Response to the blog post from “The Telegraph”
The amount of money donated to charities dropped for 20% from last year and unsurprisingly they become more active in requesting for donation from people. However, heavy taxes are also pressuring potential donors and left them with lesser disposable income. Therefore, it is understandable that some people might be reluctant to make donations even though they had been regularly donating for years. But nowadays charities keep track of people who made donations before and even frequently give these people home-calls to ask for further donations.
To me, this kind of action is not acceptable as most people feel hard to say no to requests from charities even the donations are volunteered, like Judith Woods said, “under politely persuasive pressure”, as long as they are not lacking enough capital to make a living. Undoubtedly, marketers for charities are allowed to try their best to persuade people to make donations, but calling to people’s home is really on the edge of violating their privacy. People may not like this behavior while being too kind to say it, and potentially be annoyed to make any further donations. In my opinion, if the detailed use of money is thoroughly planned out and the objective is clear and determined, the government is always the best place to go to, instead of people who already fulfilled their social responsibility through being employed and paying taxes.
External blog: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/judithwoods/100189330/charity-begins-at-my-home/