gFundraising - Interview with Camron Assadi from Mercy Corps
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Deputy Internet Director of Mercy Corps talks to us about why
email still works, the awesomeness of Google Grants, and how
Gmail makes it easy to check your email in Tajikistan.  Jed
Sundwall: Can you explain to us what Mercy Corps is? I mean,
it's huge, right?  Camron Assadi: We're pretty large. We're not
as huge as some of the other NGO's, but we're sort of in the
middle range, 250 million dollar organization, so it's large by
many measures, but small in others. We've been around since
1979, so it's about 29-years-old. What we do is basically really
three areas of humanitarian aid, so we do recovery, development
and disaster relief. We do a lot of economic development,
poverty relief, education, agriculture. So, we work in many
different areas, depending on the country. We're in, I believe,
35 countries right now. There are different programs in
different areas. Water programs in Af