Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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If you've made a donation, or planning to make a donation to aid in any fund that's providing relief to Haiti, we'll match your donation in GeekGold. Just send a copy of your receipt or proof of donation, and username, with the subject line - Haiti Donation to contact@geekdo.com and we'll update your account within a few days.
Red Cross Donation Page
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Alfred Das
Netherlands
's-Hertogenbosch
Noord-Brabant
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A very fine offer indeed. Is the GG matching open to donations made to official national relief funds?
Regardless, for the Netherlands go through:
Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties (SHO) (also known as Giro555).
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Virre Linwendil "Now go look at my photos and thumbs the once you like" Annergård
Sweden
Stockholm
Forza Bajen!
... and still sober
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Here is a list of Swedish Relife organisations that is involved and how they plan to take part (In Swedish)
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article6437134.ab
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(And yes how do you handle the international part of this, I guess the basic thing would be to use US$ as the exchange rate so it is fair on all)
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Adrian Todea
Australia
Adelaide
South Australia
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I've already donated through our company (as a payroll deduction) who will then match it and send it to the Australian Red Cross Haiti Fund. Does that count?
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0,07 Geek Gold
Italy
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Once again, BGG, thanks for this noble initiative!
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Samuel Sol
Brazil
São Paulo
SP
All engines full to awesome land!
*tap* *tap* Is this thing on?
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Ok, time to try some accounting tricks to donate more
 Wonderful initiative Aldie.
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fierman
Netherlands
near Nijmegen
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Sorry if I don't understand this.. but I don't see how aid organizations can benefit from a geekgold donation.
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Jordan Stewart
Canada
Saint John
New Brunswick
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fierman wrote: Sorry if I don't understand this.. but I don't see how aid organizations can benefit from a geekgold donation.
You donate real money, and in return get that many Geek Gold added to your account.
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Virre Linwendil "Now go look at my photos and thumbs the once you like" Annergård
Sweden
Stockholm
Forza Bajen!
... and still sober
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fierman wrote: Sorry if I don't understand this.. but I don't see how aid organizations can benefit from a geekgold donation.
Otherway around, we give real money to relife organisations, and for that we get geekgold.
We more or less exchange real money to geekgold by giving it to relife organisations
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Is there a minimum amount to give though, as we here can donate via textmessage / SMS.
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Philip Hwang
United States
Elmsford
New York
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virre wrote: donate via textmessage / SMS.
The following organizations are accepting SMS donations in the US only:
* SMS text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts
* SMS text “YELE” to 501501 to Donate $5 to Yele Haiti’s Earthquake Relief efforts
* SMS text "GIVE10" to 20222 to donate $10 to Direct Relief
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Daniel Drickman
United States
Woodland Hills
California
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Maybe I should post this elsewhere, but my wife and I are looking to make a decent sized donation to helping in Haiti. However we would like to make the donation to a church/Christian based charity. Does anyone know of one like this?
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Fabrizio Andreasi Bassi
Italy
Forli
Italy
MERKNERA
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Cos'abbiamo in Italia?
Z.
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zamana wrote: Cos'abbiamo in Italia?
Z.
Un elenco di possiblità (sicuramente non esaustivo): http://www.dillinger.it/terremoto-haiti-come-aiutare-39274.h...
(A list of possiblities, surely not complete.)
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Let's Play Two!
United States
Edwardsville
Illinois
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DanKD wrote: Maybe I should post this elsewhere, but my wife and I are looking to make a decent sized donation to helping in Haiti. However we would like to make the donation to a church/Christian based charity. Does anyone know of one like this?
http://www.crcna.org/pages/crwrc.cfm is one that we've used - they do great work. This is the page for the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
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Daniel Drickman
United States
Woodland Hills
California
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Thank you, it appears that is perfect for what I am looking for.
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Dan Foster
United States
St. Paul
Minnesota
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DanKD wrote: Maybe I should post this elsewhere, but my wife and I are looking to make a decent sized donation to helping in Haiti. However we would like to make the donation to a church/Christian based charity. Does anyone know of one like this?
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is one. And if you donate all the proceeds will go directly to aid as the administrative costs of the organization are paid for out of the United Methodist Church's annual budget.
The link below will bring you directly to the Haiti relief donation page.
http://secure.gbgm-umc.org/donations/umcor/donate.cfm?code=4...
Peace,
Dan
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Suzan
Netherlands
Enschede
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Der Das wrote: A very fine offer indeed. Is the GG matching open to donations made to official national relief funds? Regardless, for the Netherlands go through: Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties (SHO) (also known as Giro555).
We made a donation to Giro 555 already, I could make a screenshot of my bank transfer
I hope everybody can donate some, lots of little bits will become a lot!
