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Money needed most in Haiti earthquake relief efforts

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Money needed most in Haiti earthquake relief efforts

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(CNN) -- The next question on many people's minds after learning about the earthquake devastation in Haiti has been: How can I help? Most organizations are asking for monetary donations. They are not seeking material items, like clothes or food, or volunteers at this time.

These agencies have set up phone lines, online donation pages and even texting for individuals to contribute to their relief efforts. We've compiled a list of a few organizations who are in Haiti helping those in need.

These resources include the highest-rated charities by CharityNavigator.org, which is an independent, nonprofit organization that evaluates charity groups based on effectiveness and financial stability.

These sites are vetted by CNN journalists for credibility.

For additional resources, go to Impact Your World


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http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/01/13/haiti.earthquake.how.to.help/index.html
 
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Haiti earthquake: How to help

A list of charitable organizations active in the nation

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January 15, 2010 11:04 AM Eastern Time

Dollar General Donates $100,000 to Aid Earthquake Victims in Haiti

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dollar General Corporation today announced a $100,000 donation to help victims recover from the devastating earthquakes in Haiti.
?Dollar General is dedicated to helping our friends in Haiti recover from this disaster?
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Dollar General donated the funds to International Red Cross, which has dispatched teams to help the recovery effort.

?Dollar General is dedicated to helping our friends in Haiti recover from this disaster,? said Rick Dreiling, Dollar General?s chairman and CEO. ?We are committed to our mission of serving others, in good times and in bad. We are heartened by the bravery and resiliency of the people of Haiti.?

The company is encouraging its employees and others to make donations to the relief effort. To make an online donation to the Red Cross? recovery efforts, visit http://redcross.org.

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CHICAGO ? United Airlines said Thursday that it will match up to $50,000 in customer and employee donations made through its Web site to aid victims of Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti.

The funds will go to the American Red Cross, United said.

United, which is a unit of UAL Corp., said that members of its Mileage Plus frequent-flier program and employees are donating miles to nonprofits through its Charity Miles program.

The company added that it is working with disaster relief agencies to decide how to help with airlift relief efforts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100114/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_united_airlines_donation
 
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Madonna gives $250K to Haiti, asks others to match

The Associated Press
NEW YORK Madonna says she has donated a $250,000 to help the people of Haiti - and she is urging her fans and friends to do the same.

The pop queen said Friday in a statement that her prayers are with the people of Haiti. She says she donated to Partners In Health, a longtime health care provider there.

She is asking friends and fans around the world "to join me collectively to match my contribution or give in any way you can."

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Lowe's Canada stores to serve as donation sites for Canadian Red Cross Haiti Relief

January 15, 2010 11:20 a.m.

TORONTO, Jan. 15, 2010 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) --

Lowe's stores to serve as official Red Cross donation sites

Company challenges customers to donate for relief

Lowe's Companies Canada, ULC, a subsidiary of Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW), announced today that all 16 stores across Canada will serve as cash donation sites for the Canadian Red Cross to support earthquake relief in Haiti. Lowe's challenges its customers to stop by their local Lowe's store to make a donation to aid relief on the island nation.

The Government of Canada will match Haiti relief contributions to the Canadian Red Cross from individuals received by Feb. 12th up to a total of $50 million.

"Millions of people are suffering and have been displaced by the wide-spread destruction of Haiti's recent earthquake," said Robert A. Niblock, Lowe's chairman and CEO. "Among those millions are the families and friends of many of our customers and employees. Lowe's customers have always been extremely generous in responding to disaster relief efforts, so we are asking them to once again partner with us by contributing one dollar at a time to help our international neighbours begin the recovery process."

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Full text of Royal Caribbean's announcement on aid to Haiti

Royal Caribbean issued the following announcement Friday on its plans to help Haiti in the wake of Tuesday's earthquake

MIAMI ? January 15, 2010 ? Royal Caribbean Cruises, one of Haiti's largest foreign investors for almost 30 years, today announced its plans to provide at least $1 million in humanitarian relief to Haiti in response to the catastrophic earthquake in Port-Au-Prince. Royal Caribbean will be partnering with charitable organizations ? such as Food for the Poor, Pan American Development Foundation, and the Solano Foundation, the company's foundation in Haiti ? to provide additional assistance to the people of Haiti. Royal Caribbean will also be delivering much needed goods and supplies to Haiti via their cruise ships.

