{"id":9962,"date":"2011-11-23T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T23:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:21:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:21:55","slug":"november-25-2011-donor-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2011\/11\/23\/november-25-2011-donor-fatigue\/9962\/","title":{"rendered":" Donor Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/rss\/media\/video\/episode.1513.donor.fatigue.m4v --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRED DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>, correspondent: It&#8217;s here at the Ethiopia-Somali border that some 400 refugees arrive every single day, most of them women and children, most of them fleeing not just famine, but fighting.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, 135,000 mostly women and children have registered here in this harsh but promised land for refugees.  They have suffered for months and walked for days to get here.  There&#8217;s food and some basic medical care \u2014 just barely enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LINN BIORKLUND<\/strong> (Doctors Without Borders):  I think it\u2019s important to point out that the emergency&#8217;s not over. It&#8217;s ongoing. We continue to see people coming and these people are living here in camps and they are in great need of humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: For humanitarian agencies, the challenge is to sustain the supply pipeline and keep the attention in donor countries focused on this remote region that&#8217;s seen hunger and conflict for decades. It&#8217;s an ongoing, perennial and at least partially man-made disaster. In the minds of donors, that&#8217;s very different from sudden disasters, says Mike Lloyd.\u00a0 He heads a Minnesota-based group called Kids Against Hunger.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2011\/11\/post01-donorfatigue.jpg\" alt=\"post01-donorfatigue\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9971\" \/><strong>MIKE LLOYD<\/strong> (Kids Against Hunger): When the earthquake struck in Haiti, there was a tremendous outpouring for that event.  It went on for several months. We had groups all over country wanting to pack meals, and it was a real scramble for us to meet that demand.  Of course, donor dollars followed that demand for packaging the meals. When the Joplin tornado happened, of course we had a similar experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: This year, Kids Against Hunger volunteers will pack some 50 million ready-to-mix meals to be sent to needy regions around the world.\u00a0 Lloyd says the response to the crisis in East Africa has been much smaller.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LLOYD<\/strong>: Situations like we see in the Horn of Africa are long term, they are political, at least partly political, they\u2019re somewhat related to the drought situation but it&#8217;s been a long term political struggle in those areas and that has not excited the packers and the donors in the same way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DANIEL WORDSWORTH<\/strong> (American Refugee Committee): It\u2019s not so much about compassion fatigue. I think people are as compassionate today as they ever have been. For us, it\u2019s actually more a belief fatigue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Daniel Wordsworth heads another Minnesota-based group, the American Refugee Committee.\u00a0 ARC also saw a huge response to the Haiti earthquake.\u00a0 But support for Pakistan, hit by massive floods a few months later, was far weaker.\u00a0 Initially, Wordsworth says, there also was indifference toward the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2011\/11\/post02-donorfatigue.jpg\" alt=\"post02-donorfatigue\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9972\" \/><strong>WORDSWORTH<\/strong>: I think what we see in both Pakistan, and we\u2019re seeing it very strongly in Somalia, is that \u2014 and it really is almost confronting to us \u2013 is the lack of belief that people have for that country. So it\u2019s not that they don\u2019t feel compassionate. They just can\u2019t make the connection.  They don\u2019t believe that either change is possible there or that their money, or their resources, what they give, will actually translate into something different on the ground. That\u2019s the crisis that we\u2019re seeing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Wordsworth says it&#8217;s the deeds of one percent of the population that have given Pakistan and Somalia their reputation as hostile terrorist havens.\u00a0 So in its fundraising campaigns for Somalia, the American Refugee Committee has tried to &#8220;de-fang&#8221; Somalia&#8217;s image, drawing heavily on the fact that the largest Somali-American community is right in its home base in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WORDSWORTH<\/strong>: Our doctors may be Somali, our local business professionals Somali, our taxi drivers Somali. We actually get to meet the 99% on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p><em>Video clip: Hi, I am a star\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Somali-Minnesotans \u2014 prominent and otherwise \u2014 have led a varied media campaign, drawing in the larger local community.<\/p>\n<p><em>Video clip: We hosted a charity dinner&#8230; I&#8217;m a star because I donated money that I earned from a car wash&#8230; I organized an art show&#8230; I collected pennies for Somalia&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2011\/11\/post03-donorfatigue.jpg\" alt=\"post03-donorfatigue\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9973\" \/><strong>WORDSWORTH<\/strong>: It&#8217;s a whole different side of Somali culture that people don\u2019t normally see.  And then through, I think, that lens, you can see a dynamic, amazing group of people and your ability then to believe that if this country is full of people like this, there\u2019s huge hope for that country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Is it working?<\/p>\n<p><strong>WORDSWORTH<\/strong>: It\u2019s working really well for us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: How do you know?<\/p>\n<p><strong>WORDSWORTH<\/strong>: Actually we are seeing the same outpouring of compassion that we saw for Haiti. I think we will be one of the very few organizations in the world that can say that \u2013 that we\u2019re tracking about the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: In response to crises, donors fall into two distinct categories, according to Mike Lloyd. He says grassroots campaigns and images of suffering are less effective with large donors and philanthropists than they are with individual givers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LLOYD<\/strong>: Those gifts are given from the heart. They really react to the emotional sense that they\u2019re making a difference in the individual\u2019s life.  And when we talk to corporate givers or large donors, their dollars are usually more intended, in their minds at least, the things that are going to have lasting impact. So they\u2019re less likely to be driven by the emotional aspect of having an impact on an individual and what\u2019s going to happen to my dollars.  Are these going to really change anything or is it just going to be the same after the dollars are gone?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: The American Refugee Committee says it has gotten some major corporate donations, most likely because they&#8217;re local, says Wordsworth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WORDSWORTH<\/strong>: Groups like Best Buy, General Mills, the Mosaic company, U-Care, a health insurance provider. Because they\u2019ve got Somali staff, they can see it more quickly and then the rest of the staff and the rest of the company comes around behind them and shows some solidarity<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: ARC has used its donations to run a hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The recession at home has not hurt contributions. The group says people tend to be more sympathetic and responsive in tough times. Larger donors, though, need more convincing that their dollars, should they contribute, will bring enduring change over the long term in addition to easing the immediate suffering.<\/p>\n<p>For Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly, this is Fred de Sam Lazaro in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They don\u2019t believe that either change is possible there or that their money, or their resources, what they give, will actually translate into something different on the ground. That\u2019s the crisis that we\u2019re seeing,&#8221; says American Refugee Committee president Daniel Wordsworth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2011\/11\/23\/november-25-2011-donor-fatigue\/9962\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":17554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[93,5764,10207,1367,1283,1390,4278],"class_list":["post-9962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-africa","tag-charity","tag-donors","tag-famine","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-refugees","tag-somalia","topics-international"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>November 25, 2011 ~ Donor Fatigue | November 23, 2011 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;They don\u2019t believe that either change is possible there or that their money, or their resources, what they give, will actually translate into something different on the ground. 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