This will be rather short and simple and I am genuinely looking for feedback from the community here.
There are a variety of organizations I like to support. Two good examples would be Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace. My wife and I are far from rich, but we are not impoverished either. When we look at supporting such an organization, we tend to look at the role it plays and look at our finances and make a decision how much we think we can afford to give. This often results in a number well above the minimum "membership" level.
Again, in our minds, we've made a thoughtful choice on how much we can afford to give. And we have other priorities for the rest of our resources - including political candidates we want to support. But it's obvious that the organizations - those two in particular - see it differently. They look at that "above minimum" donation amount and see a person who must be rich and can be hit up for more. So we are subjected to relentless fundraising from them - both in the form of direct mail and phone solicitations. And phone solicitations are especially annoying to me. To the point where we look at the situation and figure that pretty much everything we have given has been spent on the effort to persuade us to give more.
This leaves us increasingly soured on giving at all - but we don't really want to cut them off either. Any thoughts you can share on dealing with this situation would be appreciated! Especially from anyone who might have an insider's viewpoint on that fundraising process.