Sources of Information: How to Decide Where to Give to Aid Haiti
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
January 15, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- The Foundation Center’s Philantopic blog has a long list of earthquake-related information, including organizations that are providing assistance, advice to donors, and ways to give on social media and through cell phones.
- The White House’s Web site features President Barack Obama’s remarks on Haiti and points people to the Center for International Disaster Information’s Web site for information on how to contribute.
- The BBB Wise Giving Alliance gives general advice about how to vet charities and also has a list of charities providing assistance in Haiti.
- Charity Navigator has tips for how to ensure your money does good along with a list of charities providing assistance.
- Interaction, a group that represents international charities, offers guidelines on ways to help and a list of its members that are responding to the disaster.
- Timothy Ogden, editor in chief of Philanthropy Action, an online publication for donors, has a list of ways that companies can help in Haiti on the Harvard Business Review’s Web site.
- Saundra Schimmelpfenning, an aid worker employed in Thailand after the tsunamis, is asking other humanitarian workers to share their advice on where to give. The blog includes both general advice to donors from aid workers – “donate to an organization with an established presence, quickly,” to cite one piece of advice – as well as endorsements of specific organizations.
- Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors makes recommendations for how philanthropists can be effective in their giving to Haiti.
