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Roundtable article from Little House: Mary Ann's Garden
A little tongue-in-cheek to the editor of the Roundtable. Enjoy!
I once again have the pleasure of writing "from Little House" article. In the past, I have been told my posts need to be edited due to length. This time, I thought I would use few words and add pictures. Since every picture is worth a thousand words.
To see the "reclaimed" Little House Garden and orchard in full, living, color, please attend our Garden Party on July 10, or stop by and stroll through any time at your leisure. We will be honoring Mary Ann McGivern, who started gardening this spot around thirty years ago. We will be raising funds for Little House and for the Downtown Teens. Send an email to mbroute66@charter.net or tekachildress@gmail.com for more information.
Peace,
Thursday, May 20, 2010
To Copyright or Trademark?
That is the question. I have filed an “intent to use” the Term: Justie to describe those who identify as being social justice oriented people. My applications are pending with the Trademark and Copyright offices.
I give credit for the idea to Megan Heeney, who mis-typed the title of a Facebook Event for Justice and Peace Shares. When I read the word Justie, I thought, that makes being social justice conscious person—a trend. In similar manner, one who enjoys good food might be called a Foodie.
We’ll see if the term catches on. What do you think?
Peace,
Justie, Mike Baldwin
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The Downtown Teens need summer projects. Here's how you can help: (RT)
Hi friends of the Downtown Teens,
Thanks to your generosity from my last email, we were able to keep the Teens working through the end of this month with subsidies from several of you. Now I am looking for home improvement projects for the DownTown Teens for the Summer.
During the Spring we worked on the orchard next door, weeding, moving rocks and removing stumps and volunteer honeysuckle, etc. We also did a little painting and built a compost station and miscellaneous other small projects. Our big season is coming up. Once school is out, we make the program available three days a week. With a crew of 5 plus one or two adults, we can tackle a variety of projects or we can lend a helping hand to work with you on your project.
Please consider hiring the Teens for your next project. In the past, we have built fences, done landscaping and gardening, built decks, painted indoors and out, hung drywall, “gut” demolitions (and more refined disassembly), small repairs and rough carpentry. Now would be a good time for us to weatherproof your fence or deck. It is recommended after the one year, that pressure treated lumber be treated with a wood preservative and stain to extend its life. Ideally, we are looking for projects that can be completed in 1-3 days.
If a neighbor or friend mentions a project, mention the Teens. If you want to help out on some of our projects, let me know. As in the past, we will no doubt perform maintenance and improvement for people of limited income, so if you can send us a financial boost at this time, it will be gratefully acknowledged and carefully used to subsidize those projects.
We are still pursuing the nonprofit, 501(c)3 status, but for now, checks can be sent Mike Baldwin or Teka Childress at the address below. Or you can use PayPal to mbroute66@charter.net. To discuss or schedule a project, please give either of us a call. Thanks.
Peace,
Mike Baldwin & Teka Childress
314-974-7432, 314-974-2552
1538-A N. 17th Street
Saint Louis, MO 63106
Friday, February 26, 2010
From CNN U.S. Intriguing people for February 26, 2010
Michael Denson: "Walking the last mile with death row inmates, Michael Denson lives in a state where 87 percent of the residents support the death penalty." So begins Michelle Bearden's remarkable portrait of Denson at the uscatholic.org Web site. The Frisco, Texas, rancher founded the Catholic Death Row Ministry two decades ago, and today he finds himself spending less time with his cattle and more hours with inmates at maximum-security prisons. He told Bearden, "The general attitude is 'Let's kill them, and let's kill them as quick as we can.' I don't judge others for holding that opinion, but it doesn't work for me." Bearden reports that Denson's mother frequently wrote letters to inmates who needed pen pals. When he was 8, he asked his mother to write a letter -- on his behalf -- to convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who killed two men in Utah and who was later executed. "Then the FBI called my mom and told her that her young son wrote this letter to Gilmore, saying he wanted the inmate to meet his dad when he went to heaven," Denson said. "My dad died when I was 5, and since it seemed certain that this man was going to die, too, I was hoping he'd look for my dad." In addition to the visits, Denson writes his own letters to prisoners and has witnessed four executions at the request of inmates or family members, according to Bearden. He is often asked how he would feel if someone murdered his child. "I would pray that God would give me the grace to forgive," Denson told Bearden. "No matter what, I still believe that only he has the right to take a life." U.S. Catholic: Walking the last mile with death row inmates
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
20+-mind-blowing-social-media-statistics-revisitedhttp: //econsultancy.com/blog
Posted 29 January 2010 10:07am by Jake Hird with 15 comments
It’s around six months since I last threw out some truly mindboggling pieces of data surrounding social media. So, what’s happened between then and now?
