A Long Recovery For Haiti

Update 5:  And the other donor has sent me her confirmation email too.  I'm not going to post it because once I blur out the personal details, it looks exactly the same as mine.  
Update 4:  Made my matching donation!





Update 3:  Thank you to all 32 donors who participated!  Will update with the final wrapup in a couple days.


Update 2:  There seems to be a trend of anonymous donors now.  It's totally fine to donate anonymously, but if you do, could you give some kind of nickname or hometown just so it's more personalized?  Thanks!


Update: An additional donor has also agreed to match donations, so now, for every donor, $20 will be donated to the American Red Cross, up to a limit of $1000.  Because of this new development, we are extending it one more day, to the end of Friday night. Thanks to all who have participated already. 

Recovery efforts are underway for the Haiti earthquake, but they still have a long way to go.  Please consider making a donation to relief efforts.  To try to jump start things, we're going to try a fundraiser of sorts on the blog.



Here's how it will work.
1.  Please make a donation to Haiti relief efforts.  You can donate to the American Red Cross by texting "HAITI" to 90999 (A $10 donation will be taken off your phone bill).  Or, make a donation via their web page* or another charity of choice. 
2.  Leave a comment in this post noting that you made a donation.  My husband and I will donate $10 to the American Red Cross for every donation listed in the comment section between now and the end of Thursday, up to a limit of $500 dollars.  

We're just going to go by the honor system here.  Please do consider making a donation.  Thank you!


*I've heard that with text donations, the money doesn't get there for 90 days, so a web page donation is better, but if you're short on time, a text donation is better than nothing!  Also, if you choose to make a web page donation, I recommend specifying the International Relief Fund rather than earmarking the funds for Haiti specifically, so that it gives the Red Cross some freedom to be flexible as circumstances dictate.
Posted by on 1/18/2010 10:27:00 PM
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32 comments:

  1. This is incredible Livia. How generous! Just donated again after reading this.
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  2. Wonderful initiative, so great of you to do this. Just put in a web donation. Thanks Livia!
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  3. Thank you so much for your generosity! I donated by cell phone, as I am short on cash right now.
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  4. You don't have to match this but FYI I donated $25 through amazon.com and I think my wife did the text thing the other day.

    Those people in Haiti are in an impossible situation. At least with NOLA the survivors went to Houston etc but these people have nowhere to go.
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  5. I've donated through the Canadian Red Cross. You've made a very generous offer here!
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  6. I've donated to the Red Cross. Thanks for helping out this way. You only have to match $10...
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  7. I donated! Thanks for doing this!
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  8. How generous of you! I made my donation.
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  9. Just made a donation on the website.
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  10. Good idea - I donated by text.
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  11. I donated to World Vision this morning!
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  12. Donated $50 via the Red Cross Webpage
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  13. I just donated to the Red Cross via TXT
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  14. We just donated to the Red Cross on RedCross.com. This is really nice of you to do!
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  16. Hey Livia,
    harold told me about this, I've been helping to run a fundraising drive for haiti & doctors w/o borders at school (in addition to donating myself) :-) ...this is awesome!
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  17. For the Halo/Bungie fans that may see this. I made a donation through Bungie.net who was selling "Be a Hero" T-shirts with 100% of their profits to the Red Cross. http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BeAHero
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  19. Hi5 Livia for getting this organized! I donated to Red Cross through Whole Foods in Abq. Keep it up and let us know of additional matching for more donations. Thanks!
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  20. I donated to Red Cross and Compassion International. Thanks for doing this!
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  21. UNICEF and Partners in Health. Thanks for matching donations - that's awesome!
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  22. I donated last week to Yele Haiti, but your post inspired me to donate again, this time to Red Cross. Thank you for doing this!
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  23. Donated through the Red Cross. Thanks for the motivation
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  24. I donated! Good job Livia
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  25. Hi Livia, Harold pointed me to your blog. I donated, great work!
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  26. Hi Livia! This is so great of you to do this. I've just donated for the second time; they're also selling this great shirt on Threadless and sending all of the profits to Haiti, so that might be a good thing to promote as well: http://www.threadless.com/product/2191/Many_Hands_Make_the_Load_Lighter?utm_medium=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=January-21-2010_012110+Thursday&utm_source=012110+Thursday

    Hope you and your new husband are doing well!
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  27. thx for doing this, my husband & i donated to Doctors Without Borders and Partners in Health.
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  28. I donated yesterday. Thanks for doing this.
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  29. donated today. great idea.
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  30. I donated to the Clinton Bush Haiti Relief fund. Your generosity is beautiful.
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  31. Harold told me about your blog... great idea! I donated through World Vision a few days back.
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  32. Hi, Livia! It's been a while - hope all is well with you! This is so generous of you! I'm making a donation to WorldVision. :)
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