A Hole in the World Aid Web / Lessons learned in modern disasters point to gaps in the charity net:
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"Since Sept. 11, 2001, when disaster hit home in a way that Americans will never forget, catastrophe has been in the limelight, our response to natural and man-made emergencies as a world community, as a nation and as individuals, severely tested. 'The events of 9/11 shook us to our core,' says Daniel Borochoff, founder and president of the American Institute of Philanthropy, a charity watchdog and information service that evaluates the efficiency, accountability and governance of nonprofit organizations. If, as a nation, we tend to be insular, maybe even isolationist, that tendency came to an end with Sept. 11, and our deepest concerns were awakened, our most profound convictions challenged. And while the scope and proportion of recent calamity, from terrorism to tsunamis to hurricanes to quakes to humanitarian crises, is staggering, the challenges aren't new, they've just become more visible.
Addressing these challenges is a web of world aid, i"
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