I have no problem when a friend or volunteer who is donating their time contacts me to help support some charitable work that they are involved in. However, when professional fundraisers contact me on my personal phone and give me a bleeding heart story about homeless vets, cancer survivors, families of cops or firemen that died in the line of duty and don’t disclose that they and their company keep 85 percent or more of the money they are asking me to donate, I get upset.

I am contacting my state representatives and asking that they require professional fundraisers to disclose exactly how much of a donation will get to the charity that they are soliciting for.

My most recent experience with these folks was for homeless vets. A whopping 15 percent of any money I would donate would be given to the charity. I had to ask to get them to disclose that information.

Too many gullible and well-intentioned people just say yes and give money. They assume that their $20 or $50 or $100 is all going to help. The manager of the solicitation team told me they only disclose when asked because the law does not require them to disclose. While what they do may be legal, failure to disclose is certainly not moral or ethical.

This law needs to change so these people don’t pocket 85 cents out of every dollar that they manage to con the public out of.