NGOs like the International Red Cross and Medecins sans Frontieres have already left Iraq because of the increasing danger to aid workers. The recent kidnappings are accellerating this withdrawal.
Most nonprofits do their work in obscurity. There are sports pages in the newspaper, but no nonprofit pages despite being 10% of the U.S. economy. So it's no surprise to me that Project Censored's Top 25 Censored Stories of 2003 - 2004 looks like a laundry list of nonprofit missions.
Keep an eye on Advokit during this election season. It's an open source, Voter ID/Get-Out-The-Vote Web application available for free to any organization doing community organizing.
185 Cutback Strategies is an excerpt from Coping with Cutbacks: The Nonprofit Guide to Success When Times Are Tight, a book from the Wilder Foundation. I know a lot of organizations who could use these ideas right now.
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