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Tango01 | 01 Jun 2017 12:05 p.m. PST |
"It was December in northern Syria and the temperature was dropping fast. Local militias fighting the Islamic State had suffered heavy casualties after a tough battle, and U.S. special operations forces urgently needed to get blankets to their partners. They turned to a small charity run by Jim Hake, a former venture capitalist who made his fortune on tech startups in California. Within eight hours, 200 blankets had arrived for the wounded Syrian fighters, paid for by Hake's non-profit organization, Spirit of America. A government agency would have been hard pressed to respond so quickly on short notice. And that's why some top U.S. generals and lawmakers believe Hake's organization has found a promising new way of delivering foreign aid, by avoiding cumbersome bureaucracy or government contracts…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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