Haiti Relief

Text Donations Facilitate Impulse Giving But Not Long-Term Donations, Study Says

Posted 01.27.2012 | Impact

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The best way to reach busy, distracted donors? Make it easy. The ability to send small donations using mobile phones facilitates “impulse giving...

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Finally, a Spectacular Example of Progress In Haiti

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 01.26.2012 | World

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A stunning, modern teaching hospital with oxygen outlets in the walls is about to open in the town of Mirebalais, Haiti.

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Kim Kardashian Donates HUGE Sum To LGBT Charity

Posted 01.26.2012 | Impact

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Kim Kardashian strutted her charitable side when she gave a generous $50,000 to an LGBT suicide prevention program, US Weekly Magazine reports. Th...

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Reflections on Haiti -- Two Years Out

Mildred M.G. Olivier, MD | Posted 01.17.2012 | Impact

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Shortly after the Haitian earthquake struck on January 12, 2010, my phone rang. I left the cold of Chicago seven days later. As an ophthalmologist, a medical doctor who specializes in eye care, I worked to provide immediate treatment for those injured.

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Haitian Woman In NY Starts Nonprofit For Disaster Relief

Bed-Stuy Patch | Posted 01.13.2012 | Impact

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It’s been more than 35 years since Marie-Yolaine Eusebe and her family emigrated from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to the United States. ...

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Nonprofit Makes Progress Fighting Sexual Violence In Haiti 2 Years Later

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Prois | Posted 01.12.2012 | Impact

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Heavy raindrops pelted Sherlie Christophe's tent one night in a Port-au-Prince, Haiti displacement camp two months after a 7.0 earthquake rocked the i...

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Haiti: The Good News

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 01.12.2012 | Good News

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Expectations regarding reconstruction often disregard the normal pattern of rebuilding after disaster and basic construction timelines. So here it is, ten reasons why we should double down and renew our commitment to Haiti in 2012.

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Remembering Is Important: The Second Anniversary Of The Earthquake In Haiti

Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr. | Posted 01.12.2012 | Religion

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More than simply recalling the day, it is important that we quite literally re-member -- that we reconnect and attach ourselves again to that part of the body of humanity that was severed.

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PHOTOS: Two Years Since Haiti Earthquake, A Cathedral Rebuilds

Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori | Posted 01.12.2012 | Religion

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We are all diminished by the reality of the situation in Haiti. Reconstruction has been painfully slow, funds promised by other nations have not yet been paid or paid in full, and many, many people still live in tents.

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Forget God. How Are We Helping Haiti?

Rev. Susan Baller-Shepard | Posted 01.12.2012 | Religion

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This notion that God caused this earthquake as a good thing for the people of Haiti is troubling theology. Where is that "good thing" in the midst of the suffering?

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When Fashion Meets Art, It Is A Beautiful Thing

Myrdith Leon Mccormack | Posted 12.27.2011 | Black Voices

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My life is so surreal. As I write this week's record of events, I realize it started way before this weekend at Art Basel. I just took a day trip to p...

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International Community Gathers for "Uni Haiti" at Upper East Gala

Jim Luce | Posted 01.14.2012 | Impact

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Although 200 guests were expected, 250 arrived to the United Nations's social club Aux Antilles's 21st annual dinner, this year to benefit the Interna...

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Wings Over Haiti Takes Flight

Lee Schneider | Posted 01.11.2012 | Impact

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Wings Over Haiti is raising $70,000 to build a new self-sustaining solar-powered school that will be larger, with room to store books, supplies, medicine, and room for a garden.

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Why I Remain Hopeful

Lee Bycel | Posted 12.26.2011 | Impact

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In addition to being most strategic in their work one can feel a core ethic of JP/HRO -- respect for the Haitian people. That sense of humaneness permeates the camp. What also stands out is their integrated approach.

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WATCH: Rainn Wilson Of 'The Office' On Why He Gives Back

Posted 12.18.2011 | Impact

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"The Office" star Rainn Wilson is known for his antics as Dwight on Thursday nights, but offscreen his ambitions reach far beyond becoming regional ma...

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Haiti's Capital Sees Threefold Jump In Cholera

AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 12.10.2011 | World

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The number of cholera cases seen in the Haitian capital has jumped about threefold in recent weeks, an official with a foreig...

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Constructing a Safer Haiti

Stacey McMahan | Posted 10.15.2011 | Impact

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Recovery in Haiti will continue for decades, properly implementing education on safe structures are just the first steps down the long path.

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Haiti's Leaders Might Extend Controversial Recovery Panel's Mandate

AP | td/kfk | Posted 09.19.2011 | Impact

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Michel Martelly will ask a reconstruction commission to extend its mandate a year. A government offic...

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Helping Haitian Orphans Through Sports and Community Building

Dr. Jane Aronson | Posted 09.12.2011 | Impact

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What do kids do all day in a "tent camp"? Well, when school is out, since there is no camp or summer program in the community, they do a lot of nothing.

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A Revolution Out Of Garbage In Haiti

Uma Viswanathan | Posted 07.22.2011 | Impact

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The unique cornerstone of Nouvelle Vie Haiti is to shift the mindset of an entire generation. Wilner and the rest of his team are doing just that.

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Petra Nemcova Helps Haiti Invest In Next Generation

Posted 07.18.2011 | Impact

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In 2004, Petra Nemcova fell victim to the devastating tsunami disaster in Thailand. Severely injured and separated from her fiance, she held on to a t...

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Notes on Haiti

Kieran Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

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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.

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Linkin Park Goes To The UN: A Conversation With Mike Shinoda

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

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Mike Shinoda of Lincoln Park agrees with the assessment that his band is a band in which everyone is always experimenting with new things.

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5 Celebs Who Took Gaddafi's Money (And What They're Doing With It Now)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

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Gaddafi may not be winning points with philanthropists around the world, but his money could do some major good. In February, cables released by th...

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Charlie Sheen Going To Haiti

Posted 05.26.2011 | Entertainment

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Whether they need it or not, tragically struggling Haiti is receiving a transfusion of Tiger Blood. Sean Penn, who has tirelessly worked to bring a...

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