By Madison Sweitzer | Outreach Director
Thank you again for your continued generosity to the Highland Support Project.
Although we have not been able to return to Guatemala as we typically could this summer, a wonderful positive has been our team of interns. We have interns working with us from the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, Longwood, George Washington, Georgetown, and Williams College. Spending the summer in Richmond with this team has allowed us to explore a lot more creative fundraising, research, and brainstorming.
We have also been able to spend time discussing and diving into the "how" and "why" of our work in Guatemala, and recently shared a new blog post about empowerment theory written by our intern, Sam Web.
"According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, there are more than 1.5 million registered nonprofit organizations in the U.S. alone. Picking a select number of charities to support from that total is a very difficult and important task. While making a choice, important questions arise: which causes are most worth supporting, what organizations are ethically using donations for their cause, and, most notably, what nonprofits are making the most significant difference in the world? The latter question might seem easy, the simple answer being the big-name charities with the biggest outreach. However, the largest charities having the most significant impact is a fundamentally flawed line of logic."
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