August 7, 2008
Give and Take
Direct-giving Web sites rely on fees to help cover costs
At Globalgiving.com, donors can contribute as little as $25 to any of hundreds of projects, such as drilling new wells for fresh water in Bangladesh, teaching computer skills to rural students in Sri Lanka, and providing emergency shelter to children orphaned by the May earthquake in China.
GlobalGiving bills itself as a way for small donors to connect directly to an international project, at a fraction of the cost it would have taken a decade ago to find such a project, deliver money
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