National Park Foundation

I just had an experience with them outside of a local home improvement store. I believe in their cause and I wanted to make a donation. They would only accept recurring payments. Right now the immediate future is uncertain. Financially. Electric rates are rising, who knows where gas is going, etc. I could not commit to anything recurring. They would not accept a single one time donation, which sent up a huge red flag. It felt like they were collecting information and I abandoned ship. The people were cool, I was comfortable with them, but when we got to that point I was uncomfortable giving my debit card information. If you're legit, you take what you can get. It's unfortunate that I was unable to participate.

The Foundation is sending out teams of its employees to solicit at grocery stores and other locations. They are poorly trained and a disruptive presence. One woman in front of the Quail Street King Soopers in Lakewood, Colorado acted just like an agressive panhandler. She waved her hands in my face, brought me to a dead stop, pretended to know me, then said "just kidding." Notify the NPF of the problem? There is no one in charge in the Rocky Mountain region for this ill-considered promotional campaign and the single person answering the Washington DC headquarters phone retorts "consider my position," when essentially telling me to pound sand when it comes to alerting a manager that the Lakewood team is counter-productive.

With the current White House devastating the National Park Service, supporting NPF has never been more important!