The terrible devastation in Haiti has triggered a worldwide response and similar, recent disasters in Chile, Mexico and China are prompting a charitable-giving response. At The Community Foundation, we're dedicated to helping our "community of givers" make sound decisions when deciding how to direct their donation dollars. The following organizations have demonstrated a high degree of effectiveness, sound stewardship, and an existing presence in Haiti, thus facilitating the emergency response effort.
Ways to Give
Give Through Donor Central
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Donate by Texting
Text the word "Haiti" to 90999 and $10.00, charged to your phone bill, will be given to the American Red Cross via the State Department.
A Presidential Response
Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have established a donation site at www.clintonbushhaitifund.org.
Nonprofit Relief Agencies
American Red Cross
To donate to the American Red Cross, follow the link below.
American Jewish World Service (AJWS)
AMJS has quickly responded to assist victims of the massive earthquake that occurred in Haiti on January 12. A relief fund has been created in an effort to help AJWS’s representatives and grantee organizations working on the ground in Haiti to meet the urgent needs of the Haitian people at this desperate time. Donations to AJWS's "Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund" can be made at www.ajws.org.
CARE
CARE is currently sending additional emergency team members to the city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti which has been shocked and devastated by the earthquake. To donate to and support CARE’s efforts to aid victims of the earthquake in Haiti please visit: www.care.org.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Overnight, Catholic Relief Services has allocated $5 million to the relief effort in Haiti in response to the earthquake. CRS is also organizing to release their supply of food, water storage containers, bedding, and other supplies which is housed in warehouses in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Miami. If you would like to donate to help CRS in their response to this catastrophic earthquake, please visit: www.crs.org
Church World Service (CWS)
Church World Service is prepared to provide disaster relief to victims in Haiti of the January 12th earthquake. As a member of Action by Churches Together (ACT) International, an emergency response consortium of churches and church-related agencies coordinated by Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the World Council of Churches (WCC), CWS responds to disasters in regions affected deeply by poverty, like Haiti, by providing financial support, staff support, material resources, and technical assistance to CWS partners working in affected regions in an effort to aid vulnerable groups, like children, women and the disabled. If you would like to donate to CWS relief effort in Haiti please visit: www.churchworldservice.org.
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams already stationed in Haiti are currently treating hundreds of people injured by the earthquake and have set up clinics in tents to replace medical facilities that have been damaged by the quake themselves. Eight hundred staff are on the ground and 70 more staff members are in route to aid with the response. Please visit www.doctorswithoutborders.org to donate to MSF’s efforts to bring health care to those who have been devastated by this disaster.
Mercy Corps
MercyCorps has extensive experience responding to earthquakes around the globe and is currently sending an emergency response team to the nation of Haiti and working with partners to get the necessary resources to respond quickly to the people in need. A gift to MercyCorps’s Haiti Earthquake Fund will aid with this response. In order to give to this Fund please visit: www.mercycorps.org.
Partners in Health (PIH)
Partners in Health’s clinical director in Haiti has made a desperate plea for basic medical supplies. PIH is currently focused on how best to help the relief effort in Haiti through their current projects in the region. If you would like to donate to PIH’s Haitian relief effort, please visit: www.pih.org.
United Nations Foundation
The United Nations Foundation has released $10 million from their Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) to support immediate assistance and rescue missions in Haiti. Around the globe the United Nations has experts in disaster recovery missions that are ready to provide assistance and their expertise. UN Emergency Coordinators are on the ground in Haiti that are assessing needs and where resources should be allocated. By donating to CERF you can support the United Nations Foundation in their effort to get resources to the right place at the right time in order to save lives. To donate to the Fund, please visit the United Nations Foundation website at www.globalproblems-globalsolutions.org.
World Vision
World Vision’s concern for the well-being of children and families in Haiti is at an all time high. At this time, World Vision asks for support in two ways. By donating to World Vision's Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, World Vision staff members will be able to quickly send emergency assistance, like food, clean water, blankets, tents, medicines, etc. to those that have the highest needs. In addition, World Vision is asking for individuals to support a child in Haiti. Your dollars will help provide basic essentials to a child in need. Please visit World Vision’s website at http://www.worldvision.org/
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