"The effect of the earthquake on Haiti has been catastrophic, leaving the country in need of not only immediate support, but assistance in their long-term recovery," said Richard D. Fain, chairman and chief executive officer, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. "Royal Caribbean wants to do its part to help out not only the general response, but also our hundreds of Haitian employees and their families through this disaster."

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Tiger Woods Helps Haitian Earthquake Victims

Friday, 15 January 2010

Tiger Woods Helps Haitian Earthquake Victims: Is Tiger Woods finally coming out of hiding? According to various reports, golf?s world No.1 Tiger Woods is considering donating $3 million to help Haitian victims after a 7.0-magnitude Earthquake destroyed Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

According to hip hop mogul Russell Simmons, the billionaire golfer is in the process of sending doctors and medical supplies to the island. "Tiger Woods is working on sending a mobile hospital with 50 EMTs to go set up a triage," Simmons told the Daily News Wednesday night.

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PURCHASE, N.Y. - MasterCard said it will waive interchange fees on Haitian earthquake relief donations if the donations are made to one of five charities.

The charities are: The American Red Cross, AmeriCares, UNICEF, Save the Children and CARE USA.

Intercharge fees are charges that merchants pay the company for transactions using Mastercard.

Purchase, N.Y.-based MasterCard Inc. also said Thursday it has made a corporate donation to the American Red Cross, and is double-matching employee contributions to the Haitian disaster relief fund of the American Red Cross. A news release did not specify the size of the corporate donation.

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Jan 15, 2010

Clooney, Pitt, Damon organization gives $1M to Haiti

In addition to the telethon George Clooney is organizing, he's also behind a big donation to Haiti.

Not On Our Watch, an international advocacy organization founded by actors George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, producer Jerry Weintraub, and human rights lawyer David Pressman, has directed $1 million in emergency response funds to provide medical services for victims of the disaster. The beneficiary of the grant, Partners In Health (PIH), presently has relief efforts underway providing emergency medical care for the wounded in Haiti.

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How to Make Sure Your Donation Helps Haitian Earthquake Victims

January 13, 2010 - 3:05 pm

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The devastating earthquake in Haiti has led many around the world to look for ways to help. I asked William P. Barrett, a senior editor at Forbes who has written extensively about philanthropy, on the best ways that someone can make sure that their donation is going to help someone in need. Here?s what he had to say:

If you want to help victims of the giant earthquake in Haiti by making a financial contribution, you have many options.

More than a score of the 200 nonprofits on the Forbes list of America?s 200 largest charities report they are moving to provide assistance to Haiti.

Every organization in this group has reasonable financial efficiencies. In most cases you can make donations via their websites. You can find a link to the charity?s website, plus other useful donor information, on the Forbes page for each nonprofit, listed below:

Adventist Development and Relief Agency
American National Red Cross
AmeriCares Foundation
Brother?s Brother Foundation
CARE USA
Catholic Medical Mission Board
Catholic Relief Services
Cross International
Direct Relief International
Doctors Without Borders USA
Food for the Poor
Habitat for Humanity
Heart to Heart International
MAP International
Medical Teams International
Mercy Corps
Operation Blessing International Relief
Operation Compassion
Oxfam America
Salvation Army
Save the Children Federation
United States Fund for UNICEF
World Vision
--- William P. Barrett

http://blogs.forbes.com/moneybuilde...ur-donation-helps-haitian-earthquake-victims/
 
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Text donations for Haiti earthquake overwhelm Red Cross

Matt Hamblen, Computerworld


Friday, January 15, 2010

(01-15) 14:56 PST -- Text donations to Haiti earthquake relief may not constitute a miracle, but the American Red Cross says it is overwhelmed by the millions of $10 gifts it has received via mobile phone texting.

As of early today, the Red Cross said it had raised $8 million in $10 donations via text messages, and that it could raise millions more via that route over the long holiday weekend.

The simple donation process requires a mobile phone user with a texting account to text the word "Haiti" to 90999. A $10 donation will be automatically applied to their phone bill. Cell phone companies have agreed to forward 100% of the total generated in the program to the American Red Cross.

"We honestly have no clue how much more to expect, but have been really surprised and overwhelmed by the amount of donations via texting," said Red Cross spokeswoman Carrie Housman in an interview today. The $8 million total raised by early Friday, less than three days after the earthquake ravaged Haiti, was "unheard of," she said. Half the total was raised in less than a day, she added.

