My Nonprofit Reviews
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Review for St Labre Indian School Educational Association, Ashland, MT, USA
My father in law recently passed away, and his mail was forwarded to our home. We started receiving solicitations addressed to him from the St. Labre School almost immediately. They were always accompanied by gifts such as wrapping paper, dream catchers, address labels, greeting cards and the like. I had a "form letter" typed up to inform anybody of his death, and I began to return their solicitations (in their postage paid envelope) letting them know not to expect anything. The solicitations kept coming. I called the 800 number twice and had his name removed from their mailing lists. Both times I was told that they printed up their mailings in advance, and in about 6 weeks the letters would stop. They keep coming. I have to wonder how serious they are about helping the poor Indian kids when they spend a lot of cash mailing gifts to dead people. All of the other charities I contacted thanked me and the letters stopped. Not the Labre School. . .
I am sorry to hear that this happened. St. Labre has to rely on direct mail donations and since our average donor can only give a small amount compared to other larger organizations, we have to rely on a large volume of mail to fund our programs. This also means that our limited staff that handles this mail(all located at the campus in Ashland, MT) are not able to process requests in a timely manner. This unfortunate circumstance is certainly not the fault of our donors, and we apologize for situations like this that arise. Please know that we try to do everything in our power to limit this and will make our best efforts to remedy situations such as this when possible.
