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...measures would require hundreds of millions of dollars to educate and equip poor farmers?money that developing countries clearly can ill afford. Officials at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which co-sponsored the Ho Chi Minh City conference, have appealed for international help with little success; wealthy donor nations contributed only $18 million of the $100 million needed last year to combat avian flu in Asia. "Given the size of the problem, that's just glaringly insufficient," says Dr. Samuel Jutzi, director of the FAO's animal production and health division...
DonorsChoose may be a virtual charity, but its effect on children is very real. Every shipment includes a disposable camera and guidelines for writing class thank-you notes. A fifth-grader in the Bronx reduced a regular donor to tears with this note: "No one has ever done anything that nice for me before ... I want to do something nice for you. Just let me know what you need, and I'll take care of it." Vani Khajuria, a North Carolina fourth-grader, wrote her patron, "My children's children's children will treasure this book." Eloquent proof that...
...mince words. Blood donation is a fantastic mitzvah—at nearly no cost to the donor, the recipient receives an incredibly valuable gift—and the American Red Cross is to be commended for making it so easy for Harvard students to donate blood. So if you’re eligible, go to Adams today or tomorrow to donate. But much of campus isn’t eligible, because men who have sex with men (MSM) are not allowed to donate, and this prohibition is patently unfair and increasingly unwise...
...easier jobs and they can spend less money keeping volunteers happy. If the DNC gives state parties more opportunities to fundraise on their own, the parties must get people involved and excited if they’re going to have money to spend. The best way to get a donor to cough up money is to give them a real role in the national party. If Dean gives state parties an incentive to raise their own cash, he is also giving them an incentive to build a true grassroots operation...
Every time a state party finds a donor or a volunteer, they give a voter a sense of ownership in their state Democratic Party. The more state Parties focus on grassroots fundraising, the more they will mobilize local activists. Democrats have had problems with new campaign finance laws because the DNC has relied too heavily on large donations. State parties are more embedded in local communities. They may find those middle-class potential donors that the national party has ignored. If not, their search will put them in touch with voters that the DNC hasn’t talked...