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Bi-Monthly News for Contributors and Friends of ICF

January - February 2002

ICF In the News:

ICF was featured in the December 2001 issue of Global Giving Matters, a monthly publication of the New York-based Synergos Institute and the World Economic Forum in a news brief entitled "Cultivating young donors to "give back" in Asia and the Americas," focusing on the establishment of ICF's new affinity group, the Young International Philanthropists.

ICF was also featured in the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico's Business Mexico's 2002 Special Edition on Corporate Philanthropy in an article entitled "Share the Wealth: Corporate Philanthropy is Slowly on the Rise in Mexico Now that Businesses Are Catching on to the Benefits." In the article ICF President, Richard Kiy, highlighted the challenges of corporate giving among border area maquiladoras indicating "corporate philanthropy is growing on the border but it is not enough. The problem is the clash of competing interests: the cost-cutting culture of the maquiladora industry versus the will to invest resources into the communities that play host to it.