R.I. nonprofit adopts novel idea to prevent brain drain | Articles | India New England

R.I. nonprofit adopts novel idea to prevent brain drain | Articles | India New England: "Funding comes from individual donors and community organizations. Adopt a Doctor solicits commitments from donors to sponsor, or adopt, a doctor by contributing $100 annually for a period of seven years; the goal is to line up 12 donors per doctor. The organization also accepts single-payment donations.

“It’s such a simple concept — we pay them $100 a month — yet it works so well,” Kumar said. “That’s not a lot of money to people living in the United States, but to the doctors that we’re sponsoring, it’s double or even triple their monthly incomes.”

Adopt a Doctor redistributes 100 percent of the donations it receives to the doctors it sponsors; it solicits separate contributions to cover its administrative expenses from large corporations."