How Far Does $20 Go in 2021?

If you’ve been to a grocery store this year you may have noticed that $20 buys you less than it did just a year ago. To add insult to injury, many manufacturers attempt to deceive consumers via “shrinkflation”--reducing the net amount of a product while retaining the same packaging size (and price). illuminAid takes pride in bucking this trend all the while being as effective and transparent as a nonprofit organization can be. 

Doing more with less is not easy. It means purchasing discounted refurbished computers for office use, it means reducing overhead by sharing office space, it means relying on volunteers to author articles such as this. The result is more dollars that can be spent on our mission, which is positively impacting the lives of the world’s poorest through low-cost technology. Efficiency and sustainability only begin to thrive at that point. Just one of illuminAid’s Video Education Workshops can empower NGOs with effective video content creation training and durable equipment that can persist for decades to come.

In a time when pandemics and inflation amplify global poverty impacts, illuminAid relentlessly seeks to make an impact of its own. Every dollar received by illuminAid is transformed into a real impact for real people who live in the most impoverished countries. illuminAid also has received the 2021 Guidestar Gold Seal of Transparency, a transparency benchmark for the nonprofit world. We will continue to strive to keep our per unit of impact costs low, while retaining the effectiveness of our mission, relegating shrinkflation to the aisles of your local grocer.