I usually try to find funds that will get matching contributions, and while my employer does this for the Red Cross Haiti Relief fund, it probably wouldn’t be a smart idea to post my employee number and password online, even to allow people to contribute with matching funds from my company. Does anyone know of another mechanism for getting matching donations?

45,000 was the estimate reported yesterday by the Haitian ambassador. That country was barely starting to stabilize, and was in no position to sustain a disaster like this. Despite the deaths and injuries, I hope the country comes out of this with strength to keep up the positive gains it had been making the past two or three years.

Try and find corporations that are doing dollar for dollar matching. I know salesforce.com was doing something along these lines, so my employer matched 2500 worth of employee donations, sent it in through salesforce who matched and our total contribution became just shy of 10k.

Thanks for posting this PB

In general, it’s sooo hard to tell whether your money actually makes it directly to the Haiti efforts. Even the text message efforts, which have raised millions of dollars, won’t get to Haiti for 90 days (although the Red Cross says they will advance some of the funds).

Here is another good one: The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, where 99.5% of the monies go directly toward Haiti.