I try to put as much information as I can into Econsultancy’s Social Media Statistics, which is part of our Stats Compendium (a truly awesome resource) but I find it’s always interesting to go back and review the old against the new.
So, I’ve collected as much as I can from my previous insane snippets of data and benchmarked it against the here and now, alongside rooting out some new stuff for you to mull over.
If six months ago, it wasn’t a compelling case to consider social media in the marketing mix, then this hopefully might change your mind...
- Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours… A considerable increase from the previous 120m.
- Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis. It’s still a fair increase from the estimated 6-10m global users from a few months ago.
- LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide. This means an increase of around 1m members month-on-month since July/August last year.
- Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis. Six months ago, this was 250m… meaning around a 40% increase of users in less than half a year.
- Flickr now hosts more than 4bn images. A massive jump from the previous 3.6bn I wrote about.
- More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day. This is 5m more than towards the end of July, 2009.
- Wikipedia currently has in excess of 14m articles, meaning that it’s 85,000 contributors have written nearly a million new posts in six months.
- Photo uploads to Facebook have increased by more than 100%. Currently, there are around 2.5bn uploads to the site each month – this was around a billion last time I covered this.
- There are more than 70 translations available on Facebook. Last time around, this was only 50.
- Back in 2009, the average user had 120 friends within Facebook. This is now around 130.
- Mobile is even bigger than before for Facebook, with more than 65m users accessing the site through mobile-based devices. In six months, this is over 100% increase. (Previously 30m). As before, it’s no secret that users who access Facebook through mobile devices are almost 50% more active than those who don’t.
Okay, so now some new stuff that’s worth considering when looking at social media marketing that I’ve not included in previous posts:
- There are more than 3.5bn pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each week on Facebook.
- There are now 11m LinkedIn users across Europe.
- Towards the end of last year, the average number of tweets per day was over 27.3 million.
- The average number of tweets per hour was around 1.3m.
- More than 700,000 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook.
- Purpose-built Facebook pages have created more than 5.3bn fans.
- 15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging, according to Technorati's new State of the Blogosphere.
- At the current rate, Twitter will process almost 10bn tweets in a single year.
- About 70% of Facebook users are outside the USA.
- India is currently the fastest-growing country to use LinkedIn, with around 3m total users.
- More than 250 Facebook applications have over a million combined users each month.
- 70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog.
- 38% of bloggers post brand or product reviews.
- More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since December 2008 and more than 60m Facebook users engage with it across these external sites each month.
Impressive stuff, but as always, take these stats with a pinch of salt. As before, no single piece of information can be used to base an online strategy upon, or be used as a forecast as to the direction a specific social media channel may take in the future - you need to fully understand your marketing and business objectives before launching off into this apparently vast space.
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For more kick-ass statistics, check out Econsultancy's Social Media Statistics Compendium. If you want to build a business case for social media, we've got that too, along with RFP guidelines to help you deal with outsourcing. There's also some top-notch data in our recent Social Media and Online PR Report and we also run our renowned Online PR & Social Media and Online Reputation Management training courses on a regular basis to help you get to grips with this complex channel.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Downtown Teens Need your $$$ help blog letter
Dear Friends and Supporters of the Downtown Teens,
I have hesitated to send this email asking for funds for 2010, in light of the crisis in Haiti. I am sure you are all doing as much as you can to help the people of Haiti. However, we (Teka and I) are revving up the Downtown Teens for 2010 and plan to accomplish as much, if not more as previous years. To do so, we will need your help. As you can see from the report and addendum below, we had a great year in 2009—thanks mainly to a single, one-time gift of $10,000.
