Dubai Philanthropy Gives Money to American Charity

Dubai Cares, a year-old nonprofit group in the United Arab Emirates, plans to give several million dollars to support Room to Read, a San Francisco group that builds schools and libraries, publishes books, and provides scholarships in developing countries, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The new organization is part of a growing effort to establish organized philanthropy in the Middle East. While philanthropy is a core principle of Islam, it is only in recent years that the region’s wealthiest people have started building foundations that resemble America’s institutional approach to giving, the newspaper notes.

See this article about such efforts from The Chronicle’s archives.

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