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WHAT KIND OF HELP IS NEEDED NOW? While immediate relief needs are being addressed, long-term development work--rebuilding schools, making microloans to rejuvenate businesses, providing trauma counseling--has barely begun. Large international charities with development projects in places like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia include Oxfam, CARE, Save the Children, World Vision and the International Rescue Committee. "Emergency relief is sexy, but people need sewers and roads and health clinics," says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy...
...PICK A CHARITY? Watchdog websites such as charitynavigator.org give.org and charitywatch.org rate organizations on the efficiency of their programs--in other words, how much of your money goes to aid vs. administration and fund-raising efforts. Many large, well-known charities, including the American Red Cross and Catholic Relief Services, get good marks and have set up special tsunami funds. If there is an organization you admire, though, you may want to consider giving an unrestricted donation, which will allow the charity to allocate the cash as it is most needed. One warning: be wary of e-mails soliciting donations...
...Aceh, to use Indonesia as an example). If you prefer an overseas charity, stick to those that have partnered with more well-known organizations, suggests Eric Thurman, CEO of Geneva Global, a group that hooks up wealthy American donors with charities abroad. For example, LEADS is a Sri Lankan relief group that has worked with Tearfund, a British umbrella group. Another possible route: contacting organizations in immigrant communities where you live that may be providing direct aid to families...
BEST PUNCH: Reopening a spat that followed a 9/11 benefit, the Fox anchor questioned whether funds from an NBC telethon would go to tsunami relief: "If George Clooney and other stars go on TV and ask you to give, then they had better be involved all the way down the line...
...much has been raised, but so little has come my way. Is all the money going to Aceh?" ARIFFIN MANSOOR, Malaysian fisherman, on the shortage of relief aid in Kedah state, where 2,300 fishing boats were destroyed by the Dec. 26 tsunami...