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U.S. companies step up on Haitian relief efforts - Jan. 15, 2010 - 0 views

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  • Corporate America has already pledged more than $40 million in donations to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.
  • U.S. companies had already pledged $1 million or more apiece to international relief organizations working in Haiti.
  • They include Amgen (AMGN, Fortune 500), Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500), and Coca-Cola (KO, Fortune 500). Time Warner (TWX, Fortune 500), the parent company of Fortune and CNNMoney, is also raising funds for the relief effort.
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  • Wal-mart (WMT, Fortune 500), the world's largest retailer, has pledged $600,000 to support Red Cross emergency relief efforts in Haiti. The company also announced that it is sending $100,000 in pre-packaged food kits to Haiti at the request of the Red Cross.
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Haiti relief: Finding the best ways to help - 0 views

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shared by CORINNA wcta on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • An easy way to help is to make a quick donation using your cell phone. You can also donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti by texting "Haiti" to 90999. More than $3 million has been donated so far. The donation itself is added to your next phone bill. Similarly, you can donate $5 with your phone by texting "YELE" to 501501. Money goes to Yele Haiti, a charity founded in 2005 by recording artist Wyclef Jean, Goodwill Ambassador to Haiti .
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Haiti Earthquake Relief - 0 views

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shared by CORINNA wcta on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • How FPN members and other Florida foundations, corporate givers and other grantmakers are responding to the Haiti earthquake disaster.
  • any Florida corporations have established new programs to help their customers donate to Haiti earthquake relief and recovery efforts, provided in-kind donations and engaged in other efforts, raising more than $4.4 million in additional contributions.
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Food Aid Hurts Haiti's Farmers | Americas | English - 0 views

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shared by DANNICA wcta on 01 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • This season, farmer Charles Surfoad is storing his rice rather than selling it.
  • He says food aid from the earthquake relief effort produced a glut that pushed down prices.
  • If he sells now, he says he'll lose money.
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  • Food aid is never good for us," he says. "As a farmer, I'm one of the first affected. You can't send that to a country where that's what they grow."
  • if he can't sell his rice, he won't have money to buy seeds for next season.
  • And because he supplies about 50 neighbors with seeds, their next season will be affected, too.
  • The entire supply chain can be affected,
  • But, these cases illustrate that when donors bring in food, those who make a living growing and selling food can suffer.
  • here is a risk, definitely. And we are very aware of that," says Brooke Isham, director of the Food for Peace program at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
  • But the United States, which is the largest provider, "is lagging a little bit behind the curve of good practice in food aid," says Marc Cohen with the advocacy group Oxfam.
  • U.S. food aid consists almost entirely of American grain.
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