plus 3, Mexican leader seeks money, political will for 2010 climate deal from ... - Newser |
- Mexican leader seeks money, political will for 2010 climate deal from ... - Newser
- UPDATE 1-MOVES-BlackRock, ITM Power, Societe Generale - Reuters
- Economy Grows 5.7 Percent; Chicago PMI Jumps - CNBC
- Helping the victims of the Haiti Earthquake - DAILY KOS
| Mexican leader seeks money, political will for 2010 climate deal from ... - Newser Posted: 29 Jan 2010 08:49 AM PST With a worldwide shaky economic recovery under way, Felipe Calderon pleaded for aid and investment from executives and political leaders at the World Economic Forum, hoping to unite the world on a firm blueprint to slow the warming of the planet. This year's big U.N. climate change meeting _ being held Nov. 29-Dec. 10 in the Mexican resort of Cancun _ will be challenged to succeed where the 2009 meeting in Copenhagen failed. "We need to try to learn from our mistakes in Copenhagen," Calderon said. "If we can find an economic mechanism ... we will be on track." Calderon spoke a day after the United States took an important symbolic step by submitting targets to the U.N. climate body, pledging to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 _ using 2005 levels as a standard. But the commitment must be approved by Congress, which is not guaranteed. U.S. Congressman Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts who has pushed sustainable development policies, said he expected Congress to pass climate legislation by the end of the year. "The reason that I believe that will happen is that it is in our national security and long-term economic interests," Markey said at Davos. China and India _ key to any final accord _ have yet to submit their targets. Calderon said governments and the private sector should build cleaner energy plants in developing countries, make more efficient transport systems and support other projects to help poor nations reduce emissions as they grow and deal with the effects of global warming. Dan Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, said Calderon was "setting a high bar," warning of a general "climate fatigue" after Copenhagen. "There's really a question about whether the Congress will put forward a serious climate action plan," he said. Rich and developing countries clashed at Copenhagen over how much money each should contribute and how to spend it, but Calderon said the "economic costs associated with trying to tackle climate change" are central to the challenges facing governments. The Copenhagen Accord fell short of expectations, but included commitments by developed countries to provide billions of dollars in emergency funds to help poor countries adapt to climate change. It also invited countries to formally list their nonbinding targets to cut emissions by Jan. 31 _ or even later. U.N. climate change chief Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press on Friday that he was confident the business leaders in Davos would do more as profits bounce back after a rough couple of years. "Energy sector investments that were put on hold because of the crisis are beginning to be made again," he said. "I think people will take future climate change policy into account." De Boer insisted that a climate change accord was "feasible" in Mexico. But as countries shakily emerge from recession, a key challenge is ensuring that progress is environmentally effective but also won't break the bank. "In the private sector, we need clear targets," said Renault-Nissan head Carlos Ghosn, who has championed electric cars. He also encouraged closer cooperation among governments and the private sector. Meanwhile, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he fears governments might take funds away from health issues to fight climate change _ and says that could lead to many childhood deaths that otherwise would be prevented. "It would be a mistake on many fronts, because the health money not only saves lives but it reduces the population growth," he told a news conference in Davos, where he and his wife Melinda announced that their foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries. Gates said the commitment more than doubled the $4.5 billion the foundation has given to vaccine research so far, and the foundation said it could save up to 7.6 million children through 2019 as a result. From an unknown location, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden issued his own prescription for fighting climate change, calling Friday for a boycott of American goods and the U.S. dollar as he blamed the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming. Bin Laden said the way to stop climate change was to bring "the wheels of the American economy" to a halt. The authenticity of his latest audiotape could not immediately be confirmed. He did not mention China, which has surpassed the United States as the world's largest emitter of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The forum at Davos also honored Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for his "global statesmanship," but he could not attend the ceremony for health reasons. Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim received the award on Silva's behalf, saying the president viewed the honor as an "award for Brazil." ___ Associated Press writers Alexander G. Higgins and Bradley Klapper contributed to this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| UPDATE 1-MOVES-BlackRock, ITM Power, Societe Generale - Reuters Posted: 29 Jan 2010 08:27 AM PST (Adds dateline, BlackRock) NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Friday. To inform us of other job changes, send an email to moves@thomsonreuters.com. BLACKROCK (BLK.N) Asset manager BlackRock Inc hired Kendrick Wilson III, a former Goldman Sachs executive and Treasury Department adviser, as a vice chairman. Wilson will join the Office of BlackRock Chairman and CEO Laurence Fink. Fink said Wilson will be able to assist clients as they assess the changing investment landscape. SOCIETE GENERALE (SOGN.PA) The bank's cross asset research division made three appointments -- Michala Marcussen, Alejandro Cuadrado and Takuji Okubo -- to its global economics research team. Marcussen, who joins from the company's asset management division, will serve as global head of economics. Marcussen will report to Benoit Hubaud, deputy head of global research. Cuadrado, who will be based in New York, has joined as Latin America economist, while Okubo, who will be based in Tokyo, has joined as chief economist Japan. Both Cuadrado and Okubo previously worked at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (BAC.N) and will report to Marcussen. BHARTIYA SAMRUDDHI FINANCE LTD The company appointed Sajeev Viswanathan as chief executive and managing director. Viswanathan was formerly with Citigroup (C.N). FUTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS The investment firm appointed Glen Stewart as business development manager. Stewart, formerly a sales manager for Deloitte & Touche DLTE.UL, will report to Piers Denne as part of a business development team. (Compiled by Viraj Nair in Bangalore, Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Boston, and Steve Eder in New York) Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Economy Grows 5.7 Percent; Chicago PMI Jumps - CNBC Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:47 AM PST The U.S. economy grew at a faster-than-expected 5.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter, the quickest in more than six years, as businesses made less-aggressive cuts to inventories and stepped up spending. Separately, The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago said on Friday its index of Midwest business activity rose more than expected in January to 61.5 from 58.7 in December. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a January figure of 57.4. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the regional economy. The Commerce Department said on Friday its first estimate put fourth-quarter gross domestic product growth at its fastest pace since the third quarter of 2003. The economy expanded at a 2.2 percent annual rate in the third quarter. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast GDP, which measures total goods and services output within U.S. borders, growing at a 4.6 percent rate in October-December period. President Barack Obama said the report showed a "stark improvement" compared to economic decline a year ago. "This morning we received a report that affirms our progress and the swift and aggressive actions that made it possible," he said, adding that job growth was lagging despite economic growth. The White House hailed the report as "the most positive news to date on the economy." "It is important not to read too much into a single report, positive or negative," White House economist Christina Romer said. "There will surely be bumps in the road ahead ... Nonetheless, today's report is a welcome piece of encouraging news." Romer made clear that the latest economic figures only reinforced President Barack Obama's intention to make job creation, which has lagged as the economy emerged from deep recession, his administration's top priority. "While positive GDP growth is a necessary first step for job growth, our focus must remain on getting Americans back to work," she said. "That GDP rose strongly in the fourth quarter of last year while employment fell and the workweek increased only slightly emphasizes the need for policy actions designed to help spur private sector job creation." U.S. stock index futures extended gains on the data, while Treasury debt prices deepened losses. U.S. dollar rose against the yen. Getting the economy on a sustainable growth track remains one of the key challenges facing President Barack Obama, who on Wednesday outlined a raft of measures to create jobs and nurture the recovery. Growth was boosted a sharp slowdown in the pace of inventory liquidation, a factor that could