"We never raised this much money with a mobile campaign, especially $10 at a time," Housman said, noting that smaller domestic mobile campaigns have been tried since 2008. The latest mobile fund-raising campaign, she said, "blows [those] results out of the water."

She attributed the latest response to the dire emergency, the closeness of Haiti to the U.S. and also the simplicity of donating via text.

"It's something that an average person can do -- and the $10 amount has been key. It's doable," she said. "A 10-year-old girl texted her donation and called to tell us and said she was planning to spread the word through her classmates. It was very emotional for her."

Housman said the campaign started early; it was set up just three hours after the first quake struck. The text-to-donate plan was spread through various means, including popular social networks Twitter and Facebook .

The cellular companies will transfer the funds to the Red Cross once donors pay their phone bills, which means the money might take 30 to 60 days to reach the Red Cross, Housman noted. Still, the Red Cross has already funneled some $10 million to Haiti relief, using cash on hand. The delayed funds will also come in handy as the island rebuilding effort will likely go on for years, Housman said.

The Red Cross texting effort is powered by Mobile Accord and the mGive Foundation, and is being coordinated with the U.S. State Department, according to the Red Cross Web site.

A map on the Red Cross Web site indicates that the largest number of text donations has come from populous states, including those near Haiti such as Texas and Florida.

Other texting relief efforts sponsored by the Clinton Foundation and musician Wyclef Jean are also underway. Officials from those groups could not be reached to comment. The Wyclef Jean effort calls for texting the word "Yele" to 501501 while the Clinton Foundation program calls for texting "Haiti" to 20222.

Housman said the Red Cross will be evaluating other ways to use texting to raise funds in the future, perhaps by adding programs for $1 or $20 donations. Since the Haiti earthquake, phone and Web and texting contributions totaled $37 million, she said.

Kevin Burden, a mobile phone analyst for ABI Research Inc., said the $8 million collected by the Red Cross in less than three days is "just huge" and showed the value of simple donation processes.

"It's an easy way to make a transaction, and people don't even have to use a credit card online or even pull out $10 in cash," he noted. The outpouring of support for the Red Cross indicates an "extension of our comfort level of using the phone to actually pay for something."

But Burden added that the texting payment system could have limits. "I don't expect people would pay a gym membership every month by phone," he said. "This is a one shot thing to donate to Haiti. An impulse donation like this makes sense."

Burden said the lesson for charity groups and businesses and marketing professionals is that "when you want to get donations from a lot of people very quickly, the mobile phone has become a great medium."

He credited American Idol, the TV show in which viewers vote for their favorite singer via text messages, with helping the public understand the value of text messaging beyond chatting with friends. "American Idol has helped us see how a lot of people can get together and chip in and make something happen," he said. "There's a feeling of community, it's easy, and you have an impact."

Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates, warned against drawing too many conclusions about the power of using phones to make payments.

"The Haiti relief texting shows that many people in the states are no longer afraid to use their phones to make payments," he said. "Given the right circumstances, phone users will use their phones as their credit cards. But I think their generosity is more of a gut response to people seeing things going on in Haiti. Will this example enhance interest in people using phones as payments? I'm not sure."

Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld . Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen , send e-mail to mhamblen@computerworld.com or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed .


Original story - www.computerworld.com/s/article/9145398/Text_donations_for_Haiti_earthquake_overwhelm_Red_Cross_
 
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Jan 19 2010 11:46 AM EST
Sandra Bullock Donates $1 Million To Haiti Earthquake Relief

Golden Globe winner joins a number of celebrities who have donated.

By Jocelyn Vena


Sandra Bullock
Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Sandra Bullock has donated $1 million to relief for victims of last Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti, according to Variety.. The Golden Globe winner's donation matches the contributions of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, the magazine reported, as well as George Clooney, who will host MTV's "Hope for Haiti" telethon, which airs Friday at 8 p.m. ET/ PT on MTV and other networks.

Variety also reported that supermodel Gisele Bundchen has donated $1.5 million to Haitian earthquake relief, and that Madonna has said she's donated $250,000.

"I would say, 'Get involved, whatever you do,' " Clooney told MTV News at the Golden Globes red carpet on Sunday. "This is about compassion. There are times in our lives when people are really without help and in real danger, and this is one of those times. So whatever they can do ? give money to one of the organizations that they like the best."

Clooney, Wyclef Jean and CNN's Anderson Cooper have joined as hosts for Friday's event that will broadcast from New York and Haiti, respectively, while Clooney will be in Los Angeles. The show will air commercial-free across ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT.


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