Guidestar reports that beginning August 1, 2006, nonprofit organizations sending unsolicited fax advertisements must comply with several new rules, including the following:

• The organization must have an existing business relationship with the recipient or express written permission from the recipient to receive unsolicited fax ads.
• The fax must identify the telephone number of the sending fax machine or the organization sending the fax.
• The fax must contain an opt-out notice on the first page transmitted.
• The organization must honor a recipient’s request to opt-out within the shortest reasonable time from the date of request, not to exceed 30 days.

Click here for the Final Rule adopted by the Federal Communications Commission.

Read the Guidestar article here.

Read Independent Sector’s summary of the Final Rule here.