| AT&T and
AT&T Foundation |
The AT&T Foundation is providing a $50,000
donation to Telecoms Sans Frontieres to support
their relief work on disasters in Haiti and
around the globe. In addition, AT&T wireless
customers can send $10 donations to the Red
Cross International Relief Fund by typing the
word "Haiti" and sending it to 90999 via text
message. [Read
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| Allegany
Franciscan Ministries |
Allegany Franciscan Ministries has approved a
$10,000 grant to Catholic Relief Services, Inc.
in Baltimore, MD, to address immediate recovery
and relief needs in Haiti and a $10,000 grant to
Global Health Ministry, Inc. in Newtown Square,
PA, for a GHM medical team and the rebuilding of
Hospital St. Francis de Sale in Port au Prince,
which has served the city's poor since 1881. |
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BankAtlantic |
BankAtlantic has joined with CBS 4's Neighbors 4
Neighbors to raise funds for the earthquake
victims in Haiti. All BankAtlantic branches will
serve as collection sites for those wishing to
donate to Neighbors 4 Neighbors' Haiti
earthquake relief fund. Neighbors 4 Neighbors is
collaborating with relief and recovery
organizations to facilitate donations of money
and resources in Haiti. [Read
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Bank of America Charitable Foundation |
Bank of America committed $1 million to aid
Haiti earthquake victims, which includes a
$500,000 grant to the American Red Cross for the
Haitian Relief and Development Fund. The
remaining $500,000 will be directed towards
long-term recovery efforts to restore basic
medical services and fund the rebuilding of
homes, schools and other structures critical to
the affected communities. In addition, Bank of
America will match associate pledges through the
bank's Matching Gifts program and will not limit
its overall relief donation. [Read
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is offering
$10 million in prizes to encourage companies to
offer cellphone-based financial services in
Haiti. USAID is adding another $5 million
to the project for help with technical
assistance. [Read
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Blue Cross
and Blue Shield of Florida
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida donated
$10,000 to the American Red Cross in Miami for
Haiti earthquake relief efforts. |
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Burger King & Have It Your Way Foundation |
The Have it Your Way Foundation, the charitable
arm of Burger King Corp., has donated $50,000 to
the American Red Cross for disaster relief
efforts in Haiti. In addition, the company
is collecting essential supplies from employees
and distributing them in coordination with the
University of Miami's medical teams. BKC
employees are also rallying to volunteer with
local community organizations and assist with
relief efforts. [Read
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Carnival Corporation |
Carnival Corporation and its affiliated
cruise brands are donating at least $5 million
toward relief efforts in Haiti. The $5
million donation includes a large corporate
contribution along with monies raised from a
variety of fundraising efforts coordinated by
Carnival Corporation cruise brands. [Read
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Dade Community Foundation |
The
Dade Community Foundation has established the
Dade Community Foundation Haiti Relief Fund and
a separate group has set up the LGBT Community
Response to the Crisis in Haiti Fund at the
foundation. The foundation is partnering with
Miami Dade County, the American Red Cross and
Catholic Charities to appeal for cash donations
to the Haiti earthquake relief effort. |
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Darden |
Darden donated $100,000 to the American Red
Cross for Haiti earthquake relief efforts. |
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Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation |
The Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation has
committed $50,000 to the American Red Cross of
Central Florida and Catholic Charities to help
offset their increased operating cost due to
the current crisis impacting the Haitian
community in Central Florida. |
| The Florida
Bar Foundation |
The Florida Bar Foundation awarded grants
totaling $297,000 to legal aid offices in
Florida that have seen an influx of Haitians
applying for Temporary Protected Status, which
the U.S. government extended to allow Haitians
already living in the United States to continue
to live and work in the country for 18 months
from January 2010. [Read
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| FPL Group
Foundation |
The FPL Group Foundation has donated $100,000 to
the American Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Relief
Fund. |
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Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice |
Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice
has created the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund to facilitate donations to help Haiti earthquake victims. Contributions to the fund will be quickly
directed to responsible and effective organizations that are providing urgently needed relief and recovery support in Haiti.
The foundation has directed the first two rounds
of donations made to the Fund to Venice-based
Agape Flights and the American National Red
Cross.
