In the wake of the utter devastation inflicted by the earthquake in Haiti, the efforts and contributions of people everywhere are crucial. If you're looking for ways to help, try these organizations:
The U.S. State Department Operations Center has established a hotline for Americans seeking information about relatives in Haiti: (888) 407-4747.
The department cautioned that because of heavy volume, some callers may hear a recording.
Listed here are some leading examples of the many relief organizations which have mobilized for Haiti. Following is a list of relief organizations requesting donations, and other resources, arranged alphabetically. For independent evaluations of these groups, please see CharityNavigator.
If you are a member of an organization working to bring aid to Haiti and would like to be added to the list please email daniel.siegal@latimes.com with HAITI: HOW TO HELP in the subject line, and relevant information in the body, thanks.
• Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
• American Red Cross
• AmeriCares
• International Medical Corps
• Mercy Corps
• National Nurses United
• Save the Children
• Unicef
• United Nations World Food Program
• Yele Haiti
Alphabetical list of relief organizations:
• ActionAid International USA
• Action Against Hunger
• Adventist Development and Relief Agency
• Agape Flights
• American Refugee Committee
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• American Jewish World Service
• AmeriCares
• Artists for Peace and Justice
• Beyond Borders
• B'nai B'rith International
• CARE
• CarmaFoundation
• Catholic Relief Services
• CHF International
• Childcare Worldwide
• ChildFund International
• Church World Services
• Clinton Foundation
• Concern Worldwide
• Convoy of Hope
• Cross International
• CRUDEM Foundation
• CRWRC
• Direct Relief International
• Doctors Without Borders
• Episcopal Relief and Development
• Feed My Starving Children
• FINCA International
• Food for the Hungry
• Food for the Poor
• Friends of WFP
• Friends of the Orphans
• Grassroots International
• Habitat for Humanity
• Haiti Children
• Haiti Foundation Against Poverty
• Haitian Health Foundation
• Haiti Marycare
• Haitian Orthodox Mission
• Hands Together
• Healing Hands for Haiti
• Heifer International
• Helping Hands International Foundation
• Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
• Hope for Haiti
• Humane Society of the United States
• International Child Care
• International Medical Corps
• International Organization for Migration
• International Rescue Committee
• International Relief Teams
• Interpreters and Translators Volunteering for Haiti
• Islamic Relief USA
• Limbs For Life Foundation
• Logistics Cluster Blog
• Lutheran World Relief
• MADRE
• MAP International
• Medical Benevolence Foundation
• Medical Teams International
• Meds and Food for Kids
• Mennonite Central Committee
• Mercy Corps
• Merlin USA
• Missionaries of the Poor
• National Nurses United
• Nazarene Compassionate Ministries
• New Life for Haiti
• Operation Blessing
• Operation USA
• Oxfam
• Partners in Health
• Partners of the Americas
• Project Medishare
• Relief International
• RHEMA International
• Rural Haiti Project
• Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation
• Salvation Army
• Samaritan's Purse
• Save the Children
• ShelterBox
• Tzu Chi Foundation USA
• UNICEF
• United Methodist Committee on Relief
• United Nations World Food Program
• Water Missions International
• World Concern
• World Hope International
• World Relief
• World Vision
• Yele Haiti
The U.S. State Department Operations Center has established a hotline for Americans seeking information about relatives in Haiti: (888) 407-4747.
Listed here are some leading examples of the many relief organizations which have mobilized for Haiti. Following is a list of relief organizations requesting donations, and other resources, arranged alphabetically. For independent evaluations of these groups, please see CharityNavigator.
If you are a member of an organization working to bring aid to Haiti and would like to be added to the list please email daniel.siegal@latimes.com with HAITI: HOW TO HELP in the subject line, and relevant information in the body, thanks.
• Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
In response to a request from President Obama to help with both long- and short-term needs in Haiti, former President Bill Clinton and former President George W. Bush established the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (CBHF).
To contribute, you can visit their online donation page or mail a check to:
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
c/o William J. Clinton Foundation
Donations Department
610 President Clinton Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72201
or
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
c/o Communities Foundation of Texas
5500 Caruth Haven Lane
Dallas, TX 75225
To contribute, you can visit their online donation page or mail a check to:
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
c/o William J. Clinton Foundation
Donations Department
610 President Clinton Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72201
or
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
c/o Communities Foundation of Texas
5500 Caruth Haven Lane
Dallas, TX 75225
• American Red Cross
Disaster Online Newsroom
The American Red Cross is on the ground in Haiti.
