They might be a good deal for donors, but there still are a lot of questions to ask.

By Kimberly Seville

Inevitable when we live in a world where coffee cups have caution warnings. But in the interest of building rapport with donors, it feels more like, “Warning: The relationship you are about to enter into is not extremely hot!”

The Wilderness Society and Humane Society of the United States didn’t offer me anything in addition to the affinity card itself, under the same terms as all the others. But HSUS did include my choice of cards, either with a four-color image of puppies or one with kittens. None of the others gave that option.