Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Newsday.com: Charity is lagging close to home

Newsday.com: Charity is lagging close to home: "Charity is lagging close to home
Donations for LI's poor are not flowing as they did for disaster victims; let's count our blessings - and share


BY THOMAS W. GOODHUE
The Rev. Thomas W. Goodhue is executive director of the Long Island Council of Churches.

November 22, 2005

Americans responded generously to victims of the tsunami in Asia last December, recent earthquakes in India and Pakistan, and Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

Sadly, though, many of us are giving less to Long Island charities that help the poor closer to home."

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