The Associated Press reports on the nationwide fallout for charities from a simultaneous double-digit drop in donations and growing poverty.

Donations to nonprofit social-service providers declined 12.7 percent last year, according to the Giving USA Foundation. At the same time, strapped state and local governments are cutting back on grants or delaying payments, and a rise in the national poverty rate to an 11-year high of 13.2 percent is swelling the ranks of those seeking help.

Read The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s coverage of the latest Giving USA report.

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