We are currently planning and budgeting for 2010. Please consider giving a one-time financial gift now or a monthly gift for 2010 so that we can make decisions for the coming year. Currently, Downtown Teens does not have 501c3 tax exempt status, however any checks received prior to January 31, 2010 can be credited to last year and you can receive a tax letter from PIDC. Due to my disgust with the “too big to fail” Bank bail-out, we closed our business account at Bank of America and have temporarily moved the Downtown Teens funds to a separate, but personal account at Saint Louis Community Credit Union, who do not have provision for business accounts. Thus, checks need to be made to either Teka or me. Soon, we will open a new business account for the Teens in a local, community bank or credit union that offers business accounts, once we have received our charter and tax exempt status. Then we will be able to issue tax letters for any donations after January 31, from the Downtown Teens.
Here is the summary from the past 4 years:
Stats are compiled for the 4 years of the program, beginning in 2006 to the end of 2009. Most values are rounded to the nearest $100.
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FY 2006 42 Weeks |
FY 2007 42 Weeks |
FY 2008 42 Weeks |
FY 2009 42 Weeks |
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PIDC jobs |
$ 10,800.00 |
$ 9,400.00 |
$ 15,600.00 |
$ 4,700.00 |
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Other jobs |
$ 11,700.00 |
$ 16,500.00 |
$ 13,200.00 |
$ 29,000.00 |
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Total $ |
$ 22,500.00 |
$ 25,900.00 |
$ 29,800.00 |
$ 33,700.00 |
| Payroll | 11,250.00 | 12,600.00 | 14,800.00 | 15,400.00 |
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Avg # of weekly (P)articipants |
10 |
9 |
8 |
8 |
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Avg pay/P |
$ 1125.00 |
$ 1400.00 |
$ 1850.00 |
$ 1925.00 |
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Total Adult Mentor hours |
710 |
720 |
690 |
700 |
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Tools and Equipment |
$1,400.00
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$600.00
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$800.00
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$300.00
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Customer Invoices |
$ 10,600.00 |
$ 11,100.00 |
$ 12,200.00 |
$ 16,200.00 |
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% of total |
47% |
43% |
41% |
48% |
| Write-off Bad debt |
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| 4700.00 |
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Donors |
$ |
$ 3,100.00 |
$ 4,000.00 |
$ 10,000.00 |
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Mike/Teka Subsidy/ Donation |
$ 13,300.00 |
$ 12,300.00 |
$ 14,400.00 |
$ 12,500.00 |
Addendum to the Downtown Teen report:
2009 was a different year for the Teens. The slow economy led to several of our former teen graduates to being unemployed and not in school full-time. Coupled with a health issue I encountered in late 2008, I decided to offer temporary jobs to 4 of our graduates at $10.71/hour- $12.75/hour, less taxes. These graduates of our program ranged in age from 19-27. They were a big help on the jobs by both modeling proper behavior and skills, as well as providing some additional strength where I was lacking due to my health, which by the way is back to pre-heart attack condition! They were able to give some direction to the younger teens on the job and during our shared meals at the end of each day.
Of those four graduates, three found jobs during the course of the year as of 11/30/09. In addition, the fourth, Walter, just informed me today that he will be starting work at Dierbergs.
Since these employees were not part of the “educational” component of the Downtown Teens, they did not qualify for tax-free stipends. Instead, we paid them a living wage This tremendously added to the expenses of this year but seemed worth it.
Four of them worked for twelve hours a week for 8 weeks, three of them worked for 19 weeks, two of them worked for 27 weeks and one of them worked for 32 weeks—in exchange for rent and utilities.
I primarily employed them initially on PIDC projects—which never got reimbursed by PIDC after Teka and I left the Board, for a loss of $10,000 and on Little House Projects, which we paid out-of-pocket.
The total payroll and/or other payments:
$3072 weeks 1-8
$3168 weeks 9-19
$1536 weeks 20-27
$480 weeks 28-32
$8256 weeks 1-32
I have no idea how other graduates will fare into the coming year of 2010 or whether we will be able to manage to employ any of our graduates in 2010 with the extra burden of expense and bookkeeping. We will wait and see.
Please send donations by Mail: 1538-A N. 17th Street, Saint Louis, MO 63106. Paypal: mbroute66@charter.net
Friday, January 29, 2010
More Local Banks Embrace Growing Grassroots Effort
By Shawn J. Soper, News Editor
Originally published January 29, 2010
BERLIN – With public sentiment growing against the so-called “mega-bank” financial institutions across the country, a growing movement calling for a return to the traditional values community banks offer is gaining momentum.
