Emergency Challenge Funds
Challenge Funds can be easily adapted to raise funds for emergency appeals, due to the urgency that they create. The most recent of these emergency funds was for the 2011 East Africa drought, which saw Reed Foundation join with other philanthropists to double donations to 13 aid agencies. The appeal raised £175,000.
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