Haiti Earthquake. January 2010. Aid, Relief, Recovery.

The Haiti Earthquake of 2010

From the IME Center for Cares, Concerns, Causes, and Interests

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The Haiti Earthquake of 2010
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"How can I help?"

The aid agencies and organizations on this page are reputable and effective. Visit them for advice. They'll give you general guidelines and/or specific instructions on how you can still help the victims of this catastrophe. Currently and generally, the best way to help is to donate money.
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Convenient, Affordable, Mobile Aid

Send a $10 donation to the American Red Cross for aid to Haitians by texting "Haiti" (excluding quotation marks) to 90999. The $10 will be added to your cell phone bill.

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Watchdog Websites:
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Charity Navigator | CharityWatch.org | Give.org
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Learn about Efficiency Ratings vs. Effectiveness
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UK = United Kingdom
UN = United Nations
US = United States

... Action Against Hunger
... Agape Flights
... ActionAid International
... Adventist Development & Relief Agency International
... American Friends Service Committee
... American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
... American Jewish World Service
... American Red Cross
... American Refugee Committee International
... AmeriCares
... Architecture for Humanity
... AusAID
... Baptist World Aid
... Beyond Borders
... B'nai B'rith International
... Canadian International Development Agency
... CARE
... CarmaFoundation
... Catholic Relief Services
... Childcare Worldwide
... Child Fund International
... Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
... Church World Service
... Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
... Clinton Foundation
... Concern Worldwide
... Convoy of Hope
... Christian Reformed Church
... Cross International
... CRUDEM
... Direct Relief International
... Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres
... Episcopal Relief & Development
... Feed My Starving Children
... Food for Life Global
... Food for the Poor
... Friends of the Orphans
... Friends of WFP
... GOAL
... Habitat for Humanity International
... Haiti Children
... Haiti Foundation Against Poverty
... Haiti Marycare
... Haitian Health Foundation
... Healing Haiti | buya.org
... Healing Hands for Haiti
... Hope for Haiti
... Hope for Haiti Now
... Human Relief Fund
... International Child Care
... International Medical Corps
... International Orthodox Christian Charities
... International Red Cross and Red Crescent
... International Relief Teams
... International Rescue Committee
... Islamic Relief

... Lions Clubs International
... Lutheran World Relief
... Medical Assistance Programs (MAP) International
... Medical Benevolence Foundation
... Medical Teams International
... Meds and Food for Kids
... Mennonite Central Committee
... Mercy Corps
... Muslim Hands
... Nazarene Compassionate Ministries
... Network for Good
... New Life for Haiti
... Operation Blessing
... Operation USA
... Oxfam International
... Partners in Health
... Presbyterian Church (USA)
... Project Concern International
... Project Hope
... Relief International
... ReliefWeb
... RescueCorps
... Rhema International
... Rural Haiti Project
... Salvation Army
... Samaritan's Purse
... Save the Children
... ShelterBox
... UK Department for International Development
... UN Central Emergency Response Fund
... UNICEF (UN International Children's Emergency Fund)
... United Methodist Committee on Relief
... United Way
... USA Freedom Corps
... USAID (US Agency for International Development)
... WFP (World Food Programme, United Nations)
... White House, The (U.S. Presidency)
... World Concern
... World Hope International
... World Relief
... World Vision
... Yele Haiti

Earthquake News: .

       ... CNN
       ... Google
       ... Time
       ... Yahoo!
       ... Other news sources

Directory Quicklists to the Earthquake:

... Yahoo!

About Haiti:

... Start at Wikipedia
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For the help you've already provided, thank you.

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Efficiency Ratings vs. Effectiveness

On the whole, ratings are a good thing. But when choosing charities to which you're going to donate money, be aware that the efficiency ratings assigned to charities by watchdog groups can be misleading. More important is a charity's effectiveness in getting aid to victims.

For example, Charity A may dedicate 95% of received donations to direct material aid and only 5% to administration and fundraising, which is supposedly a good efficiency rating. But a good efficiency rating means nothing if 5% isn't enough money to get the other 95% to victims where and when they need it. The 95% has to be not only raised to begin with, but properly administered, properly managed. Otherwise it simply sits in Charity A's bank account, perhaps collecting interest, but definitely not providing water, food, medicine, clothing, shelter, counselling, and other aid to the victims, immediately and directly.

Charity B, on the other hand, may dedicate 20% of your donation to administration and fundraising, but that 20% may very well be competently, efficiently providing the other 80% of your donation to victims within a day after you've given it, or even within hours, in the form of water, food, medicine, clothing, shelter, counselling, and other aid. Charity B's so-called efficiency rating by a watchdog group may not be as good as Charity A's, but Charity B is a much more effective provider of aid. And, arguably, the more effective an aid group is, the more efficient it actually is, too, watchdog ratings and their definitions notwithstanding.

Take Oxfam, for example (with which we have no affiliation, by the way). You may look at efficiency ratings for Oxfam and scratch your head skeptically. Yet Oxfam is clearly and provably among the best relief-and-recovery aid organizations in the world, and it has been for decades.

Therefore, don't automatically dismiss charities because their so-called efficiency ratings don't appear as good as others'. Judge them also by their histories, reputations, and overall effectiveness. Finding out what's an effective, reputable charity is homework quickly and easily done. There are an awful lot of terrific aid organizations doing wonderful and effective work even though they don't meet the standards of what Watchdog Agency X or Watchdog Organization Y considers efficient.
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