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Jan. 7th, 2005 10:40 amSo this morning I got a phone call from the Dove Foundation, which amazed me. I signed up for the National Do Not Call Registry and I haven't been getting huge numbers of phone calls from marketing people. According to the government, I've been on the DNC Registry since 5/20/2004. The government's web page on the subject says that telemarketers are required to respect my wishes on this subject after I've been listed for thirty days. ("...[C]alls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors" are still permitted.)
The fatuous fuckers at The Dove Foundation, who promote "family-friendly" entertainment, do not appear to be paying any attention to the DNC registry. They are a nonprofit, but I don't know that nonprofit status makes them a charity. Their webpage also doesn't say that they're a charity. You'd think they'd have that in big print in the "About Us" section, but they don't. The Grand Rapids (where they're based) Better Business Bureau, however, has this to say about them. *sigh* Apparently they're a 501 (c) (3) charity. Geez. Who knew? I thought charitable meant they had to help the poor or the sick or the halt or the lame or whatever. Turns out no. A charity is a "any nonprofit organization that is incorporated and identified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization" (source: http://www.justgive.org/html/don_info/tax.html). It's got not a whole lot to do with helping people and more to do with what the IRS thinks.
If The Dove Foundation really is a charitable organization, and it appears to be, it's fucking well allowed to call my house. Them's the rules, whether or not I like them. However, there is absolutely no law anywhere that says I have to extend basic human decency to people who intrude on my time and to try to sell me things by calling me before noon. Go ahead, ya'll. Call me back. Oh, do.
The fatuous fuckers at The Dove Foundation, who promote "family-friendly" entertainment, do not appear to be paying any attention to the DNC registry. They are a nonprofit, but I don't know that nonprofit status makes them a charity. Their webpage also doesn't say that they're a charity. You'd think they'd have that in big print in the "About Us" section, but they don't. The Grand Rapids (where they're based) Better Business Bureau, however, has this to say about them. *sigh* Apparently they're a 501 (c) (3) charity. Geez. Who knew? I thought charitable meant they had to help the poor or the sick or the halt or the lame or whatever. Turns out no. A charity is a "any nonprofit organization that is incorporated and identified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization" (source: http://www.justgive.org/html/don_info/tax.html). It's got not a whole lot to do with helping people and more to do with what the IRS thinks.
If The Dove Foundation really is a charitable organization, and it appears to be, it's fucking well allowed to call my house. Them's the rules, whether or not I like them. However, there is absolutely no law anywhere that says I have to extend basic human decency to people who intrude on my time and to try to sell me things by calling me before noon. Go ahead, ya'll. Call me back. Oh, do.