mask the strength of the economic recovery from the longest and deepest downturn since the Great Depression. But even stripping out inventories, the economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.2 percent, accelerating from the 1.5 percent increase in the third quarter, reflecting relatively strong performance from other segments of the economy. "Wow, great number. It's very solid and gives us a running start into the second half of the year when we can't rely on government stimulus," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago. "That's part of the plan, to get us moving as fast as possible so when life support is removed we'll have a pulse." Business inventories fell only $33.5 billion in fourth quarter after dropping $139.2 billion in the July-September period. The change in inventories alone added 3.39 percentage points to GDP in the last quarter. This was the biggest percentage contribution since the fourth quarter of 1987. For the whole of 2009, the economy contracted 2.4 percent, the biggest decline since 1946, the first year after the end of World War II. In the last three months of 2009, consumer spending increased at a 2 percent annual rate, below the 2.8 percent annual pace in the prior quarter when consumption got a boost from the government's "cash for clunkers" program. In the fourth quarter, consumer spending contributed 1.44 percentage points to GDP. Consumer spending, which normally accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity, has been held back by the worst labor market in a quarter century. Business investment in the fourth quarter grew for the first time since the second quarter of 2008 as the drag from the troubled commercial real estate was offset by robust spending on equipment and software. Business investment rose at a 2.9 percent rate after falling 5.9 percent over the previous three-month period. The growth of spending on new home construction braked sharply in the fourth quarter to an annual rate of 5.7 percent from an 18.9 percent pace in the third quarter. Home building has received a lift from a popular tax credit for first-time buyers, but recent data have hinted at some weakness starting to creep in. Export growth outpaced imports, leaving a trade gap that contributed half a percentage point to GDP growth in the last quarter. Separately, employment costs in the United States rose 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter, Labor Department data showed. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the Employment Cost Index to increase 0.4 percent in the three months ending in December 2009, after it inched up an unrevised 0.4 percent in the prior quarter. Wages and salaries, which make up about 70 percent of compensation, and benefits were both up 0.5 percent, the Labor Department said. Also, business activity in New York City expanded in January for the sixth straight month, reaching its highest level in over three years, according to an industry report released on Friday. The Institute for Supply Management-New York's seasonally adjusted index of current business conditions rose to 72.6 in January from an upwardly revised 64.5 in December, originally reported as 59.7. It was the group's highest current conditions reading since November 2006. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Helping the victims of the Haiti Earthquake - DAILY KOS Posted: 29 Jan 2010 08:35 AM PST
The now requisite warnings: Unfortunately even in the midst of tragedy, there are those who will try to take advantage of people's generosity for their personal advantage. A story on MSNBC reminds us to be careful:
Government Agencies Center for International Disaster Information has information on the humanitarian disaster, with links. There's an answer to the questions as to whether or not to give donations of goods. For the public, the answer is no, cash is better. (h/t dibsa) Disasters Emergency Committee is the umbrella group for Great Britain, which the British government is asking their citizens to donate to. (h/t NY brit expat) Pan-American Relief PADF is the natural disaster relief arm of the Organization of American States' Pan-American Development Fund. It has more than 150 people working Haiti on economic development, disaster mitigation and protecting human rights. PADF is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, D.C. The State Department has set up another cellphone donation link: Text "HAITI" to 90999 and you will be charged for a $10 donation to relief efforts. Americans seeking info on family members in Haiti, call 888-407-4747. An e-mail address has been set up as well, along with information for making inquiries. Please check the State Department's site for the proper information. UNICEF. At a glance: Haiti There is a donation page for Haiti here. Additionally, CoinStar has set up a program for people to donate their loose change to UNICEF. To make a donation, consumers simply take their coin jar to one of more than 15,000 participating locations, select the "donate" option from the menu and choose The U.S. Fund for UNICEF, special code 5556. Donors receive a tax receipt for the full amount of their donation and funds are transferred to UNICEF within 48 hour. (Updated 1/22/10 h/t mydailydrunk) United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund, with donations here. (h/t aaraujo) USAID - USAID Responds immediately to Haiti earthquake World Food Programme Update: See ImpeccableLiberalCredentials' diary on behalf of Friends of the World Food Program and the United Nations World Food Programme's pledge to feed 2 million News Organizations have also compiled reliable NGO lists: Secular NGOs: AARP Foundation has a matching gift program going: (h/t Terre)
