Why I no longer support March Of Dimes

I did the math, folks..

I had committed myself to donate $25 a year to March Of Dimes and have been doing itMarch every year. Maybe that's not a lot but when you consider that I also support the Autism Society, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts and my local school fundraisers, I have to have a set amount.

I have a nephew who was born premature and I know a few people who had late miscarriages, so I did it to honor them and hopefully save babies. But I realized that after all the mailings with cute little address labels and free magnetic notepads and calendars and dozens of paid telemarketer phone calls asking me to contribute or do the Walk America or help with a letter campaign, I am pretty much just paying them to hassle me.

In my opinion, they are spending way too much money to market to the wrong people (those of us who already support them!) A few times in the past when they have called, I told them "I'll send my gift of $25 in March as usual, you don't need to call me about it" but they don't seem to listen and they call and send mailings and call some more. I will have to find another way to help science save these young lives.