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January 28, 2010 at 8:45 AM

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Update on Haiti donations and events

Posted by Kristi Heim

Local fund-raising events, volunteer drives, non-profit campaigns and other efforts to help Haiti continued this week.

Tonight Seattle Greendrinks, SeaMo, ReVision Labs and Global Washington will jointly host a benefit for Fonkoze, a microfinance and development organization in Haiti working on emergency relief and long term reconstruction. A suggested donation of $20 includes live music, 6 to 9 p.m. at the Pike Brewery. Details are here.

Fonkoze board member Melanie Howard, Charlene Balick of the Grameen Foundation and a volunteer recently returned from Haiti will talk about the current situation and ongoing relief efforts. The brewery is donating 25 percent of its receipts from food and drink to Fonkoze.

Seattle non-profit InterConnection is looking for donations of used laptops with Pentium 3 or Pentium 4 chips and accepting them by mail or drop off (shipping is free for donors). InterConnection is working with World Concern to get the equipment into schools, hospitals and NGOs in Haiti that have lost hard drives and laptops and have no resources to replace them.



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Wide receiver Pierre Garcon of the Indianapolis Colts celebrates with the Haitian flag after the Colts defeated the New York Jets.

The non-profit NetHope managed to bring Internet connections to NGOs working on the ground in Haiti this week through a long-distance WiFi network it set up in Port-au-Prince. Frank Schott, NetHope's global program director, operated a kind of command center from his home in Bellevue to coordinate efforts. NetHope is now providing Internet access through a shared hub to CARE, Save the Children, Concern and Catholic Relief Services, among others. The group is made up of 28 of the world's largest humanitarian organizations.

Brown Paper Tickets, a company based in Fremont that donates five percent of its profits to charities, added a microfinance partner in Haiti to its list of beneficiaries. Ticket buyers can direct part of the ticketing fee to one of three categories, and FINCA, which operates village banking in Haiti, will receive a portion of the proceeds.

The Mobile Giving Foundation announced that mobile donations have surpassed $33 million. The foundation has continued to add non-profits to its platform and now enables mobile phone users to send donations to 25 different organizations in the U.S. and Canada that are working on relief to Haiti.

Corporate donations surpassed $122 million two weeks after the earthquake, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center. About 300 companies have contributed to relief efforts, and 49 of them have donated $1 million or more.

Today the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that more than $528 million has been raised in total for U.S.-based non-profits. Here's a list of relief groups and the amounts they've received.

Mercy Corps created a new way for people to raise money with personal fund-raising pages, designed by donors with personal messages and photos and used by schools, companies and other groups to give together. Mercy Corps said it has raised more than $500,000 from the pages so far.

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