Canada Christian College fund raising

Thank you for the 1800 number. I hope it works to get rid of the calls.
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call the 1800# to get on the "donot call" list!!  You dont have to wait for anyone to talk to, its all done by touchtone.  Just make sure you call from the same number they keep calling...  Its the only way it works.

Just got a call from this number.. Here is information on the Canada Christian College fund.

Interesting"
http://gal-friday.blogspot.com/2010/02/child-emergency-fund-and-eroding.html

Several calls from this number. Never leave a message. I wamt to thank you for the above information about the caller and I will not answer or give a donation to them.

Canada Christian College fund raising would not take no as an answer, laid on the guilt trip. turns out that the fund has been shut down before by revenue canada. not a good place to give money to.

They called my wife, something about Emergency Children's Fund to provide lunches and breakfasts?
A lot of these so called charities give a small percentage to the nominal cause but spend the majority on mansions for themselves and on fundraising through the bothersome Call Centres who keep bugging us.
My strategy is - don't answer 1-800 numbers but if you do get trapped, tell them you don't send money to strangers on the phone.

Goodbye for now... Looks like they'll call back!

You can call 800-379-5661 to get your name on their 'do not call' list.

Called on my cell asking for someone - told them it was the wrong number.  They called back a few hours later but there was no one there when I answered the call.  Suggest you call 310-1000 and report the problem.

March 26/09 20:20 MST
Ryan A. from the Children's Emergency something or other. Requested a dollar a day. Claimed they do not maintain a do not call list. Don't charities have to maintain this list by law?

keeps calling same time everyday. No answer when I pick up. GET LOST WHOMEVER YOU ARE!!

Wanted some money to feed children. Very pushy. Not sure if they were legit.

Thank you for the 800-379-5661 do not call number. I will also try it.

I am on the do not call list but this number repeatedly calls me!

Got a phone call from this number, I answered with a mouthful of spaghetti, "Hello?"
"Hello?"
".....Hello....?" I say again since she didn't hear me.
"Mrs. Smith*?" she asks. This is my last name, but I am not married.
"MRS. Smith?" I ask, clarifying.
She pauses before repeating "Mrs. Smith?"
"There is no Mrs. Smith here," I say.
She hung up at that. I was looking forward to explaining the difference between Miss, Ms and Mrs to the woman.
Still don't know who they are.

Received a call this evening. but did not answer.

Canada Christian College fund raising trying to guilt me into giving them money.

According to the CRA website, they are still registered as a charity, and have been since 2001.

Also, I have a receipt from them, dated May 27.

I did receive about 10 phone calls over the past week from that phone number. I still keep saying the same thing to these individuals. "I do not accept solliciting over the phone." Then he tries to guilt trip you by saying "come on you are not interested in helping hungry children..." He become very forceful. Then I end up hanging up on them because they will not accept no for an answer. I think this is more than collecting or begging for money for an organization over the phone it is harassment...

The Children's Emergency Foundation had their license revoked by CRA on May 09,2009.  Because they had 2 tax shelters under 1 license,a substantial portion of donations went to fundraising and administration, filed inaccurate returns, ect.

this person called me , asking if I remembered him
and asked if my parents were home !
I didn't know what to say , I was in shock .
Number ( 800- 379- 5658 )
He hung up !
Again today , he phoned again
but I never answered.

Called the wrong person. My husband answered and was asked to donate to hot meals in Alberta, however I am the local trustee and he reported there were no such programs here nor had anyone approached the school board. I will follow through tomorrow.

Received a call and the guy on the other end was somewhat... thick. He couldn't tell me who he worked for and just said he had to talk to my husband, then he hung up.

I called the number back and the message pointed me to the Canada Christian College at this number 1-800-379-5661. When you call that number you can press 9 to have your number removed from that companies call list. You have to be calling from the number in question and not have your caller ID blocked.

Don't know if it will do any good... but it was worth a shot.

Received a call at 1:00 pm this date from an individual requesting $ 365.00 for a program to feed the children inthe local school systems.  The call originated from 800-379-5658 which is listed with a firm in Alberta.  My local area is in Nova Scotia and when told that we give locally this guy felt that we were not bing honest with him.  After telling he NO in several different languages and at various voice levels I finally had to hang up to get him to be quite.  Not a pleasant experiance

Canada Christian College fundraiser