Nice to hear from you, Chainmail.
Ugh. That is the thing I despise these days about being charitable, is that you get punished for doing so by the people you donate to. And they all do it, although I will say, Fischer House is the only one I don’t get these things from, which makes me want to donate further to them. (Not to mention the unbelievably generous and no-strings-attached way they treated veterans at Walter Reed during GWII, something I was privileged to both participate in and be invited to see with my own eyes)
I understand why many charitable organizations think they should harass donors. I just hate that they do it. It isn’t that people “forget” they gave money them, that doesn’t happen. But they treat you as if you did.
I gave money last year to Project Veritas, I just had to, after watching their expose of CNN when they somehow got the number of their weekly status call with the CNN “leadership” that included Jeff Zucker. It so hilariously revealed the scumbaggery at the corporate levels of CNN that I very nearly donated on the spot.
But since then, I must have received hundreds of emails and mailings for more money.
It is discouraging. I gave money with the caveat that I did not want to be included in email spamming or junk mailing, but...that was like spitting in the wind.
Once they get money from you, they double the email spamming and junk mailing.