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Article: Tsunami relief could hurt fund raising at home
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- Indianapolis Business Journal
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- January 24, 2005
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Philanthropic response to last month's tsunami has mounted along with the death toll, as citizens worldwide open their hearts and their checkbooks to help southeast Asia recover.
In the United States alone, international relief organizations have raised more than $400 million, observers estimate, and pledges are still flowing in.
But the impressive charitable effort perhaps second only to the outpouring of support that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks-has some fund-raisers worried that causes closer to home will suffer.
"Sept. 11 taught us that people make choices," said Mark Branch, executive director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Indianapolis. "So many people sent money to the ...