To: Retail websites, Environmental groups, and fundraisers
Fundraisers, clean up you contact lists!
Using contact preference information given by donors would be a best practice for all causes (and businesses) Stop wasting small donations by sending unwanted (or specifically declined) print and phone follow-up. It's annoying, wastes a portion of the donation, and creates a recycling task. It's totally un-green.
This could be a consolidation of the "do not call list" and the "please, take me off your phone list" MADE BY YOUR CONSTITUENCY, YOUR DONOR BASE, OR YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Make it easy for people to indicate their preferred contact method and then honor those requests.
Why is this important?
I'd like to believe my small donations help make a difference, but it's hard when the same causes spend more than the amount of the donation soliciting (slap to head) another donation.
The tally of causes I no longer support GROWS because there is no indication of good stewardship of my contribution.