Posted by Ann Corcoran on December 28, 2017
It is “an unprecedented crisis!”
--Mark Hetfield, CEO HIAS
I suspect all of the nine federal refugee resettlement contractors*** are doing this—end-of-year appeals for money for 2018. I just happened to see HIAS’s appeal yesterday.
Because fewer refugees (paying clients) are expected to enter the US in the coming year, and because (if it’s true) the tax law changes are such that it’s less attractive to make charitable donations in 2018 and beyond, we are seeing the big push here.
This is what Mark Hetfield, CEO of HIAS, said in an urgent e-mail ...