Tuesday, January 19, 2010

How to Donate to Haiti

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Haiti Relief

A massive 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. 3 million people have been affected by the quake and its aftermath. Reports estimate that over 200,000 thousand people may be dead and 1.5 million left homeless. Nearly all of Port-au-Prince is either damaged or destroyed, including much needed hospitals and facilities to house the injured. Emergency supplies such as food, water, medical supplies and clothing are desperately needed. The organizations below need your help now to be able to provide assistance in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

To ensure your contribution goes to Haiti relief funds, please remember to designate your gift to "Haiti Earthquake".

Can't decide where to give? Why not give to all?

When you give to Network for Good, we will divide your donation among all of the organizations listed below. This way, you can spread your help across the charities on the front lines of the relief and rebuilding efforts.

Organizations Working on Haiti Earthquake Relief:

*Note: If you are interested in donating physical items like clothing or supplies, please contact nonprofits that accept in-kind donations like the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries International. At this time, cash donations are most needed so organizations can purchase the exact supplies necessary for emergency response.

Action Against Hunger
Tackling malnutrition and providing clean water to vulnerable communities.

Action Aid USA
Working on emergency aid and longterm rebuilding efforts.

American Jewish World Service
Enabling network of grantees to meet the urgent needs of the population.

American Red Cross
Seeing to needs for food, water, shelter, medical services and support.

AmeriCares
Working with partners to deliver humanitarian aid and disaster relief.

Architecture for Humanity
Helping to rebuild affected areas and promote earthquake resistant housing.

Bless the Children
Bless the Children has mobilized volunteers for disaster relief efforts for Haiti. With donated funds we are providing medical support, food, water and family care packages.

CARE
Deploying response teams to distribute food and provide immediate aid.

Catholic Relief Services
Providing emergency relief and community development.

Church World Service
Sending funds to local partners in Haiti. CWS-supported efforts will include the construction of temporary water systems, providing water purification materials, tents and food packages.

Clinton Foundation

Concern Worldwide
Mounting a comprehensive response to this crisis. Aid stocks on the ground are being distributed and more supplies are being flown in. We have committed, resilient teams reaching people with desperately needed aid.

Convoy of Hope
Establishing an emergency command center to distribute aid.

Cross International
Aiding with food and medical care.
Direct Relief International
Allocating up to $1 million in aid committed for earthquake response.

Doctors without Borders
Treating the injured and setting up replacement clinics in tents.

FINCA International
FINCA will remain in Haiti, as we have done for the past 20 years, providing hope and life-changing loans to some of the world’s poorest people.

Food for the Poor
Administering support and distributing supplies from it's warehouse facilities in Haiti. Dedicated to long-term relief efforts.

Global Giving
Directing funds to aid and development projects on the ground.

Grameen Foundation
Helping quake survivors rebuild their businesses and lives through small loans.

Haiti Cheri Harvest Life Ministry
We are providing direct relief in Haiti. We have been working in the country since the year 2001.

Haitian Health Foundation
Providing health care, development, relief, and hope to the poor.

Haitian Ministries
Seeing to immediate aid needs.

Heifer Project International

Hope For Haiti
Working to improve the quality of life for the Haitian people.

Hope for Haiti's Children
Delivering medical supplies, food and water. The organization has been in Haiti since 1995 sponsoring children to go to school.

HUP Helping Haiti Foundation
Will concentrate rebuilding efforts (schools, commerce, housing, etc).

I.M.P.A.C.T.
Direct relief is underway and will continue for years, as in Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike.

Int'l Medical Corps
Providing medical care and other emergency services.

Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities
Response team is coordinating with partners to provide relief.

Int'l Rescue Committee
Providing emergency relief and aid services.

Lions Clubs International Foundation
Using donated funds, Lions are purchasing supplies locally, such as water, food, medicine and blankets.

Lutheran World Relief
LWR has committed an initial $1,000,000 to the relief effort. LWR is coordinating a two-phase relief and recovery response through our partners on the ground in Haiti.

MADRE
Activating emergency response through partner Zanmi Lasante Clinic.

Mercy Corps
Deploying an emergency team to provide relief and assistance.

Mission Aviation Fellowship
MAF staff coordinate with government and NGOs to fly to remote airstrips delivering supplies and aid.

National Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul
Sending aid and supplies to network in Haiti for immediate relief.

Operation USA
Sending medical team and supplies for immediate relief.

Oxfam America
Mobilizing a public health, water and sanitation team and supplies.

Partners in Health
Providing community-based healthcare and assistance.

Project Hope
Preparing medical disaster relief shipment and soliciting corporate medical donations.

Pure Water for the World
Providing clean water, installing filters, and setting up secure water filtration centers in earthquake stricken villages in Haiti. Now more than ever, the need for clean water is great.

Reiser Relief

Salesian Missions
Providing education, food, shelter and hope to the world’s poorest children.

Salvation Army
Operating schools, clinics, hospitals, food programs, children's homes.

Save the Children
Sending teams to help support the emergency response.

Seton Institute
The Seton Institute, the international outreach arm of Ascension Health, is undertaking relief efforts to meet the immediate needs in Haiti and provide ongoing assistance as the nation recovers from this tragedy.

United Methodist Committee on Relief
Collecting health kits to send and working with staff on the ground to provide assistance.

UNICEF
Preparing long-term poverty solutions in health care, education, sanitation.

World Concern
Providing emergency survival kits for families that includes medicine, clean water, food, blankets, plastic sheeting and clothing.

World Food Programme
Providing emergency food assistance and longterm development.

World Hope International
Mobilizing its 60-strong Haitian staff and community volunteers to respond with food, safe water, cooking fuel and other basic supplies as available. As the work of first responders ebbs, WHI will expand its response by mobilizing U.S. volunteers to assist the Haitian staff and communities in clean-up and rebuilding.

World Vision Int'l
Providing emergency relief services.

Yele Haiti (Wyclef Jean)
Building awareness, programs in education, sports, arts, environment.

Volunteer Information:

Due to current dangerous conditions in Haiti, please do not travel to the areas affected by the earthquake without explicit instructions from a qualified emergency response organization. Volunteer opportunities in Haiti will become available after the initial emergency response when the situation stabilizes so rebuilding efforts can progress.

Organizations with offices in the U.S. will likely need volunteers to help with fundraisers and community events, provide office support or to organize supplies pre-deployment. You can search for volunteer opportunities here (http://www1.networkforgood.org/for-donors/volunteer).

If you want to donate to a charity you may go to the Network for Good website and make your donation.

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