AmeriCares Their donation page is here. AmeriCares restores health and saves lives by delivering donated medicines, medical supplies and humanitarian aid to people in need around the world and here at home. California Nurses Association call for volunteers. Another good link is the National Nurses United In addition: * @NationalNurses on twitter or by following: #haitiRN * Call the RNRN hotline: 1-800-578-8225 * Support the RNRN/NNU disaster relief effort in Haiti by donating at Send A Nurse or by sending checks c/o California Nurses Foundation, 2000 Franklin St., Oakland, CA 94612. Charitable contributions will be used to pay for travel/related costs and medical supplies for volunteer RNs on their emergency nursing mission in Haiti. (h/t Valadon) CARE is one of the world's largest private international humanitarian organizations. They were already in Haiti, and CARE is deploying additional emergency team members to the devastated city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Chances for Children works to identify orphaned or abandoned children who are victims of severe poverty and neglect in Haiti. You can donate to them here. Can-Do.org is intensely dedicated to working on the local level to provide lasting solutions to some of the world's most critical issues, from environmental degradation to natural disasters, humanitarian crises to educational inequity. Their donation page is here. Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Through the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, we will work to provide immediate relief and long-term support to earthquake survivors. We will channel the collective goodwill around the globe to help the people of Haiti rebuild their cities, their neighborhoods, and their families. Donations can be made here. Direct Relief International sent a 40-foot container of ongoing aid the day of the earthquake. Direct Relief works with Partners in Health (see below) and their efforts will concentrate on rebuilding hospital infrastructure. h/t Dallasdoc for update. Doctors Without Borders (aka Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) is an international group of medical professionals who work in chronically underserved countries, emergency sites and refugee camps around the world. Here is the latest news of their work in Haiti from their site, MSF Teams Set up Clinics to Treat Injured After Facilities Are Damaged. ***Update (h/t NY brit expat) Inability to get new staff and supplies a serious problem. Hanger Orthopedic Group is accepting donated durable medical equipment (prosthetics, wheelchairs, walkers, canes and crutches), including gently used equipment, for distribution by Physicians for Peace and Project Hope (both rated 4 stars by Charity Navigator), for Haiti relief. To find one of Hanger's 600 locations near you, click here or call 877-4Hanger. Help HIV patients in Haiti by donating to GHESKIO through Cornell Medical School. (h/t Hyde Park). To read more about this organization, go to GHESKIO's site and click "English" (the main site is in French). Healing Hands for Haiti (a physical rehab and prosthetics organization based in Port au Prince), Lamp for Haiti, and a group that umbrellas several projects called Healing Haiti. parryander has personal experience with these groups, so I suggest checking out their comments. Handicap International has approximately 20 expatriate staff and 130 Haitian colleagues are now involved in Handicap International's emergency response operations in Haiti, which includes caring for the injured, postoperative rehabilitation, the fitting of artificial limbs and the distribution of humanitarian aid and temporary shelters. Another organization, The Honor and Respect Foundation, was described in a story on Narconews, called Getting Help to Haiti. The foundation was created by journalist Reed Lindsay, who is now Telsur's D.C. Bureau Chief, for children who couldn't get into other schools. Their website says that it "seeks to establish funds in support of several specific programs carried out by grassroots groups in the poorest neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince." I have a phone number for a contact there and will get direct information tonight. The International Committee of the Red Cross is of course