Text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to American Red Cross relief for Haiti. The donation will be charged to your cellphone bill.
To send a check: American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, D.C. 20013;
1-800-REDCROSS or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish)
www.redcross.org
Spirit Airlines is offering 5,000 "free spirit" miles for donating to the Red Cross.
Choice Hotels is allowing members to use their points to donate to the American Red Cross Haiti relief effort.
The American Red Cross is on the ground in Haiti.
Text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to American Red Cross relief for Haiti. The donation will be charged to your cellphone bill.
To send a check: American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, D.C. 20013;
1-800-REDCROSS or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish)
www.redcross.org
Spirit Airlines is offering 5,000 "free spirit" miles for donating to the Red Cross.
Choice Hotels is allowing members to use their points to donate to the American Red Cross Haiti relief effort.
• AmeriCares
CNN's Ann Curry suggests donating to AmeriCares, who are "gearing up to take in medicines to Haiti," she says.
• International Medical Corps
Santa Monica-based International Medical Corps says it has an emergency response team providing medical care outside the general hospital near the presidential palace in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. Members of the team are also visiting hospitals around the city to assess their needs. The group is accepting donations on its website imcworldwide.org.
If the page will not load, call 310 826-7800 x119, or email donation@imcworldwide.org
If the page will not load, call 310 826-7800 x119, or email donation@imcworldwide.org
• Mercy Corps
A group of Mercy Corps relief workers began arriving in Haiti on Thursday.
Donate online: donate.mercycorps.org
To send a check:
Mercy Corps; Haiti Earthquake Fund; Dept NR; PO Box 2669; Portland, OR 97208
1-888-256-1900
Donate online: donate.mercycorps.org
To send a check:
Mercy Corps; Haiti Earthquake Fund; Dept NR; PO Box 2669; Portland, OR 97208
1-888-256-1900
• National Nurses United
www.nationalnursesunited.org
A national organization of registered nurses is calling for nurses throughout the U.S. to volunteer to assist Haitian residents by providing emergency short term and long term medical support. Nurses can sign up at the NNU Web site.
• Save the Children
Donate online: savethechildren.org
1-800-728-3843
Donate $10 by texting "SAVE" to 20222
Information on Save the Children's emergency response in Haiti here.
1-800-728-3843
Donate $10 by texting "SAVE" to 20222
Information on Save the Children's emergency response in Haiti here.
• Unicef
Donations to Unicef can be made online, by printing a form, or by calling 1.800.FOR.KIDS (1.800.367.5437).
Spirit Airlines is offering 5,000 "free spirit" miles for donating to Unicef.
Spirit Airlines is offering 5,000 "free spirit" miles for donating to Unicef.
• United Nations World Food Program
The United Nations World Food Program is the largest UN agency coordinating the response to the Haiti earthquake. Donations can be made at www.wfp.org.
• Yele Haiti
Haitian-born Wyclef Jean is asking his fans to donate to the community service organization he founded in Haiti, Yele Haiti. Donations can be made at the site, or automatically by texting YELE to 501501 to give $5. More information about Yele Haiti here.
Spirit Airlines is offering 5,000 "free spirit" miles for donating to Yele Haiti.
Spirit Airlines is offering 5,000 "free spirit" miles for donating to Yele Haiti.
Alphabetical list of relief organizations:
• ActionAid International USA
• Action Against Hunger
• Adventist Development and Relief Agency
• Agape Flights
• American Refugee Committee
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• American Jewish World Service
• AmeriCares
• Artists for Peace and Justice
• Beyond Borders
• B'nai B'rith International
• CARE
• CarmaFoundation
Donate online: www.carmafoundation.org
• Catholic Relief Services
• CHF International
• Childcare Worldwide
• ChildFund International
• Church World Services
• Clinton Foundation
Donate online: www.clintonfoundation.org
1-501-748-0471
Text "HAITI" to 20222 to donate $10 to the Clinton Foundation's Haiti relief efforts
1-501-748-0471
Text "HAITI" to 20222 to donate $10 to the Clinton Foundation's Haiti relief efforts
• Concern Worldwide
• Convoy of Hope
• Cross International
• CRUDEM Foundation
• CRWRC
• Direct Relief International
• Doctors Without Borders
• Episcopal Relief and Development
• Feed My Starving Children
• FINCA International
• Food for the Hungry
Donate online: http://www.fh.org
1-800-248-6437
1-800-248-6437
• Food for the Poor
• Friends of WFP
• Friends of the Orphans
• Grassroots International
• Habitat for Humanity
• Haiti Children
• Haiti Foundation Against Poverty
• Haitian Health Foundation
• Haiti Marycare
• Haitian Orthodox Mission
Donate online: www.haitianorthodoxmission.org
• Hands Together
• Healing Hands for Haiti
• Heifer International
Donate online: www.heifer.org
1-800-696-1918
Heifer has worked in Haiti for more than 10 years and currently works with more than 16,000 families in Haiti, providing gifts of livestock, seeds, trees and training, to help them become self-reliant.
