Promoting Hope in Humanitarian Programming: Finding Funds

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Successful and ethical humanitarian services depend not only on finding the resources but on raising the necessary operating capital. Obtaining donations of products often is the necessary first step in establishing and building a program, as I mentioned in Part 1 of this two-part series.1
The next step toward the primary objective of sustainability is to migrate away from obtaining donated supplies and move toward a means of purchasing the products and passing along the expense to the recipient. Philanthropic organizations have learned the value of empowering individuals to invest in their own help-seeking activities.
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