Large corporate banks, often chastised for their impersonal service and perceived attitude of indifference to their customers, have taken a hit as the current recession drags on, creating a groundswell of support for a return to traditional Main Street banking values. Last year, the federal government doled out billions in relief to the major corporate banks whose shaky lending practices and top-heavy corporate structures have largely been blamed for the current fiscal crisis.
Now, a significant grassroots effort to “Move Your Money,” encouraging Americans to deposit their money in stable neighborhood banks, is gaining momentum everyday as citizens are heeding the advice and closing accounts at large banks and moving their deposits to smaller institutions.
Even the federal government, which was so quick to dole out billions in bailout money to the handful or so of the top banking institutions in the country, is beginning to recognize the distinction between Wall Street and Main Street. Just last week, the House approved a crucial exemption in a regulatory reform bill, which essentially recognizes the difference between the large corporate banks and their smaller community brethren, and the Senate is expected to approve the measure.
While the mega-banks are faced with increased scrutiny and an insistence by the federal government to return to sound lending practices, the small community banks, such as the Bank of Ocean City, Calvin B. Taylor Bank, the Bank of Delmarva, Farmer’s Bank of Willards and several others in the area, have been doing it all along. As a result, more and more people are getting on the “Move Your Money” bandwagon.
“This has turned into a real grassroots effort and it’s starting to gain some momentum,” said Bank of Ocean City Executive Vice President Reid Tingle this week. “Local money is deposited and reinvested right in the community. We’re not in the business of selling off loans. The money deposited here is reinvested here.”
Taylor Bank President Ray Thompson said this week there has been some sentiment for breaking up the big corporate banks blamed in large part for the current financial crisis, and at the same time, the smaller community banks are gaining in popularity and political clout.
“There has been this movement in Congress to disassemble the mega-banks,” he said. “I really feel some of the largest banks should be disassembled. At the same time, there has been a grassroots movement to ‘move your money.’ A bunch of folks are getting together to urge citizens to get back to the traditional, more stable Main Street banks.”
As a result, the movement to go back to smaller community-based institutions is gaining momentum, largely because the faces and names behind the desks are familiar to the customers.
“The community banks are locally owned and operated,” said Thompson. “The management and the boards of directors are from right here in the community and they understand the needs of the community.”
Tingle agreed, saying the community-based banks, like his Bank of Ocean City, for example, have developed relationships with their clients over the years in sharp contrast to the cold, impersonal mega-banks.
“Most community banks serve a tighter geographic area and they know their customers’ names and faces,” he said. “It’s more about personalized service. We know who we are lending to. We know the borrower and they know us. This area is extremely fortunate to have several strong community banks.”
Traditionally, deposits made in smaller community banks are reinvested in the neighborhoods from whence they came, creating a symbiotic relationship of sorts between depositors and borrowers. The community banks serve as a middleman to ensure money deposited in the community is returned to the community.
“We have a vested interest for our customers to be successful,” said Tingle. “When the customer succeeds and does better, the whole community does better.”
Thompson agreed, saying loans to small businesses and private citizens in the community are fueled by the deposits of their neighbors and the people who support them.
“Community banks extract deposits from the local market and lend it right back into the community,” he said. “It’s all based on sound banking practices. We’re not writing exotic loans and we’re verifying income and verifying the borrowers have the ability to repay the loans. There is substantially less risk because we know our borrowers.”
For Bank of Ocean City and Taylor Bank and several others in the area, those same sound banking practices have been adhered to for over a century in the local community, and the current financial crisis has triggered a return to that.
“They’re talking about getting back to fundamentals, but the smaller community banks have never left them,” said Thompson. “We’re doing what we’ve always done – verifying income and verifying collateral to ensure the borrowers have the ability to repay the loan.”
Thompson said a return to the traditional practices of the smaller community banks offers an opportunity to turn the financial crisis around.
“We were not part of the financial crisis that erupted a couple of years ago and peaked in 2008,” he said. “We weren’t part of the problem then, but we can part of the solution now.”
