Text Donations Facilitate Impulse Giving But Not Long-Term Donations, Study Says
The best way to reach busy, distracted donors? Make it easy. The ability to send small donations using mobile phones facilitates “impulse giving...
The best way to reach busy, distracted donors? Make it easy. The ability to send small donations using mobile phones facilitates “impulse giving...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 01.25.2012
As filmmaker Michele Mitchell prepares to screen her new documentary film, "Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?," on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon, the Am...
Posted 01.11.2012
Thursday marks the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake that killed 316,000 people, but experts say it could be at least another 10 years before...
Kieran Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011
When you dash in and out of people's lives, whatever assistance you offer is always limited, and sometimes entirely hamstrung, by the complexity of a new and separate reality. If I am grasping nothing else, it's that Haiti's reality is very complex.
Posted 05.25.2011
As the world focuses its attention on the devastation that Haiti faces one year after a 7.0 quake, it can be hard for anyone to comprehend what a disa...
Huffington Post | Nicole Larson | Posted 05.25.2011
Angelcare presents "All For Angels," a benefit for Haiti Relief, this Wednesday at Central in Santa Monica. Proceeds from the benefit--which takes pla...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations has launched a new website to ensure the efficient use of the more than $9 billion in aid pledged to Haiti a...
Posted 05.25.2011
Gitmo detainees have been collecting unopened containers of food and beverages to give to victims of Haiti's earthquake, according to a lawyer for one...
Samuel A. Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
Critics of the NGO response in Haiti have begun to ask why the money raised has not been spent more quickly. But they misunderstand the fact that each phase of disaster response is exhaustive and expensive.
George Rupp | Posted 05.25.2011
This week's International Donors' Conference could mean the difference between life and death for many in Haiti. It's our hope that governments agree upon long-term reconstruction commitments.
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 05.25.2011
UNITED NATIONS — The Haitian government will be seeking about $3.8 billion at a donors conference this week to start rebuilding the country afte...
McClatchy | Jacqueline Charles | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- At an encampment on the outskirts of Haiti's capital, physicians from three international aid agencies provide identical serv...
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011
Middle school students across the country provide "hands-on" support for Haitian earthquake victims by assembling hundreds of health kits for an international aid organization.
Austin Business Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
The $50 million raised through a Haiti relief text-to-donate campaign represents a "tipping point" in future fundraising, according to a collaborative...
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011
Two of the most highly regarded health care nonprofits in Haiti are making an urgent plea for 120,000 lights to assist them in giving medical attention to those dispersed in the rural areas.
Posted 05.25.2011
Despite record donations in January, aid groups involved in the Haiti reconstruction effort are concerned that they will not meet the minimum financia...
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011
For over 20 years, CCH members have supported community development in Haiti. One of the ways they do this is by teaching organic gardening, reforestation, and animal husbandry.
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011
Elementary school children across the country are making health kits for Haiti with the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Communities everywhere are encouraged to join the effort.
Posted 05.25.2011
Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Pierre Garcon and New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma are both of Haitians, and despite facing off against e...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CINCINNATI — Consumer products maker Procter & Gamble Co. says its donations to Haitian earthquake relief have topped $2 million total in cash, ...
Scott Fifer | Posted 05.25.2011
After giving to Haiti in record amounts, it's feared that much of the U.S. population will soon face donor fatigue. One sector of the population, however, is still eager to help -- children.
Baltimore Sun | Scott Calvert | Posted 05.25.2011
Donations for Haiti have poured in to the American Red Cross of Central Maryland from a range of sources. Nothing, though, has stood out like the coin...
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011
Even before the earthquake, 85% of Haitians did not have electricity. Now the situation is even worse. For $10, you can empower a group of 10 people in Haiti for 10 years by providing a solar-powered light.
Posted 05.25.2011
The unusually high number of amputations following the earthquake in Haiti means that Haitian amputees will need long-term aid in order to walk and fu...
Posted 05.25.2011
According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, individuals have donated more than $470 million in the last two weeks to Haiti relief efforts, including t...
Posted 01.27.2012