Further complicating the problem, aid officials said, is that Syria's neighbors have grown increasingly worried about the lack of donations needed to feed, house and clothe the growing number of refugees.
As most agencies will admit, rich types with bleeding hearts are not the best judges of where their donations are needed; an agency that simply catered to donors' whims would short-change the needy.
"We are now faced with an even higher hurdle," said Amy Handlin, a Republican in the 13th District who lobbied to be part of Clean Elections but who, along with her incumbent running mate, raised only 1,300 of the 3,000 donations they needed.
Donations of cash are needed for the response.
Like many of the charity representatives HuffPost spoke with, Webb recommends unrestricted giving, which is when donors give generally to an organization and let it use the donation as needed, instead of donating to a specific area of the organization or making an in-kind donation of physical goods.
For many types of donations, you need to take the donator's name, occupation, address, and other information.
By conceptualizing the world's poor as customers rather than recipients of donations, businesses need to listen and adapt to the desires of the people who are the target of the intervention.
"I think this whole question of donations does need to be looked at again, but in terms of the Liberal party itself, what we need to do is to ensure that it belongs to its members, not the factions.
10,000 donations are needed every day".
There's warehouses full of donations that need organising, there's fundraising that needs doing, there's public awareness; the word needs to be spread.
