The SheBlogs community has an amazing power. Over the last 7 months, we have grown to a membership of nearly 1700 female bloggers, who collectively reach more than 19.5 million monthly unique readers, or roughly one in five US Web browsers.
In times of triumph, we are able to offer amazing contest opportunities, giveaways, news announcements and previews. In times of tragedy, however, we have an opportunity to give something back – and the collective reach to make an impact.
With our reach – if each one of our readers were to donate $1 to a cause, the SheBlogs community would be able to raise $19.5 million. If each reader donated $10, that figure would be nearly $200 million.
On Tuesday, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands, leaving thousands more missing, and leaving the country’s population in desperate need of food, shelter, clothing and other necessities.
More than 2.5 million people were exposed to the most violent shaking and damage, but a total of 9.7 million are left with massive infrastructure damage, including collapsed schools, destroyed homes and overwhelmed hospitals.
In this time of need – called by Fmr. President Bill Clinton “One of the Great Humanitarian Emergencies in the History of the Americas,” let us all come together as a community, and help spread the word about the importance of donating to the causes that are helping with aid to Haiti. We encourage you to share these figures with your readers, and ask then to donate even one dollar.
Below is a list of organizations accepting donations to help survivors of the Haitian earthquake. Please, share one or all of them with your readers. If we have missed an organization, please comment below, and please leave a link to your post in the comments below:
Airline Ambassadors
http://www.airlineamb.org/
Americares
http://www.americares.org/
CARE
https://my.care.org/site/Donation2?5000.donation=form1&df_id=5000
Causeworld by Citi and Kraft Foods
This is mobile application and is available for both the iPhone and Droid.
iTunes link – http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=343905383&mt=8
Droid link – http://www.android.com/market
DirectRelief International
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=137039094&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
Doctors without borders
https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197&hbc=1&source=ADR1001E1D01
Friends of the World Food Program
http://www.friendsofwfp.org/site/c.hrKJIXPFIqE/b.5018821/k.BD50/Home.htm
Help children affected by the earthquake in Haiti via UNICEF USA
https://secure.unicefusa.org/site/Donation2?df_id=6680&6680.donation=form1
International Rescue Committee
https://www.theirc.org/donate/donate-now-haiti
The Lambi Fund of Haiti
https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/LambiFundofHaiti_1/OnlineGiving.html
Yele Haiti
http://www.yele.org/
World Food Program
https://www.wfp.org/donate/haiti
GiveOnTheGo.com
Harnessing the enormous potential of the U.S. mobile network (280 million subscribers and steadily climbing) into a system that can effectively serve your nonprofit organization is GoGo’s primary mission. The GoGo process achieves this by utilizing cutting-edge mobile technology to create a simple, user-friendly, customizable messaging and donation platform. You don’t have to know a short code from a short cut; GoGo’s experts handle all the technical details. All you need to do is choose a keyword (i.e. DONATE) or keywords and watch your mobile messaging donation campaigns go and grow!
http://www.mercycorps.org/
Partners in Health
https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake?source=earthquake&subsource=homepage
Nonprofit Donor Management Solutions eTapestry
http://etapestry.com/
Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=a8712721ea326210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD
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