A good cause - or cause for annoyance? | csmonitor.com

A good cause - or cause for annoyance? | csmonitor.com: "A good cause - or cause for annoyance?

By Jeremiah Hall | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

SAN FRANCISCO � Dinners free from telemarketers might seem nostalgic this holiday season. Although more than 58 million households have joined the federal 'Do Not Call Registry,' watchdog groups predict that the volume of telemarketer solicitations will increase during the next six weeks, the traditional giving season.
That's partly because the registry allows some groups, including charities, to keep dialing to ask for donations. It's also partly because some nonprofits have surreptitiously hired for-profit telemarketers to raise funds on their behalf. That practice is controversial because telemarketers often keep the lion's share of the money they raise in the name of the charity."