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Harris Corporation |
Harris Corporation announced plans to send up to
$1 million worth of communications equipment to
Haiti to help aid agencies coordinate the
earthquake recovery effort. Harris is also
matching employees' American Red Cross Haiti
fund donations up to $15,000. [Read
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Jessie Ball duPont Fund |
The Jessie Ball duPont Fund awarded $300,000 in
emergency relief funds to support aid to the
victims of the Haiti earthquake. This includes
$150,000 to the Archdiocese of Miami, which will
work through Catholic Charities and Catholic
Relief Services to provide food, temporary
shelter, medicine, water equipment and other
supplies to the people of Haiti; $50,000 to the
American Red Cross, through the America Red
Cross of the Delmarva Peninsula, to support its
relief efforts; and $100,000 to the University
of Miami to support a range of activities in
Haiti. The University's Miller School of
Medicine operates Project Medishare, which works
to achieve quality health care in Haiti and runs
a community health project in Haiti's Central
Plateau, as well as a family medicine training
program for Haitian physicians in the city of
Cap-Haitien. In addition, the University is
working through its Haitian Student Organization
and the Butler Center for Service and Leadership
to coordinate additional relief efforts. [Read
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JM Family Enterprises |
JM Family Enterprises and Southeast Toyota
Distributors LLC donated $100,000 to support the
American Red Cross effort in Haiti. [Read
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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation |
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
awarded a $200,000 grant to Internews, an
international media development group, to help
keep Haiti's radio stations broadcasting key
information to survivors. Internews will assess
the damage done to Haitian news organizations
and provide resources for them. [Read
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The Knight Foundation also
awarded $600,000 to five Miami-based nonprofit
groups to address both short- and long-term
challenges facing Haitians in South Florida due
to the earthquake in Haiti. [Read
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Lennar Corporation |
In a donation that will exceed $1 million, the
Lennar Corporation has pledged to match, dollar
for dollar, donations to the Athletes Relief
Fund for Haiti, which was created by Alonzo
Mourning to support medical needs in Haiti.
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Office Depot Foundation and Office Depot |
Office Depot Foundation has donated $10,000 to
Doctors Without Borders to provide medical
supplies to Haiti and $10,000 to Feed The
Children, which will provide 40,000 pounds of
rice to Haiti – enough for 160,000 individual
meals. Office Depot has also pledged to
give Feed The Children 2,500 backpacks to help
children in Haiti who have nowhere to keep their
possessions, is providing more than 20,000
square feet of store space in the Miami area to
the Save the Children organization for use as a
distribution warehouse, and through its stores
is offering free faxing to Haiti to assist with
recovery and rebuilding efforts. In addition, the
company announced that it
will support, for the fourth consecutive year,
the National Disaster Help Desk for Business,
which provides on-the-ground coordination of
information among businesses, local chambers of
commerce, nongovernmental and nonprofit
organizations, government responders and
disaster recovery specialists. [Read
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| Publix Super
Market Charities and Publix Super Markets Inc. |
Publix Super Markets Charities donated $100,000
to the American Red Cross for Haiti earthquake
relief efforts. In a separate donation, Publix
Super Markets Inc. established a program where
its customers can add any amount to their
grocery totals that will be donated to the
American Red Cross and designated specifically
for the Haiti Relief & Development Fund.
As of February 17, Publix customers and
associates have
contributed more than $4.4 million to the
Fund. [Read
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Quantum Foundation |
The Quantum Foundation approved emergency grants
of $10,000 each to two local Haitian
organizations, Hands Together of the Palm
Beaches and Intercultural Family Health
Education Center, for general operating support.
The dollars will be used to support local
efforts in the Palm Beach County Haitian
community and be directed towards the residents
who are most affected by the devastation. [Read
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Royal Caribbean Cruises |
Royal Caribbean Cruises plans to provide at
least $1 million in humanitarian relief to Haiti,
and will be
partnering with charitable organizations - such
as Food for the Poor, Pan American Development
Foundation, and the Solano Foundation, the
company's foundation in Haiti - to provide
additional assistance to the people of Haiti.
