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Mennonite Central Committee cuts budget
A Lancaster
County nonprofit that
promotes peace and fights poverty around the world is facing a 10 percent
budget cut.
Mennonite Central Committee‘s international unit will have a
$27 million budget in the 2009-10 fiscal year, down from about $30 million in
the previous year. The actual reduction could end up being steeper: These
numbers apply to MCC’s “core budget,” but the organization also has a
supplemental budget that is still being worked out.
MCC is a complex organization, with 12 separate units across
the U.S. and Canada.
Other units also are facing budget cuts.
The international unit has offices in Akron,
Lancaster County,
and Winnipeg, Canada. About 100 people work for
the unit in Akron.
How the reductions will be achieved is being worked out, spokesman Ed Nyce said.
The unit’s fiscal year runs from April 1 until March 31.
Although MCC has more donors, the size of the average
contribution dropped in 2008, according to the organization. A steep fall in
the value of the Canadian dollar compared to the U.S. dollar also hurt MCC, as
many of its donors are in Canada.
MCC also suffered investment losses.
“As we make difficult decisions, our highest concern is for
the hundreds of thousands of people around the world whose lives are touched by
MCC’s work,” said Arli Klassen, executive director of the international unit,
in a written statement.
