Given the public notoriety of international disasters, my sense is that an opposite phenomenon can happen. My understanding is that for the tsunami the organizations were receiving more contributions than they could actually handle, in having Christmas overlap with the actual disaster, so my sense is that the public profile these disasters receive...they already receive considerable government and private contributions. I don't see them as being in any way made an underdog by an ongoing endorsement of certain areas of charitable activity having an ongoing higher credit.
On October 3rd, 2012. See this statement in context.