The company will also be delivering much-needed goods and supplies to Haiti via
its
cruise ships. [Read
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Southern Wine & Spirits of Florida |
Southern Wine & Spirits of Florida contributed
50 pallets of water for Spirit Airlines' relief
flight to Haiti. |
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Spirit Airlines |
Spirit Airlines pledged to provide up to $10
million to Yele Haiti for relief efforts in
Haiti. Spirit will give $75 to Yele for
every person who applies for and uses a Free
Spirit MasterCard by Jan. 25 and uses it once by
March 31. In addition, the airline has
completed its first
relief flights to Port-au-Prince, sending
20,000 pounds of water. [Read
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Walt Disney Company |
The Walt Disney Company contributed $100,000 to
the Red Cross International Fund to support
Haiti's relief efforts. [Read
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Winn-Dixie Foundation and Winn-Dixie Stores |
The Winn-Dixie Foundation has partnered with the
Western Union Foundation to donate $200,000 to
the American Red Cross International Response
Fund. In addition, Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. is
implementing its "Neighbors Helping Neighbors"
program in all of its stores to allow its
customers to donate to the Red Cross disaster
relief efforts in Haiti at the cash register.
[Read
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The American Red Cross
is pledging an initial $200,000 to assist communities
impacted by the earthquake, and is accepting donations
through its
International Response Fund. By texting
the word "Haiti" to 90999, Red Cross donors will be
giving $10 to relief efforts (the charge will appear on
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The Archdiocese of Miami is accepting financial
donations to assist with recovery efforts for the
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Catholic Relief Services
is the official international humanitarian agency of the
U.S. Catholic Church and has made an initial commitment
of $5 million for immediate use in the relief effort.
CRS is mobilizing food and gearing up its emergency
capacity, and deploying prepositioned emergency shelter
and hygiene kits in Haiti, as well as bringing in
supplies from the neighboring Dominican Republic. |
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CARE is deploying additional emergency team members
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Clinton Bush Haiti Fund was established by President
Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush to provide
immediate relief and long-term support to earthquake
survivors in Haiti. |
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Doctors Without Borders
is treating earthquake survivors on the ground in Haiti. |
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Greater Miami Jewish Federation
has established an emergency relief fund to provide
immediate humanitarian aid to earthquake victims and
their families. |
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Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice
has created the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund to
facilitate donations to help Haiti earthquake victims.
Contributions to the fund will be quickly directed to
responsible and effective organizations that are
providing urgently needed relief and recovery support in
Haiti. |
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Help Brings Hope for Haiti
in Tampa has a team of doctors and surgeons working
outside of Port au Prince and is sending food and
medicine through Cap Haitien and the Dominican Republic. |
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Hope for
Haiti in Naples is planning to send doctors, nurses,
medical supplies and equipment to the affected area and
needs support to pay for fuel. |
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The Lambi Fund of Haiti, which works to strengthen
civil society in Haiti, says it is a "second responder"
that will be in Haiti to help rebuild the country after
the relief service providers have left. |
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MercyCorps
has deployed an experienced emergency team to rush
critical supplies and other urgent assistance to
survivors. |
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Missionary Flights International, based in
Ft. Pierce, flies mail and supplies to more than 600
missionary workers in Haiti. It is planning flights to
send relief supplies to Haiti. |
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Operation Helping
Hands, a joint community project of The Miami Herald
and United Way-Miami, will be collecting donations to
support the relief effort in Haiti. |
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Oxfam
is dispatching emergency teams to the most devastated
areas in Haiti. |
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The Pan
American Development Foundation, the natural
disaster relief arm of the Organization of American
States, is accepting donations at its special relief
website
www.PanAmericanRelief.org. The organization has more
than 150 people working in Haiti on economic
development, disaster mitigation and protecting human
rights. |
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Partners In Health is providing medical
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Project K.I.D.
(Kids in Disaster) is providing child friendly spaces
and psychosocial support through its "Play Care" model
for children affected by disaster and will be setting up
several Play Care sites throughout affected areas in
Haiti. The Children's Forum in Tallahassee, FL is
coordinating the work for Project K.I.D. |
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UNICEF
is seeking donations for the ongoing emergency relief
efforts in Haiti and the Caribbean region through
www.unicefusa.org/haitiquake or by calling
1-800-4UNICEF. |
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United Way Worldwide
is seeking donations for help Haiti earthquake victims through the United Way Worldwide Disaster Fund. Donations will be used to provide immediate
disaster relief items such as food, shelter, supplies
and clothing. United Way Worldwide is working in
collaboration with the Caribbean Council to ensure that
donations are invested in the most effective nonprofit
agencies providing services in Haiti. Make a donation online
here or
contact your local United Way to inquire about sending a
donation via check. |
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Volunteer Florida
provides regular updates on the situation in Haiti and a
list of organizations providing relief to Haiti. |
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