For example, a common practice in the resort area is for local community banks to loan seasonal businesses start-up capital to get going again after closing up for the winter. The loans are based on solid track records of the borrowers and their ability to repay them as the season develops. The banks know their borrowers and are confident in their ability to repay the loans based on a proven track record, a partnership nearly impossible with corporate mega-banks.
“You deposit your money with us and we lend it to your neighbors who own and operate the businesses you frequent,” said Thompson. “The mega-banks don’t make loans to restaurants and seasonal businesses. Imagine what that would do to Ocean City.”
Thompson said the federal bailout of several mega-banks in the last year or so soured many customers struggling with their own personal finances, contributing to the movement to return to traditional community banks that did not receive or seek the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds.
“The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department made those big banks take the money,” he said. “The local community banks were never part of that, nor did they need to be. Taylor Bank never lined up at the TARP window and we never felt the need to do so.”
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
PSC staff say AmerenUE's Pure Power misleads customers about green energy - WDAF
PSC staff say AmerenUE's Pure Power misleads customers about green energy
ST. LOUIS (AP) — AmerenUE's Pure Power program is under scrutiny by the Missouri Public Service Commission.Regulators say the utility's customers don't know what they're getting when they agree to pay extra to support renewable energy development.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday that PSC staff are concerned that many of the 6,000 AmerenUE customers who are paying an extra monthly fee don't know how little of it actually supports green energy.
PSC says that less than half is spent on renewable energy certificates. The rest goes to a San Francisco-based administrator's marketing, administration or profits.
The group says that at least 75 percent of the renewable energy certificates will be purchased from wind projects and at least half will be in Missouri and Illinois.
via fox4kc.com
Are you a Pure Power subscriber? What do you think?
Foreign oil dependence breeds terrorism
"Operation Free arrives at Washington University in St. Louis for a discussion on America's dependence on foreign oil."
Rich Nations Call for Haiti Debt Relief
PARIS Broadening the relief effort, the Paris Club of international creditors issued an appeal Tuesday for nations owed money by Haiti to cancel the debts to help reconstruction after the devastating earthquake a week ago.
A statement from the informal grouping, which meets each month in Paris and is composed of major industrialized countries, came as international agencies pressed for the provision of greater security to protect the distribution of aid in Haiti and the supply route leading from the neighboring Dominican Republic.
The Paris Club said that last July its members canceled all their claims on Haiti, at that time totaling $214 million.
Considering the financing needs that Haiti will face in reconstructing the country, Paris Club creditors call upon other bilateral creditors also to urgently provide full debt cancellation to Haiti, the statement said.
The response from creditors was not clear. The Paris Club said that Haitis public external debt, before factoring in relief offered to very poor countries, totaled $1.885 billion at the end of September 2008. The appeal came as relief efforts in Haiti were still stymied by bottlenecks and security fears.
The United Nations Security Council is expected to agree on Tuesday to send an additional 3,500 soldiers and police officers to Haiti, a move requested by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to protect the distribution of emergency supplies and to ensure public order if post-earthquake frustrations boil over.
Thousands of American troops are being deployed in Haiti, but they are expected to concentrate on humanitarian aid, not security, said Alain Le Roy, the head of United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Aid experts say they view Haiti as a challenging environment in which to operate: even before the earthquake, a United Nations peacekeeping force was deployed there.
Greg Barrow, a spokesman for the World Food Program, said the agency an arm of the United Nations wanted a formal system in place to ensure security arrangements for the distribution of food from four hubs in Port-au-Prince, the capital, and 40 more such focal points around Haiti.
He said diesel fuel was being shipped in from neighboring Dominican Republic by road and the convoys required a security escort.
Because of the lack of security in Port-au-Prince, he said, we had to scale back some distributions, not because we werent able to reach the people but because we didnt have security.
But, he said in a telephone interview, security was not the primary obstacle to the distribution of aid.
The primary issue is the catastrophic damage to the infrastructure from ports to roads to bridges that affects the ability of all relief agencies to stream aid to survivors of the earthquake.
via nytimes.com
It's time to do this.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
1959 Bel Air vs. 2009 Malibu crash test
Peace,
Mike Baldwin
314-974-7432
1538-A N. 17th Street
Saint Louis, MO 63106
From: Posterous (mlbaldwin) [mailto:post@mlbaldwin.posterous.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:56 PM
To: mlbaldwin@charter.net
Subject: Posterous | Re: Catholic relief agencies. Please be generous.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Catholic relief agencies. Please be generous.