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Christopher Seguin
United States
Cleveland
Ohio
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DanKD wrote: Maybe I should post this elsewhere, but my wife and I are looking to make a decent sized donation to helping in Haiti. However we would like to make the donation to a church/Christian based charity. Does anyone know of one like this?
There is an organization out there called the "Tin Roof Society". They currently have some people on the ground in Haiti doing relief work as they speak.
You can find some information here: http://www.facebook.com/tinroofsociety
and here - http://www.firstmedina.org/base.cfm?page_id=1113
This is going off of memory, as the former youth pastor at our church (and one of the founders of the Tin Roof Society) announced this yesterday. I think he leaves for Haiti some time this week, and one of the other members is already there. We did a collection after church for the organization yesterday.
I also know that there is a Catholic-based relief organization that has been in Haiti for over 35 years, but I do not remember their name. Their Haiti director was interviewed on 20/20 last Friday.
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Will
United States
Fresno
California
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fierman wrote: Sorry if I don't understand this.. but I don't see how aid organizations can benefit from a geekgold donation.
The idea is that Aldie is offering incentives to encourage people to donate. So they will benifit from increased donations. Even if just one single person donates who wouldn't otherwise have (because of Aldie's offer) I think its worth it.
And of course people who otherwise would have donated anyway get a little recognization of thier efforts
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Let's Play Two!
United States
Edwardsville
Illinois
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Partners in Health is another organization that has been doing work in Haiti for over 20 years. For anyone who might be interested, their founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, was profiled in Tracy Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains. It's a great read.
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Jeff Mays
United States
Cincinnati
Ohio
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DanKD wrote: Maybe I should post this elsewhere, but my wife and I are looking to make a decent sized donation to helping in Haiti. However we would like to make the donation to a church/Christian based charity. Does anyone know of one like this?
www.worldvision.org should meet your needs. They do wonderful work around the world and already have people in Haiti (I believe giving to an organization that already has a presence there helps get things done a little quicker). They are one of many groups, but are probably who I will be going through.
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G. Gambill
United States
Shawnee on Delaware
Pennsylvania
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geberus wrote: DanKD wrote: Maybe I should post this elsewhere, but my wife and I are looking to make a decent sized donation to helping in Haiti. However we would like to make the donation to a church/Christian based charity. Does anyone know of one like this? The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is one. And if you donate all the proceeds will go directly to aid as the administrative costs of the organization are paid for out of the United Methodist Church's annual budget. The link below will bring you directly to the Haiti relief donation page. http://secure.gbgm-umc.org/donations/umcor/donate.cfm?code=4...Peace, Dan
Yes, UMCOR is the one my wife and I donate to for this reason. 100% goes to Haiti. Also, our pastor informed us yesterday that the director of UMCOR was in Haiti at the time of the quake and was one of the many who sadly lost their lives. May he and everyone else who has passed from this tragedy rest in peace.
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Alan How
United Kingdom
Bromley
Kent
Do you know about Counter magazine? Geekmail me for more details
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Just checking the donomination of currencies. Is the translation into US$ for the purposes of your banner and target of 10,000?
How will you handle currencies other than the US$?
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BT Carpenter
United States
Reston
Virginia
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If we've donated through our place of worship (via Check), is there a mechanism to handle that?
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David Reed
United States
College Station
Texas
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DanKD wrote: Maybe I should post this elsewhere, but my wife and I are looking to make a decent sized donation to helping in Haiti. However we would like to make the donation to a church/Christian based charity. Does anyone know of one like this?
chrisnd wrote: I also know that there is a Catholic-based relief organization that has been in Haiti for over 35 years, but I do not remember their name. Their Haiti director was interviewed on 20/20 last Friday.
The organization you're trying to remember is Catholic Relief Services: http://crs.org/ - They've been working in Haiti for years (so they already have some organization). Unlike some other agencies, a lot of their buildings and support infrastructure is still intact (probably due to having projects throughout the country, though their headquarters in Port au Prince is miraculous still in place (I almost wrote undamaged, but I think that there is very little there that is not damaged in some way)), and they already have increased the relief supplies and workers that would already be flowing to Haiti. My wife and I give to CRS on a monthly basis and have already given an extra donation this week (and intend to give a couple more later on in the year, once the public spotlight is off and the hard work of rebuilding is really going).
Aldie, this is the sort of action that sets BGG apart from other on-line communities. Yes, a lot of them are doing this kind of fund-raising right now, but we have, time after time, initiated this sort of thing (frequently from the user end of things). Thanks for rewarding good intent and human kindness!
Edits: to incorporate other postings and clarify.
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