you could see it as manipulative, but you could see it as taking advantage of an opportunity to increase the help to can bring to some cause you care about. concentrate on those.

I on.y care about how well the charity uses the money it raises to serve genuine human needs. So long as their tactics are honest, I do not care what their tactics are. If their tract

I don't think threatening to withhold money if I don't donate is a very charitable attitude, attempts to guilt trip me into giving kinda suck.

Yes, a matching pledge does make me more likely to donate. I have conflicting feelings about this, though.