LIFE GIVING MOMENTS

At 8:30 AM today I got their call, and "Amanda" asked to speak to "Suzanne" -- me.  Then she said she had four questions to ask me about entertainment for my children or grandchildren (so she had some idea of my age as well).  I have no patience with this cr-p, so I said "I have no children; I have cats.  If you do a survey about cats, call me back" and hung up.  On Monday I'm going to call the number of the New Mexico Secretary of State, shown on the web site so kindly provided below, and ask them what's going on and why is this entity still in "good standing?"

If you're talking about a BBB rating, this link will explain everything: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau ... ory?id=12123843

i agree and the regulating bodies need to pay  more attention to the individual claims rather than waiting for them to queue up before doing anything.

Found an interesting article about Amanda from Life Giving Moments: http://museumfatigue.org/2014/01/14/amanda-computerized-telemarketer/

She is indeed a robot, but a pretty good one that has apparantly fooled a lot of people into thinking it was human.

"It's no coincidence  the telemarketing\charity fraud industry attracts sociopaths like fleas to a lazy dog.

Ted, where you at? This needs to be repeated!

Same here. Asked for my son by name. He died in 2004.

If you Google this organization, LiveGivingMoments, especially its business listing, you find that it is lead by Ann Church, whose LinkedIn profile shows the following.  Notice that she's a non-profit, which probably means she can call us as much as she wants.  And notice that the calls are coming from the Philippines.  The Phoenix number is spoofed.

Ann Church
President at Life Giving Moments
Santa Fe, New Mexico (Santa Fe, New Mexico Area) Nonprofit Organization Management

Oversee 25 employees in Cebu Philippines, who are collecting information based on concerns of parents and grandparents in relation to children’s online living
•    Established a branch office in Cebu with corporate registration with the Philippine SEC which complies with all Philippine legal and corporate requirements
•    Analyze data on call results to understand the concerns of parents and grandparents about online and all media usage by children
•    Prepare data for use by organizations that work with the industry and government regarding media and internet protection for minors
•    Responsible for daily accounting and reporting of overseas’ operations
•    Create concept and execute website and other online presence with WordPress and specialty themes.


If you participate in the survey, you become part of a list that LifeGIvingMoments will sell to others who will be calling you.  I found this at http://lists.nextmark.com/market?page=order/online/datacard&id=383843


I encourage you to track down Ann Church in Santa Fe (you can find her by googling) and tell her to LEAVE US ALONE!!  We are not interested in her "faux" charity.

Church has been disused here before. In my opinion LGM is listing itself as a charity in order to skirt the law. I have received their calls and based on the threads here, it seems that the calls are some sort of alleged survey (also a loophole in the DNCR). In either case, I do not trust this organization and refuse to entertain them.
Besides I tend not to trust ANY alleged charity that calls. I have dealt with another charity that calls looking for clothing. I have made repeated requests to be added to their do not call lists and they refuse to honor my request. So this adds to the reasons why I don't trust any given charity that calls.

Better to give directly than through a third person-little if any of the money actually gets to the charity with these calling fools!

That is how I feel. I have donated to a veterans organization and they have never called  me.

The American Heart Association are kind of jerks-they called soon after my mother sent in money asking for more-greedy much?

I've noticed that too with other charities.   You send a donation and they send a receipt that also requests yet more money, often with suggested amounts that have been tailored to just exceed your previous donation.   Another interesting thing I've noticed is the address on the included "mo money" envelope.   I always donate directly to the charity itself after determining their direct (to them) mailing address.    The  "further donations"  envelope addresses are never the same.   Give them more using the "convenient" envelope included sends it somewhere else entirely.   Also implies that even if you give directly, the charity informs their professional fundraisers of your donation so they can get in the middle of any further transfers of wealth and get their cut.

No, she sent it in and they called by PHONE asking for more money

Made the mistake of sending $$ to UNICEF.  We have had 3 letters (no calls, thank goodness) begging us to double or triple our donation.  The wallet has closed on that charity.

I don't donate at all unless it's a few bucks in the jar for the place I work (I work with animals). I'll sigh your petition, but I won't be giving you money.