May 1, 2008
Food and Fuel Costs Hit U.S. Aid Groups Already Hurt by a Weakened Dollar
Charities that work overseas have been battered by a spate of recent economic troubles, including rising food and oil prices and the weakening dollar. Nonprofit leaders say they are pressed to meet growing needs, even as the costs of doing work balloon.
Some charities have even been forced to scale back services. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in New York, dropped 25,000 people from a food and medical-assistance program in the former Soviet Union after expenses
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