a standby of emergency response throughout the world. Though the American Red Cross took a hit for administrative costs in the wake of Katrina, few NGOs have the reach or the resources of the ICRC. The International Medical Corps. It is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Donations can be made here. (h/t glassbeadgame) Mercy Corps is an excellent organization that is preparing an aid mission. Mercy Corps also allows you to donate through PayPal, Google Checkout and Amazon Payments, if this helps. Oxfam International provides assistance to victims of emergencies and ongoing disasters throughout the world. They are mobilizing to provide emergency assistance to victims in Haiti, and your donations will also help people in places like Darfur as well. This is the direct link to support Oxfam's Haiti relief effort. Update: Dallasdoc in the comments tells us that a BBC report says that Oxfam will be focusing on clean water and sanitation--clean water will, obviously, be one of the most important needs. JekyllnHyde shares an e-mail from Al Gore in support of Oxfam. Another way to support Oxfam is through Care2's"Click to donate" program. Clicking on their link will generate a donation from their sponsors. One click per day. Partners in Health has now started a BLOG about its efforts called Stand with Haiti. It has very useful information. Partners in Health is also putting out a call for health volunteers, in case you are a medical professional who can help out that way:
Update 1/29, PIH Stand With Haiti Matching funds:
Physicians for Peace was founded in 1989, dedicated to the ideal that health care in the developing world can best be improved by providing training and education to health care professionals in those countries. They are currently in Haiti, and getting ready for long-term work on rehabilitation and recovery for amputees and handicapped people in Haiti. Portlight Strategies is gearing up to help Haitians with disabilities in the wake of the disaster. Project HOPEis one of the oldest medical relief organizations. They currently have people in Haiti working together with the USNS Comfort, as well as on the ground working to deliver medical aid. Their donation page is here Pure Water for the World, which already has a presence in Haiti and is partnered with USAID to provide clean drinking water to the people of Haiti. (h/t parryander and AntKat) Saint Damien Hospital Haiti is the only free pediatric hospital in Haiti.
Donations may be made through this page. (h/t parryander) Save The Children has been working in Haiti since 1985. It has provided emergency relief and assistance to Haitian children and families following various recent disasters, including hurricanes and floods, and they are once again mobilizing. ShelterBox USA, which provides prepackaged shelter. TexMex is coordinating an impressive effort to drive donations to ShelterBox. As of posting, the number of ShelterBoxes purchased by Kossacks is 106 and counting! Soles4Souls is a Nashville-based charity that collects shoes from individuals and the warehouses of footwear companies and distributes them to people in need (while also helping the environment). [h/t Cedwyn] TÉLÉCOMS SANS FRONTIÈRES. Communications infrastructure has been completely destroyed and helping to bring that back online will be a huge help to recovery efforts and to allow Haitians to get in touch with family they may have elsewhere in the world. (h/t yg17) V-Day is an organization that works to prevent violence against women, and funds safe houses and anti-violence movements. They had a safe house in Haiti, and are now starting a rescue fund. Veterans of Foreign Wars is assisting in humanitarian efforts in Haiti by providing U.S. service members — with relatives currently located in Haiti — with the funds necessary to purchase airline tickets to the devastated island, so that they may locate, assist or make burial arrangements for relatives affected by the recent earthquake. Funds also may be used to help provide sustenance or other necessities to sustain life. Zanmi Lakay is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for current and former street children in Haiti by providing educational and economic opportunities and resources to help these children while they are on the streets and to help build a life for them off the streets. A Pacifica-based photographer who has been working in Haiti for years is planning to return next week, so donations will go straight to those who need it. Social Networking Efforts: Facebook Group Earthquake Haiti (h/t BCO Gal) Animals will be in trouble as well. Animal Rescue and Relief. Donations can be made to: a href="https://www.bestfriends.org/donate/Haiti.cfm">Best Friends Animal Society. The earthquake in Haiti was devastating to humans and animals alike. But today, you can help. 100 percent of your donation will go directly to help animals suffering in the aftermath of the earthquake. Best Friends is a part of the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti (ARCH), and your support will provide food, water, rabies vaccinations, safety and more for countless animals. Humane Society International, (h/t Mr. Rick)
