The wife isn’t much of a Red Cross fan, we went with AmeriCares. They seem like a solid organization.
I couldn’t decide between the Red Cross and MSF, so I’ve given $25 to each.
I suspect that a lot of this duplicates fessie’s list, but a friend forwarded a list of aid agencies in the US and Canada that are accepting donations.
USA
AmeriCares
Action Against Hunger
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/
ADRA International
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.
Association for India’s Development
Catholic Relief Services
Christian Children’s Fund
Church World Service
Direct Relief International
Doctors Without Borders
Food for the Hungry, Inc.
International Aid
http://www.gospelcom.net/ia/
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
http://www.ifrc.org/index.asp
International Medical Corps
http://www.imcworldwide.org/index.shtml
International Rescue Committee
Lutheran World Relief
MAP International
http://www.map.org/
Mercy Corps
Network for Good
Operation USA
http://www.opusa.org/
Oxfam America
Plan USA
Project Concern International
http://www.projectconcern.org/
Save the Children USA
UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/index.html
U.N. World Food Programme
http://www.wfp.org/
World Concern
CANADA
The following non-profit organizations are among those collecting
donations to help survivors of the Dec. 26 tsunami:
Canadian Red Cross
https://secure.csfm.com/redcross/
1-800-418-1111
(or donate through your local Red Cross office)
UNICEF Canada
https://secure.unicef.ca/forms/emergency_page.html
1-800-567-4483
UNICEF Canada
2200 Yonge St., Suite 1100
Toronto, Ont.
M4S 2C6
Oxfam Canada
https://www.strategicprofitsinc.com/hosted/Oxfam
1-800-466-9326
Asian Earthquake/Floods Relief, Oxfam Canada
200-215 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
M5T 2C7
World Vision Canada
1-800-268-5528
SALVATION ARMY
www.salvationarmy.ca or 1-800-SAL-ARMY
CARE CANADA
www.care.ca or 1-800-267-5232
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
www.msf.ca or 1-800-982-7903
Tamil Rehabilitation Organization
http://www.troonline.org/
416-751-8777
Make donations for the Sri Lankan relief effort at any TD Canada Trust
branch, through account 500-1027, transit number 540.
Canadian Tamil Congress
416-751-8777
Canadian Relief Organization for Peace in Sri Lanka
416-429-2822
I have a lot of fond memories fror that place. It was essentially the place where I met my wife, and fell in love. The wife is looking for some Thai charities, we want to get specific with our first donation, we want to help Thai. If you want a general fund to donate to I highly suggest the salvation army. I’ll post links to the Thai charity we donate to.HERE is a pic of a place that doesn’t exist anymore…its under water. Taken 4 years ago. What bothers me is that I guarantee that some of the people I met there that treated us so great are now dead, and the places I remember going are either completely gone or at least severely damaged. There was lady that rented scooters on the beach, she lived across the street. I wanted a scooter, but I didn’t want to give her my passport as deposit (which was evidently standard), but she rented it to me anyway, because I had an “honest face”…lol yeah right. It was the extra $10 bucks I offered that did it. I wonder if she made it. Just thought I would share this and encurage you to donate to help out if you could. All my in laws are fine, they all live in central/Bangkok. But they certainly felt the earthquake.
Look at post 6 in this thread from yesterday. It has ratings of various charities from two different sources.
I’m about to donate to Lutheran World Relief, which looks like it’s extremely efficient.
GT
I couldn’t get the DWB link to work last night, so I wound up giving $75 to Mercy Corps.
I’m waiting until after New Year’s, but there’s a good reason for that. My company will match dollar for dollar on contributions to any 501©(3) organization, up to a maximum of $2500 (IIRC) per employee until the designated pool of money is exhausted. Unfortunately, the 2004 pool of money has been exhausted, but we get a new pool of money on 1/1/05. As 1/1/05 falls on a Saturday, I will wait Monday to make my donation. Then my $200 will become $400 instantly.
That gives me the next few days to decide which orgainzation(s) should receive my donation.
Donated $500 today via the Amazon link from Google.
Wish I could give more, but cash is tight for me this month. = (
Gave to UNICEF and the Red Cross’ International Disaster Relief Fund, via their websites. That was when the scale of the tragedy of the scale seemed “smaller;” the death toll has doubled since then.
Something substantial to the International Red Cross in the UK. Will be hopefully be joining a reconstruction team in Thailand in a few months’ time.
I was trying to figure out how to budget in some money to give to a relief agency, until I found out this morning that my boss has decided to donate $5,000 on behalf of our business. We’re a really small office, 4 people plus him, and I was sort of shocked. I’m new here, and this definately reinforces my already good opinion of the place.
- Rebekkah
I just got an email from the company president (I work for a gigantic megacorporation) saying that they will match any donations to the Red Cross. I’ve been feeling pretty guilty about my tiny donation, but this makes me feel better. As soon as I get home, where I have my donation receipt, my company will turn my little $50 into $100. I have to take advantage of this and donate some more.
In fact, on a scale of one to ten, how unethical of it of me would it be to offer to take PayPal donations? I’d in turn donate the money and my company would match it. It’s not like they can’t afford it. Hm.
I donated $20 through Amazon. It isn’t much, but I’m a lowly college student. After I buy textbooks for the spring semester I might give more if I have money left.
The Apple home page, which is usually an ad for the iPod, now contains links to various aid organizations. I followed one to give $100 to UNICEF.
Kangaroo_in_Black and I just donated today.
Kyla, while I’m sure your heart is in the right place, I suspect this is a bad idea. I know it feels like the company can afford it, and they likely can, but if they found out you could be fired. I’m not a lawyer or a professional anything right now, but this is my gut reaction. If you really feel like you need to do this, why not do it within a circle of real life friends?
No, you’re right, it’s a bad idea. :: sigh ::
I donated $10 to the Red Cross. Wish I had enough money to feel like I made a difference, but I couldn’t just do nothing.
I donated through Amazon.com. I wish I could donate more (hopefully later) but at least it was something. I did quite a bit of donating earlier this month so I’m kind of tapped out . . .
I love refreshing the Amazon.com page and seeing how much the total has increased. A few days it was 3 million. Now it’s 9 million, heading towards 10 million. Really wonderful.
I was impressed with Direct Relief International’s efficiency (99.1%) and medical bang for the buck(34:1), so I donated $1K there. When I go to church Sunday, I have a feeling that I will talk myself into matching that through Catholic Relief Services or Christian Foundation for the Children/Aging for long-term rebuilding efforts, then I will reassess on a monthly basis and donate accordingly.
Whoa, donating thru Amazon was so easy! I was already signed in so it really took just one click. Brilliant. Yesterday I started to donate to the ARC via Yahoo, but got bogged down on their info page and had to leave.
Major thanks for the info, Bosda.