I received a call request yesterday to assist cancer patients with a donation of $50, $40, $25 or any amount. I asked the very pleasant sounding lady if she was a professional fund raiser and was told, "I'm a paid employee of the Cancer Fund of America." I asked her if my area would benefit from the donation and was told that it was national and would benefit this area based upon need. Basically, I now know that that was an evasion. I asked how much was used for administrative costs and was told something that I accepted as a reasonable answer. I can't recall exactly what the answer was. Bottom line is that she convinced me that their organization was on the up and up and did a great deal to assist hospice patients with supplies that they could not afford. This morning I was making out my check so that it would be ready as soon as the pledge envelope came but somelthing told me to look up their number. That's when I found this site. I've called "Mike" and left message to take my donation off the books as I was not going to send it. Thank you for the information you give here; especially Bob who did all the research!!