Architecture for Humanity is going to be primarily working in the reconstruction phase of post disaster situations and will be focused on transitional and permanent housing and community structures. We are partnering with AIDG, Yele Haiti and other local group by supplying them pro bono construction and design professionals, setting up community housing resource centers and support in the design and building of earthquake resistant structures. Crisis Commons is organizing for Crisis Camp Haiti. CrisisCommons brings together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief. h/t to Buffalo Girl FINCA International is a microfinance organization whose mission is to provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living. They have a presence in Haiti already and are taking donations for relief. (h/t calNM) Habitat for Humanity is planning a multiphase strategy that includes early recovery and mid- and long-term responses. Habitat is addressing shelter solutions for low-income families. (h/t x) Fonkoze, a micro-lending organization in Haiti. From their Web site:
According to their Web site, their offices have taken quite a hit. This is another one in the category of long-term rebuilding. (h/t parryander and dizzydean) Heifer International. Though not first responders, this group does long term infrastructural work. HI currently has 16 projects under way with more than 16,000 families and several farmer associations. The projects in Haiti, which are scattered around the country, with none close to Port-au-Prince, range from training in sustainable farming and crop diversity to gifts of livestock, seeds, trees and grains to training in nutrition, aquaculture and fish production. (h/t PrometheusUnbound) The Jean Cadet Restavek Foundation. Restaveks are child slaves. This is an organization for children run by a Haitian man who is a former child slave. Konpay is associated with the journalist Reed Lindsay. It focuses on Haitian solutions to environmental, social and economic problems and provides training and funding to grassroots and community-based projects. KONPAY is supporting Haitian-led efforts to reforest Haiti and protect the environment. The Lambi Fund, a secular non-profit nonprofit whose mission is "to assist the popular, democratic movement in Haiti. Its goal is to help strengthen civil society as a necessary foundation of democracy and development. The fund channels financial and other resources to community-based organizations that promote the social and economic empowerment of the Haitian people." They support "projects that embrace the following principles: non-violent, non-partisan, community-based, promoting the advancement of women, using education and training for empowerment, and promoting the overall democratic movement." SOIL is based in Haiti (founded by two American females) and although their regular mission is :Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti, they are in the streets in PAP providing normal disaster relief services and translation (they speak Kreyol). They have said that all donations in the next 30 days (at least) will go directly to their relief work rather than their usual mission. They have been in Haiti for several years and are very familiar with the people and communities (h/t Royce) Yele Haiti is a grassroots movement that builds global awareness for Haiti while helping to transform the country through programs in education, sports, the arts and environment. Yéle's community service programs include food distribution and mobilizing emergency relief. Grammy-Award winning musician, humanitarian and Goodwill Ambassador to Haiti Wyclef Jean founded Yéle Haiti in 2005. Cell carriers will send on a $5 donation on your account if you text YELE to 501501. Update 01/16/10: Some questions have been raised about this charity. I'm leaving it in the links, but you may want to proceed with caution. (Norbrook) Religious Groups: The Quakers' American Friends Service Committee, with its stellar track record of aid. (h/t LNK) American Jewish World Service Haiti Relief. (h/t The YENTA Of The Opera). Donations to AJWS for Haiti relief are currently supporting 10 Community-based Organizations including Konpay, The Lambi Fund of Haiti, Mouvman Peyizan Rankit (MPR), Mouvman Peyzan Bayone 2eme Section Communale des Gonaives, Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante and Fonkoze. For more info, see AWJS' Haiti Emergency. Anglican Relief and Development (h/t aaraujo) Catholic Relief Services, a faith group, already on the ground in Haiti. (h/t cybernun) Church World Service. (h/t Frederick Clarkson) Convoy of Hope a nonprofit that networks with churches in the community where need exists. Provides necessities like food and water. Has Charity Navigator's highest rating year after year and was already in Haiti when