Comments on: TROPICAL RELIEF FOR HAITI

By: rachel

rachel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:48:50 +0000

following up, curious if ya settled on what to donate to.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:47:49 +0000

Thanks for doing this show. Its great that you raised so much money and I had a great time too. Also, one question about a tune in Matt’s set. I’m a little hazy on it now, but it was somewhere near the middle of the set and was kind of fast paced, hard beats, a woman’s voice, with a sort of “rrroom rroom” kind of lyric somewhere in there. Not very good description, I know but if you’re able to figure it out from this, I dug the tune and would like to find out more about the artist.

By: anne

anne — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:50:06 +0000

that was a ton of fun, got me outta hibernating, thanks dutty artz!!

By: Akwaaba boy

Akwaaba boy — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:00:53 +0000

Good lookin out doods… wish i could be there!!

By: matt

matt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:14:22 +0000

1. Servicio Jesuita para Refugiados y Migrantes (Jesuit Service for Refugees and Immigrants)

To Donate:Please deposit payments in the bank account: Banco Popular, Centro Bonó, 734510795

If the payment is in check form, make the check out to “Centro Bonó”.

Contact for donations:

Ana Coronado

Encargada de Investigación

Centro Jesuita de Refugiados

enc.investigacion@sjrdom.org

est.sociales@codetel.net.do

(809) 682-4448

For more information:

- Bonó: (809) 682-4448; (809) 688-1646

- Centro Hurtado, Servir-D: (809) 535-2977

- Centro Bellarmino: (809) 582-6998

- CEFASA: (809) 736-8272

- Solidaridad Fronteriza: (809) 579-8993

- Dirección electrónica: direccion@bono.org.do; p.mella@bono.org.do

2. Partners in Health (PiH)

PiH is widely considered the best health aid organization in Haiti, where they have a large highly trained staff, nearly all Haitian. Perhaps most important, their facilities are located in various rural places outside Port au Prince, and were not damaged by this quake, so they were able to respond immediately and are better positioned to help than many organizations whose own staff and facilities were direct victims.

To Donate:

https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake?source=earthquake&subsource=standwithhaiti

Cheers,
matt

By: MikeM

MikeM — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:36:31 +0000

This councilmember offers a few suggestions for donations on his blog post: http://vincentgentile.blogspot.com/2010/01/helping-haiti.html

By: tht

tht — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:30:03 +0000

um, ok. un cerf was just a suggestion since you guys asked for some legit ones, not sure why my comment was removed.

By: rachel

rachel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:18:43 +0000

blah, if its posted anyway, end of comment: I worked for SNEP, national potable water service, who moniter & improve water quality. all good people who always need $ for equipment (everything they got is ngo hand me downs) esp needed now. maybe try sending $ direct to some of these gov agencies, kinda like reparations for our buying their wacko french slavery debt.

By: rachel

rachel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:57:37 +0000

ahhh comp just froze, didnt mean to post that at all!! plz delete me defaming former employer bad idea bad idea

By: paul j.

paul j. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:03:32 +0000

Here is a blog post I read with some basic info I read about how to donate money to good charities and avoid scams.

By: Dutty Artz Haiti Benefit Party, Sat. Jan 16th | Culture System

Dutty Artz Haiti Benefit Party, Sat. Jan 16th | Culture System — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:47:21 +0000

[...] to go out on Saturday and make it count for someone who truly needs help? Then roll through this spot. Even if you can’t donate money yourself, at least spread the [...]

By: tht

tht — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:26:05 +0000

the un is taking (tax-deductible, secure) donations by card and check through unicef, the world food program, the world health organization, and the central emergency response fund (cerf).

cerf is the best place you can give to right now b/c they specifically do rapid disaster and first response relief and have people on the ground to make things happen…

http://www.unfoundation.org/donate/cerf.html

many of my colleagues here at the un and the various missions made personal donations in the last 2 days to cerf. member states are also putting money into the same fund.

here is some more info on what cerf does in haiti:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7ZP54E?OpenDocument&RSS20=18-P

thanks for getting this together.

By: Mo

Mo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:29:56 +0000

Perhaps Partners In Health?: http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/01/helping_haiti.php

By: belu

belu — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:54:29 +0000

This looks great—I think donations will probably be best used by organizations that already have operations bases (however devastated those bases are now) on the ground in Haiti. UNICEF.org and MSF.org are two major organizations already deep in the response (and trying to get the status of their own crews who were operating there before the earthquake).

I hope to see you guys Saturday!