Dear Abby: Can I stop charities from sharing or selling my donor information?
A longtime donor to two children's cancer research hospital charities says fundraising requests have surged — from a few a year to seven a day — and asks whether nonprofits share or sell donor information and how to be removed from mailing lists.
Dear Abby: Do charities and nonprofits share or sell donor information? For years, maybe decades, I’ve made quarterly contributions to two well-known charities for children’s cancer research hospitals, and I truly believe in what they do. However, over the last few years, I have started receiving an increasing number of requests for money.