India’s COVID crisis appears to be deepening, with the country recording 4,000 deaths two days in a row this week as oxygen and vaccine shots remain in short supply. However, those tallies are thought to be vastly undercounted.
Pichai and several other Indian-American CEOs, including Punit Renjen of Deloitte, Arvind Krishna of IBM IBM, +0.35% ; Raj Subramaniam of FedEx FDX, +1.99% ; and Shantanu Narayen of Adobe Systems ADBE, +2.62% are part of an international task force that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched this month to coordinate a response to the crisis with the American and Indian governments.
The company also has a “Trust and Safety” team that monitors fundraisers responding to sudden crises; the team is reviewing all fundraisers related to India’s COVID-19 surge “to ensure all donations are safely routed to the correct beneficiaries,” a spokeswoman told MarketWatch. Facebook investigates any fundraiser that a user reports as potentially fraudulent , and people who create fundraisers for nonprofits on Facebook or Instagram never have direct access to the money, she said.
Lutheran World Relief is working with local partners to deliver equipment including ventilators and pulse oximeters to hospitals.Oxfam is providing medical equipment as well as food and hygiene kits, especially in the hard-hit state of Maharashtra. To make sure an organization is a legitimate nonprofit that’s in good standing with authorities, punch the group’s Employee Identification Number into the IRS charity lookup tool. This number should be listed on the group’s website. All legitimate charities have an EIN, and no two are the same.
“If one charity can vaccinate 10 people with your donation while another charity can only vaccinate two, it’s easy to understand how taking a little extra time to do your research before giving will allow you to maximize your impact,” said Laurie Styron, executive director of CharityWatch.
Gotta give to Uncle Sam who gives it away. Granted this article why market watch is dying lol
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