by Adrian Muller Generally speaking, information about the impact of our charity money — specifically who that money ends up helping — almost always remains opaque to us. Donors around the world are increasingly demanding proof of outcomes, a phenomenon referred in the non-profit world as the “accountability crisis,” and these days accountability is a requisite that every non-profit organization must meet if it aspires to attract funding. An interesting way to approach this issue is by establishing direct links between donors and recipients, so that individuals can track their contributions. Child sponsorship has been using this model for some time now, linking a child in the developing world to a sponsor in the Global North. Now, Family-to-Family (F-2-F), an American non-profit hunger relief program, is following a similar model, but at the family level. Instead of linking individual donors with a specific recipient, F-2-F connects wealthy and middle-class families to less privileged families. Currently F-2-F is limiting its services to American families as they remind us that despite being one of the world’s wealthiest countries, there are 36 million people in the U.S. living below the poverty level. The program focuses in helping profoundly poor and hungry rural American… (more)
(Posted by WorldChanging Team in Philanthropy at 12:20 PM)
