200 for it. That was the last straw and I immediately told them to
>> take me off the mailing list.
>> The CEO of that charity makes $300k+ !!!!
>> Now with the recession in Calgary, my younger son is finding it tough so
>> charity now begins at home!
>> Graham
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> Yes, it's sad that after you contribute a few times, they hound you to
> death. Same with PBS, geez, neverending.

Some years back a long time poster from the diabetes newsgroup died. He used
to joke that he had diabetic hummingbirds. Anyway... His wife had requested
donations to the ADA. I donated and they were on me like white on rice. Then
we moved to another state and they seemed not to know that. Heh.