Haiti: Resources and how to help

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 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Alphabetical list of relief organizations:

• ActionAid International USA Donate online: www.actionaidusa.org
1-202-835-1240

• Action Against Hunger Donate online: www.actionagainsthunger.org
1-800-424-2372

• Adventist Development and Relief Agency Donate online: www.adra.org
1-877-777-1420

• Agape Flights Donate online: www.agapeflights.com
1-941-584-8078

• American Refugee Committee Donate online: www.arcrelief.org
1-800-875-7060

• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Donate online: www.jdc.org
1-212-687-6200

• American Jewish World Service Donate online: ajws.org
1-212-792-2900

• AmeriCares Donate online: www.americares.org
1-800-486-4357

• Artists for Peace and Justice Donate online: www.artistsforpeaceandjustice.com
info@artistsforpeaceandjustice.com

• Beyond Borders Donate online: www.beyondborders.net
1-866-424-8403

• B’nai B’rith International Donate online: www.bnaibrith.org
1-202-857-6600

• CARE Donate online: www.care.org
1-800-521-2273

• CarmaFoundation Donate online: www.carmafoundation.org

• Catholic Relief Services Donate online: crs.org
1-800-736-3467

• CHF International Donate online: www.chfinternational.org
1-866-779-2243

• Childcare Worldwide Donate online: www.childcareworldwide.org
1-800-553-2328

• ChildFund International Donate online: www.childfund.org
1-800-776-6767

• Church World Services Donate online: www.churchworldservice.org
1-800-297-1516

• 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

• Concern Worldwide Donate online: www.concernusa.org
1-212-557-8000

• Convoy of Hope Donate online: www.convoyofhope.org
1-417-823-8998

• Cross International Donate online: www.crossinternational.org
1-800-391-8545

• CRUDEM Foundation Donate online: www.crudem.org
1-413-642-0450

• CRWRC Donate online: www.crwrc.org
1-800-55-CRWRC

• Direct Relief International Donate online: www.directrelief.org
1-805-964-4767

• Doctors Without Borders Donate online: doctorswithoutborders.org
1-888-392-0392

• Episcopal Relief and Development Donate online: www.er-d.org
1-800-334-7626

• Feed My Starving Children Donate online: www.fmsc.org
1-763-504-2919

• FINCA International Donate online: www.villagebanking.org
1-202-682-1510

• Food for the Hungry Donate online: https://www.fh.org
1-800-248-6437

• Food for the Poor Donate online: www.foodforthepoor.org
1-800-427-9104

• Friends of WFP Donate online: www.friendsofwfp.org
1-866-929-1694

• Friends of the Orphans Donate online: www.friendsoftheorphans.org
1-312-386-7499

• Grassroots International Donate online: www.grassrootsonline.org
1-617-524-1400

• Habitat for Humanity Donate online: www.habitat.org
1-800-422-4828

• Haiti Children Donate online: www.haitichildren.com
1-877-424-8454

• Haiti Foundation Against Poverty Donate online: haitifoundation.com
1-616-608-6606

• Haitian Health Foundation Donate online: www.haitianhealthfoundation.org
1-860-886-4357

• Haiti Marycare Donate online: www.haitimarycare.com
1-203-675-4770

• Haitian Orthodox Mission Donate online: www.haitianorthodoxmission.org

• Hands Together Donate online: www.handstogether.org
1-413-731-7716

• Healing Hands for Haiti Donate online: www.healinghandsforhaiti.org
1-651-769-5846

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Hope for Haiti Donate online: www.hopeforhaiti.com
1-239-434-7183

• Humane Society of the United States Donate online: www.humanesociety.org
1-301-258-8276

• International Child Care Donate online: www.internationalchildcare.org
1-800-722-4453

• International Medical Corps Donate online: www.imcworldwide.org
1-800-481-4462

• International Organization for Migration Donate online: www.iom.int

• International Rescue Committee Donate online: www.theirc.org
1-877-733-8433

• International Relief Teams Donate online: www.irteams.org
1-619-284-7979

• Interpreters and Translators Volunteering for Haiti Sign up or look for a translator on Facebook
For those seeking translation resources relating to Haiti

• Islamic Relief USA Donate online: www.islamicreliefusa.org
1-888-479-4968

• 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

• Logistics Cluster Blog Visit the blog : HERE
Realtime updates from Haiti, plus information for volunteers and others who want to help.

• Lutheran World Relief Donate online: www.lwr.org
1-800-597-5972

• MADRE Donate online: www.madre.org
1-212-627-0444

• MAP International Donate online: www.map.org
1-800-225-8550

• Medical Benevolence Foundation Donate online: www.mbfoundation.org
1-800-547-7627

• Medical Teams International Donate online: www.medicalteams.org
1-800-959-4325

• Meds and Food for Kids Donate online: mfkhaiti.org
1-314-420-1634

• Mennonite Central Committee Donate online: mcc.org
1-888-563-4676

• Mercy Corps Donate online: www.mercycorps.org
1-888-256-1900

• Merlin USA Donate online: merlin-usa.org

• Missionaries of the Poor Donate online: www.missionariesofthepoor.org
1-404-248-1197

• National Nurses United www.nationalnursesunited.org

• Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Donate online: www.ncm.org
1-800-306-9950

• New Life for Haiti Donate online: newlifeforhaiti.org
1-815-436-7633

• Operation Blessing Donate online: community.ob.org
1-800-730-2537

• Operation USA Donate online: www.opusa.org
1-800-678-7255

• Oxfam Donate online: www.oxfamamerica.org
1-800-776-9326

• Partners in Health Donate online: www.pih.org
1-617-432-5298

• Partners of the Americas Donate online: www.partners.net
1-202-628-3300

• Project Medishare Donate online: www.projectmedishare.org
1-305-762-6448

• Relief International Donate online: www.ri.org/

• RHEMA International Donate online: rhemainternational.org
1-248-652-9894

• Rural Haiti Project Donate online: www.ruralhaitiproject.org
1-347-405-5552

• Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation Donate online: www.haitihealth.org
1-781-963-7243

• Salvation Army Donate online: salvationarmyusa.org
1-800-SAL-ARMY

• Samaritan’s Purse Donate online: www.samaritanspurse.org
1-828-262-1980

• Save the Children Donate online: www.savethechildren.org
1-800-728-3843
Donate $10 by texting “SAVE” to 20222

• ShelterBox Donate online: www.shelterbox.org
+44(0)1326-569782 [U.K.]

• Tzu Chi Foundation USA Donate online: www.interaction.org/organization/taiwan-buddhist-tzu-chi-foundation-usa
1-626-487-4849

• UNICEF Donate online: www.unicefusa.org/haitiquake
1-800-367-5437

• United Methodist Committee on Relief Donate online: new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/
1-800-554-8583

• United Nations World Food Program Donate online: www.wfp.org/donate/haiti

• Water Missions International Donate online: www.watermissions.org
1-866-280-7107

• World Concern Donate online: www.worldconcern.org
1-800-755-5022

• World Hope International Donate online: www.worldhope.org
1-888-466-4673

• World Relief Donate online: worldrelief.org
1-800-535-5433

• World Vision Donate online: www.worldvision.org
1-888-511-6548

• Yele Haiti Donate online: Yele Haiti.