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For us, this isn’t just about paying bills. It’s about guaranteeing
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But a major annual survey tracking charitable giving in the U.S. found
that individual donations to nonprofit organizations declined overall by
a whopping 13.4 percent last year—the largest drop adjusted for
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Yet we’ve never faced challenges like we do now: Rising costs. Falling
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Because you’re a Common Dreams reader, we don’t have to tell you how
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moment, with so many Americans cutting back on their donations and
countless news outlets cutting back or shutting down entirely, we need
our readers to step up and do more.

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