People often wonder how Catalog Choice pays the bills since our service is free to consumers and merchants. The answer is simple – our service is funded by a series of foundations that support our mission of consumer choice, reducing unwanted mail and providing innovative measures to promote sustainable consumption and production that benefit the environmental.
We would like to take a moment to thank our foundation sponsors the Overbrook Foundation, the Merck Family Fund, the Kendeda Fund, Weeden Foundation and Mead Foundation. Without their support, we never could have developed this innovative service.
We are starting to explore ways to expand our sponsorship program to include Corporate sponsors. In much the same way services like National Public Radio are funded, in part, through the generous support of sponsors, we are considering the addition of corporate sponsors at Catalog Choice. We will not litter the site with banner ads, but rather tastefully include an area on the page that highlights our sponsors.
We would like to hear from you, our loyal blog readers, about your thoughts on an expanded sponsorship program. Any thoughts on who would be good sponsors? Have other ideas that we should consider? The comment string is open. Let us know what you think.
You are providing a very valuable service to help preserve our environment and reduce unnecessary waste. Bravo!
Your efforts are much appreciated.
Thank you so much for this space to cancel unwanted catalogs and hopefully save some of the environment. I just wish some of the catalogs would take heed and stop coming. They just seem to change my customer number and keep sending.
How about asking the US Post Office and postal workers to support you. My local post office is very happy that the amount of my junk mail is greatly reduced.
To the foundations listed above, you really don’t know how much you have helped those consumers that want out of the towers of unwanted mailings. Thank you!
CC.org: on your requests for expanding your sponsorship realm, I think of the paperless media – maybe radio stations across the country would be willing to sponsor you and also spread the word about you – especially early in the day when workers are communting. Maybe, they would be willing to donate free airtime.
Also, I would gladly buy and wear a T-Shirt blazened with Catalog Choice’s info. Proceeds to go toward your aim.
It works — my unwanted catalogs have slowed from a torrent to a trickle!
Thanks to those foundations for making it happen. Now, spread the word to everybody!
I think the corporate sponship idea is a good one. It would be best if you did not allow pop up adds, but stuck with something along the lines of “Sponsored as a public servce by The XYZ Cookie Company – maker of sweets to eat”. It would be ok to link to their website.
Apparently at least one of the social networking sites has become appealing to those of us old enough to be receiving unwanted mail. The site I’m thinking of runs ads that let members do a thumbs up, thumbs down vote on the ad. So even if that site wouldn’t comp you the ad cost, it would be a quick way to see whether that venue would create further interest in CC.org.
Still hopeful that the main one I’ve tried to eliminate will desist. I congratulate you for offering this fine service.
I love your service, however, it seems that for every catalog I opt out of, I get 2 to 3 more that I’ve never seen before. What gives.
Hooray!! Great job.
Judith, So I don’t repeat my long winded blog that I wrote in April 2008 on CC.org’s “Working to Reduce Unwanted Catalogs in Your Mailibox” discussion, you might want to select this subject by clicking April 2008 on the right of this screen under Archives, scroll down to the discussion and at the bottom, click Comments and scroll down a bit. After calling and writing catalogs, actually quite a few catalog reps gave me an education on the exchanging of mail info amongst themselves. August has blessed me with about 5 catalogs compared to 100 per week from Sept 07-Jan08. CC.org is doing great.
CC.org: Under 25,000 to go for that million! Where’s the party going to be????
What a great service and I am so very annoyed with companies that simply will not stop sending catalogs. I will no longer shop with them, EVER, and tell all my friends and family to stop buying from them!