1-800-696-1918
Heifer has worked in Haiti for more than 10 years and currently works with more than 16,000 families in Haiti, providing gifts of livestock, seeds, trees and training, to help them become self-reliant.
• Helping Hands International Foundation
Donate online: www.hhifinc.org
1-800-986-9640
Helping Hands International Foundation is organizing a medical relief team to go to Haiti on Feb. 7th, and needs medical supplies, especially pain medications Morphine and Dilaudid. They also have room for more doctors and nurses - interested parties should contact them at info@hhifinc.org
1-800-986-9640
Helping Hands International Foundation is organizing a medical relief team to go to Haiti on Feb. 7th, and needs medical supplies, especially pain medications Morphine and Dilaudid. They also have room for more doctors and nurses - interested parties should contact them at info@hhifinc.org
• Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
Donate online: www.hashaiti.org
A hospital 40 miles outside Port-au-Prince that needs all the help it can get to treat the 500+ patients currently seeking treatment at the 80 bed facility.
A hospital 40 miles outside Port-au-Prince that needs all the help it can get to treat the 500+ patients currently seeking treatment at the 80 bed facility.
• Hope for Haiti
• Humane Society of the United States
• International Child Care
• International Medical Corps
• International Organization for Migration
Donate online: www.iom.int
• International Rescue Committee
• International Relief Teams
• Interpreters and Translators Volunteering for Haiti
Sign up or look for a translator on Facebook
For those seeking translation resources relating to Haiti
For those seeking translation resources relating to Haiti
• Islamic Relief USA
• Limbs For Life Foundation
Visit the blog : HERE
1-405-843-5174
Limbs for Life hopes to send its first mission to the island and build 50 prosthetic limbs for Haiti by Feb. 15, 2010
1-405-843-5174
Limbs for Life hopes to send its first mission to the island and build 50 prosthetic limbs for Haiti by Feb. 15, 2010
• Logistics Cluster Blog
Visit the blog : HERE
Realtime updates from Haiti, plus information for volunteers and others who want to help.
Realtime updates from Haiti, plus information for volunteers and others who want to help.
• Lutheran World Relief
• MADRE
• MAP International
• Medical Benevolence Foundation
• Medical Teams International
• Meds and Food for Kids
• Mennonite Central Committee
• Mercy Corps
• Merlin USA
Donate online: merlin-usa.org
• Missionaries of the Poor
Donate online: www.missionariesofthepoor.org
1-404-248-1197
1-404-248-1197
• National Nurses United
• Nazarene Compassionate Ministries
• New Life for Haiti
• Operation Blessing
• Operation USA
• Oxfam
• Partners in Health
• Partners of the Americas
• Project Medishare
• Relief International
Donate online: www.ri.org/
• RHEMA International
• Rural Haiti Project
• Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation
Donate online: www.haitihealth.org
1-781-963-7243
1-781-963-7243
• Salvation Army
Donate online: salvationarmyusa.org
1-800-SAL-ARMY
1-800-SAL-ARMY
• Samaritan's Purse
• Save the Children
• ShelterBox
• Tzu Chi Foundation USA
Donate online: www.interaction.org/organization/taiwan-buddhist-tzu-chi-foundation-usa
1-626-487-4849
1-626-487-4849
• UNICEF
• United Methodist Committee on Relief
• United Nations World Food Program
Donate online: www.wfp.org/donate/haiti
• Water Missions International
• World Concern
• World Hope International
• World Relief
• World Vision
• Yele Haiti
Donate online: Yele Haiti.