The following international aid agencies are working with partner agencies and local religious leaders in Haiti and are accepting donations for victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake.
• Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency, is accepting donations by phone at 1-800-736-3467; online at www.crs.org;
or by mail to CRS, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, MD 21203-7090.• The Salesians are accepting donations by phone at 1-914-633-8344; online at www.salesianmissions.org;
or by mail to Salesian Disaster Relief, Salesian Missions, P.O. Box 30, New Rochelle, NY 10802-0030.• The Archdiocese of Miami, which has a large Haitian population, has set up a place to donate via its website,www.newmiamiarch.org
.• Caritas Internationalis is accepting donations for Haiti atwww.caritas.org
.• Food for the Poor is also accepting donations atwww.foodforthepoor.org
Peace,
Mike
Texting Relief Funds only takes a moment: Haiti Earthquake Relief: How You Can Help:
An earthquake centered near the impoverished Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince caused the collapse of several buildings and an unknown number of fatalities Tuesday. The quake measured 7.0 on the Richter scale and at least 1.8 million people live within the area where the earthquake had its highest intensity.
President Obama said on Tuesday that his "thoughts and prayers" were with the people of Haiti. "We are closely monitoring the situation and we stand ready to assist the people of Haiti," Obama said in a statement. The Obama administration said that the State Department, USAID and the U.S. military were working to coordinate an assessment of the situation and any possible assistance.
Huffington Post Impact is working to collect a comprehensive list of links and ways to get involved in relief efforts, detailed below.
NOTE: We will continually be updating this page. The best way for you to help right now is to give through one of the organizations below.
•The American Red Cross is pledging an initial $200,000 to assist communities impacted by this earthquake. They expect to provide immediate needs for food, water, temporary shelter, medical services and emotional support. They are accepting donations through their International Response Fund.
•UNICEF has issued a statement that "Children are always the most vulnerable population in any natural disaster, and UNICEF is there for them." UNICEF requests donations for relief for children in Haiti via their Haiti Earthquake Fund. You can also call 1-800-4UNICEF.
•Donate through Wyclef Jean's foundation, Yele Haiti. Text "Yele" to 501501 and $5 will be charged to your phone bill and given to relief projects through the organization.
•Operation USA is appealing for donations of funds from the public and corporate donations in bulk of health care materials, water purification supplies and food supplements which it will ship to the region from its base in the Port of Los Angeles. Donate online at www.opusa.org, by phone at 1-800-678-7255 or, by check made out to Operation USA, 3617 Hayden Ave, Suite A, Culver City, CA 90232.
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');}•Ben Stiller's Stillerstrong campaign will be temporarily diverting all donations to support the Haiti relief effort.
•Partners In Health reports its Port-au-Prince clinical director , Louise Ivers, has appealed for assistance: "Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS... Temporary field hospital by us at UNDP needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." Donate to their Haiti earthquake fund.
•Mercy Corps is sending a team of emergency responders to assess damage, and seek to fulfill immediate needs of quake survivors. The agency aided families after earthquakes in Peru in 2007, China and Pakistan in 2008, and Indonesia last year. Donate online, call 1-888-256-1900 or send checks to Mercy Corps Haiti Earthquake Fund; Dept NR; PO Box 2669; Portland, OR 97208.
•Direct Relief is committing up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations. Their partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children's Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital, which are particularly active in emergency response. Donate to Direct Relief online.
•Oxfam is rushing in teams from around the region to respond to the situation to provide clean water, shelter, sanitation and help people recover. Donate to Oxfam America online.
•The Baptist Haiti Mission is operating an 82-bed hospital that is "overflowing with injured." Donate online to BHM and 100% of your donation will go to the relief effort.
•International Medical Corps is assembling a team of first responders and resources to provide lifesaving medical care and other emergency services to survivors of the earthquake. Donate online.
The world is so much smaller with the advent of social media. Show your care and concern in just seconds, by texting relief funds to the various organizations who have set up such text lines. Then, spend a moment in prayer/meditation/thought for those most directly impacted by this natural disaster.
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