# Why I stopped giving money to NPR...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-stopped-giving-money-to-npr/376229>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 12, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-stopped-giving-money-to-npr/376229 "2006-10-12T19:04:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-stopped-giving-money-to-npr/376229/41 "2012-05-01T16:25:49Z")

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> [@taxi78cab](#):
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> More of the NPR affiliates need to talk to the folks at WAMC in Albany, NY. The fund drive is actually MORE fun than their usual programming, and I’m guessing in no small part because of this, it’s over within a week, usually 5-6 days. I believe they do this 3 times a year.
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> No, it’s not as large a station as some of the others, but that also means the number of listeners and donors is similarly smaller. And yet they still do it that quickly. I miss them.
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> (Yeah, I know some people hate the head guy at WAMC - I’m not leaving out his name to protect his privacy or anything… I just can’t spell it - but you have to admit that he’s a heck of a lot more effective at this stuff than most people.)

His name is Alan Chartock.  
According to [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_S._Chartock) in their June 2010 fund drive they raised $800,000 in seven days.  
Hunting around a little more they conduct three fund drives a year, in February of this year they raised $1,001,835 from 8,674 pledgers in 11 days.  
I believe they basically keep the fund drive going until they reach the goal and then it’s done.

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-stopped-giving-money-to-npr/376229/42 "2012-05-01T19:48:14Z")

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I used to donate to the PBS TV station here. However, I quit doing that when they started calling me on the phone, and would NOT quit calling me, no matter how often I asked them to cut it out. It seems that they have a right to call me if I donate, and that they WILL call me if I donate.

So I don’t donate any more.

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