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number is (703)276-0133.
Organizational reports should help in the search for answers to the following eight questions:
1) What is the purpose of the organization?
2) What type of action does it engage in?
3) Who is in charge? Who is on the Board of Directors?
4) How does the group maintain ties with people in the Third World?
5) Where does the money come from?
6) Where does the money go?
7) Who decides which projects to pursue?
8) How are the projects evaluated?
By answering those questions and doing their “homework,” community members will become wiser consumers of world hunger organizations and know with more certainty that problems associated with hunger are closer to being solved.
The following true narrative was written by Gary Gunderson, editor of Seeds magazine and is used by permission.
“I like my problems big — global peace, decline of the American family, international trade, world hunger. The bigger the better.
“Early this week, I was setting a fast pace down the sidewalk thinking of world hunger. Over lunch I had read of homeless American families — two million people falling between the cracks of our economy. Whole families are on the streets abandoned, often hungry.
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