Released: November 22, 2008

A critical year for community-based organizations

Source: Julie L. Rogers, Washington Post (Free Registration)

Every year around this time, mailboxes fill up with impassioned appeals for money by many worthy causes and organizations. This year, there is an added urgency to the requests: the economic downturn combined with uncertainty about other sources of funding that has hit Washington-area nonprofits hard.

Now, more than ever, community-based organizations need support. People facing foreclosure, lacking health care, needing legal help, or desperately seeking quality after-school care for their children depend on these organizations every day. Cutting back individual donations could mean, quite literally, cutting off critical services to those who need them most.

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