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A newspaper columnist gets it wrong

Howard Lake

Howard Lake | 12 December 2000 | News

Earlier this year San Francisco Sunday Chronicle columnist Joan Ryan encouraged readers to support a charity she had heard about in Kenya. She got it wrong. Cheques sent to the charity were intercepted and some cashed for larger sums, up to $9,000.

Read Joan Ryan’s response, and read UK Fundraising’s coverage on alleged scams.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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