Friday, May 26, 2006

Seeing the Big Picture on Charities - Yahoo! News

Seeing the Big Picture on Charities - Yahoo! News: "Giving to charity has become more challenging for donors in recent years. The U.S. charity sector is much admired abroad, yet here at home it's subject to intense and sometimes painful scrutiny -- both from those within the philanthropic field and from the outside. So much is known about the liabilities and failings of various charities that donors sometimes wonder if it makes sense to give at all.

This is a distressing state of affairs for people who have spent much of their professional lives in the nonprofit sector, as I have. We're acutely aware of the problems, yet we also know how much good is accomplished by charities, and at what sacrifice."

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