May 3, 2007

Humanitarian Groups Struggle With Challenges of Providing Aid

By Ian Wilhelm

International aid groups have helped persuade the U.S. government that fighting global poverty should be considered a top foreign-policy goal, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told nonprofit organizations gathered here.

This year the State Department made "reducing widespread poverty" one of the priorities of its overarching strategy, known as transformational diplomacy, due in part to the advocacy of nonprofit leaders, Ms. Rice said, at a meeting organized by InterAction, a

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