the earthquake struck. (h/t DeepHarm) Episcopal Relief & Development Haiti Fund. (h/t aaraujo) Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is also collecting donations, and will use 100% of the donations for relief. (h/t ecologist) IMA World Health, which is a faith based nonprofit organization that provides health care services and supplies. (h/t leevank) International Orthodox Christian Charities. "IOCC in the spirit of Christ's love offers emergency relief and development programs to those in need worldwide, without discrimination, and strengthen the capacity of the Orthodox Church to so respond." (h/t Pam from Calif) The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, which has started a Haitian Earthquake Relief Fund. According to the website, 100% of funds collected will go to aid - JUF will absorb all administrative costs. (h/t Sister Havana) Little by Little, (h/t Dan in Illinois) The Mennonite Central Committee, a relief-and-development organization with staff currently in Haiti. (h/t AnnieJo) Mission's Door which has facilities and operations in Haiti. If interested they have a donation page here, if you want donations to go to Haiti click "Haiti Earthquake Relief Project." (h/t Abraham Running For Congress When I Turn 25) Presbyterian Church (USA) they have a separate account for Haiti, the donation link can be found here. The Salvation Army, who already has people on the ground in Haiti. (h/t Catte Nappe) The United Methodist Committee on Relief which uses 100% of donations for relief. (h/t drmah) The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is also taking donations. "UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies." (h/t antimony) World Vision, a faith group already on the ground in Haiti. You can also sponsor a Haitian child under their care. (h/t cybernun) TEXT a Donation: This is a quick, easy way to donate; the donations are simply added to your cell phone bill, and the amounts are small, and possibly a more affordable option for many. NPR did a story on donating via text--The Red Cross alone reports $4.7 million dollars in text message donations for Haitian relief thus far! Here's a list of ways to donate via text, from betson08, with update by thebluecrayon:
Note: Someone mentioned texting the word "STOP" after sending a text donation to avoid a recurring fee on your cell phone bill--however, I don't know if anyone has confirmed whether this is necessary in all cases. Something to keep in mind if you text donations. If you have iTunes, Apple has a link set up where you can donate $10 to $100 dollars instantly. (h/t Brainwrap) Other news and diaries: An update to the previous diary version that really highlights the effectiveness of this community in times of crisis like this:
There are two excellent liveblogs by mindoca. This is the first one and this is the second. If you need more specific information, these are a great place to start. Mindoca has spent time in Haiti and offers a true first-hand view of disaster relief and Haiti itself. By dharmafarmer, a photo diary on relief efforts. Scioto provides helpful information about the circumstances under which various credit card fees may be waived for charitable donations. VA gentlewoman has a diary about the infrastructure details for Haiti. Thank you for your reads, recs, and donations. If anyone has any additional information, updates, or corrections, please comment--the comments in all of the diary versions thus far have been gold mines of information. It would be impossible to incorporate all of the information gathered in the comments into the diary, but I will updated as necessary/possible. If you would like to keep this list of links visible, please consider volunteering to post a diary so we can keep this effort going. Many Kossacks helped this community assemble one of the most exhaustive list of aid organizations working in Haiti, now placed in the dKosopedia wiki by the wonderful Norbrook. Please visit that list, which has been updated here over the past ten days to reflect the input of our wonderful and humane community. As the Shelterbox Diaries have shown in raising funds for over 1000 Haitians to have a place to stay, we are liberals who walk our talk about caring for our fellow human beings.
UPCOMING DIARIES Friday PM: RunawayRose If you would like to volunteer to contribute a diary to continue this series, please volunteer in the comments below. Norbrook has created a Google document with the source code for our usual introduction and the list of charities the community has developed. Doing one of these diaries, thanks to Norbrook, is not nearly as demanding as it was early in the series. Also, updates need to be made far less frequently. You don't need to set aside huge chunks of time for it and it's easy to multi-task if you have other things to do, as long as you're able to check the comments every 30 minutes or so. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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