CSR - Corporate donations for Haiti earthquake relief
Last updated 26/01/2010 08:35:48
CSR - Corporate donations for Haiti earthquake relief
Over the weekend Haiti's government called for an end for searches of the earthquake's survivors. The official death toll rose to 110,000 and the count for rescued people was 132 since the tragedy struck two weeks. Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive described the country's reconstruction efforts as "colossal".
International humanitarian efforts have taken all forms, from a benefit concert with over 100 music and Hollywood stars to donations of gently-used shoes.
The following is a list of several organisations from a very long list who continue give:
The Chrysler Foundation has donated $50,000 to both Oxfam America and the United States Fund for UNICEF to support their earthquake relief and recovery efforts for the residents of Haiti. The Company also continues to support Haiti relief efforts through initiatives with its employees, dealers and retirees.
Blackbaud, global software and services company for non-profit organizations has donated $50,000 donation in support of www.nethope.org, an information technology collaboration of 28 leading international humanitarian organizations, which is working to restore communications infrastructure in Haiti.
Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the US, has brought over 300,000 pounds of food items to the earthquake victims. Goya Puerto Rico brought much-needed personnel and supplies to Port-au-Prince and Goya Dominican Republic has been coordinating with Haitian authorities to send food and supplies over the border. Facilities that are participating in the relief effort on the mainland include Goya Foods in Florida, Texas, and New Jersey.
One of the organizations Goya is working with is Florida-based Food for the Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the United States.
Lions Clubs International leaders from the Dominican Republic and neighbouring Latin American countries have led a convoy of emergency relief supplies into Haiti. Lions members in Haiti distributed the supplies to locals.
Several Lions members in Haiti were victims of the earthquakes, losing immediate family members, friends and, for some, their own lives, but the Haitian Lions are putting aside their personal needs to oversee Lions international relief efforts.
Tents from Lions in Sweden arrived last week, and area Lions have set up the tents in affected communities. These large tents will house victims and relief workers.
Lions from Canada were in the area helping to establish a clean water system at an orphanage when the earthquake hit. They established a command post to administer medical assistance, treating 600 injured people.
Crawford & Company, the world's largest independent provider of claims management solutions, has contributed $10,000 to Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to aid the group's medical relief efforts in Haiti.
The Green Family Foundation, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving global health and elevating socio-economic conditions, has partnered with acclaimed actor and producer Fisher Stevens to produce "This is Haiti," a radio public service announcement (PSA) campaign to generate funding for the disaster relief efforts in Haiti via the Clinton Foundation and Partners in Health.
"This is Haiti" features readings of Haiti-inspired prose delivered by a number of the world's most famous performers including Sting, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts. The PSAs, each 60 seconds long, are posted online at www.greenff.org, where they can be downloaded for free.
Alan Lewis, chairman of Grand Circle Corporation, which owns Grand Circle Travel and Overseas Adventure Travel, reported that $517,719 has been donated by their charitable arm, Grand Circle Foundation, and by more than 4,000 travellers (4,029) in support of Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti. The funds will be used to provide water and food to earthquake survivors.
In a one-week period, Grand Circle travellers, mostly retired Americans in their late 60s, 70s, and 80s, donated $367,719, including $346,267 donated by 3,536 travelers during a 96-hour period that began on Thursday, January 14. Their generous response came quickly after an email from Grand Circle Foundation invited travellers to donate to the Red Cross through the Foundation during a given time period to receive a 100% match. The matching period raised $150,000 and Grand Circle Foundation matched that for a total donation of $517,719 to the American Red Cross of Mass. Bay.
Athletic Footwear store The Finish Line, Inc., the Finish Line Youth Foundation, its customers, employees and charitable partners began collecting monetary donations in stores and at www.finishline.com for Samaritan's Feet, a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to providing shoes for impoverished children around the world. In response to this catastrophe, Samaritan's Feet will redirect $50,000 from the current collection drive to help distribute shoes specifically for the people of Haiti.
The Finish Line Youth Foundation will match monetary donations from customers up to the first $50,000 collected. These funds will be distributed to Action Against Hunger, a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger, in an effort to bring a small measure of comfort to the Haitian people.
Foot Solutions, on behalf of Soles4Souls, the international charity dedicated to providing free footwear to people in desperate need, has now reached an estimated 100,000 pairs of donated shoes.
Foot Solutions stores asked the public to drop off their gently used shoes at any of their 240 worldwide locations and/or to contribute monetary donations for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
Convoy of Hope, a Springfield, Missouri-based humanitarian relief organization, has distributed more than 400,000 meals to families and installed 30 water purification units in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
"Because we were already in Haiti feeding 11,000 children daily we were able to respond quickly to the earthquake," says Hal Donaldson, president of Convoy of Hope. "Just before the earthquake struck we had restocked our warehouse."
Donaldson noted that another reason Convoy of Hope was able to distribute so many meals so fast was because of long-standing partnerships in Haiti with numerous groups and organizations like Mission of Hope.
Convoy of Hope already has 1 million more pounds of food headed to Haiti. Donaldson says more food, water and supplies are being readied because the organization is making a long-term commitment to help the people of Haiti recover from this disaster.
The Deaf Welcome Foundation (DWF) is inviting relief workers, survivors and families to join their NEW Deaf Welcome Network for communication and association over the Internet, with certified multilingual interpreters, whenever it is deemed necessary.
Relief workers have arrived from dozens of countries. Communication has been a problem. The Deaf Welcome Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt public charity, wants to provide a communication platform for Haitian survivors to reach family and friends to let them know they are safe and communicate with foreign relief workers. The DWF has partnered with translation services to provide access through multilingual certified interpreters of Haitian Creole, Haitian Sign Language, English, French, German, Spanish, American Sign Language, as well as over 150 other languages in the Deaf Welcome Network.
Donations will fund translators, laptops and solar power chargers. DWF will send technology enabled computers to Haiti with rescue workers and medical teams to use as tools to communicate back to families and professionals in the United States.
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