Disaster Relief Resources
Resources for Disaster Grant Making
AGM has created this Disaster Relief Resources page to assist members and colleagues with guidance on providing funding and support for global and local disasters.
Resources for the Japanese Tsunami
Japan was hit with a 9.0 magnitude eartquake which spawned a deadly tsunami on March 11. Details about this tragedy continue to emerge. AGM has updated its Disaster Relief Resource Page with information on sites providing emergency support and funding to help those in Japan.
- The American Red Cross International Relief Fund is stationed in the affected areas. Text REDCROSS to 90999 from your cell phone to donate $10.00 to the Red Cross.
- The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is sending relief to the affected areas. From their website click on "Donate to JDC's Japan/Pacific Emergency Relief Fund."
- Global Giving is taking donations that go toward several charities that have sent emergency relief workers to the pacific area. From their website click on 'Japan Earthquake' and Tsunami Relief Fund.
- The International Medical Corps are putting together relief teams that will bring supplies to those most in need. You can text MED to 80888 from any mobile phone to give $10 or go to their website.
- The Salvation Army has been in Japan since 1895 and is currently providing emergency assistance to those in need. To contribute, text 'JAPAN' or 'QUAKE' to 80888 to make a $10 donation.
- Save the Children is mobilizing to provide immediate humanitarian relief of emergency health care and provision of non-food items and shelter.
- OXFAM USA is poised to respond if disaster strikes vulnerable countries in its path.
Other articles and resources
of interest:
Council on Foundations
Google Crisis Response Page
Network for Good Response Page
New York Better Business Bureau
Resources for the Pakistan Floods
- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- ReliefWeb: A project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This Web site serves as a clearing house for information related to the earthquakes and ongoing situational reports on the Pakistan floods.
- AlertNet: A humanitarian news network from the Reuters Foundation that provides detailed news updates on the extent of damage and ongoing humanitarian relief efforts.
- InterAction, the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), lists their members responding to the floods in Pakistan.
- Give2Asia launched a Pakistan Flood Relief Fund after receiving initial commitments of $30,000 from private donors wishing to help survivors.
Earthquake In Chile: Ways to help
The Mobile Giving Foundation, which organized text message relief for Haiti, has vetted the organizations for donating to Chile. Click here for details
Yahoo! News created a page with organizations involved in the relief efforts specific to Chile.
Google Crisis Response page for organizations offering assistance in Chile.
Internal Revenue Service recently announced Chile earthquake qualified for disaster treatment.
Earthquake in Haiti: Help on its way
Local efforts are underway to help the many Haitian communities affected. As your organization plans ways in which to respond to the short- and long-term needs of the people in Haiti as well as the Haitian families in our own community, please keep AGM informed via email so we may include the information in our web resources.
AGM has culled the resources and links below from the organizations' websites or press releases.
FAQs About Charitable Organizations Providing Disaster Relief from the Internal Revenue Service.
AGM Members Getting Involved
The Clipper Ship Foundation gave $10,000 to Oxfam and $10,000 to CARE for relief efforts.
Draper Laboratory and its employees contributed a total of $74,336 for organizations providing relief to survivors of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Draper matched employee donations to the American Red Cross, UNICEF and Partners in Health during a drive that ran from Jan. 15 through Feb. 15. Partners in Health received $30,472; the American Red Cross received $28,256; and UNICEF received $15,608.
The Eos Foundation Trustees gave $50,000 to Partners in Health and plan to give additional funds as rebuilding efforts get underway.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is providing a $1 million grant to Catholic Relief Services (CRS), which has experienced personnel and a stock of emergency supplies in Haiti. This grant will help cover CRS’s initial relief efforts, which include addressing the immediate shelter, food, water, sanitation, health and other needs of those affected by the quake. CRS will also continue on-the-ground assessment of the damage.
The Hyams Foundation provided many grants for Haitian relief.
• $10,000 to Dorchester Nazarene Compassionate Center, Inc. for 2010 expenses of its Food Pantry Program
• $25,000 to Haitian-American Public Health Initiatives, Inc. (HAPHI) for expenses of outreach to the community, mental health support and assistance with the Temporary Protective Status process
• $20,000 to Irish Immigration Center, Inc. for 2010 expenses for legal services related to Temporary Protective Status for Haitians, including its work in collaboration with HAPHI
• $25,000 to the Association of Haitian Women for 2010 expenses of additional staff time to respond to the advocacy needs of local Haitian women, children and families precipitated by the Haitian earthquake crisis
The Haiti Fund at the Boston Foundation
All contributions to this fund will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $1 million, by the Ansara Family Fund at the Boston Foundation. Jim and Karen Ansara, together with the Board of the Boston Foundation, are creating this fund to focus on longer-term human rights and reconstruction issues in Haiti.
Contributions can be made in the following ways:
- Fund advisors can login to Advisor Xpress and recommend a grant to the Boston Foundation with the grant to be used for the Haiti Fund.
- Make check payable to the Boston Foundation with Haiti Fund in the memo line. Checks should be sent to Fund Administration, The Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116.
- Donate by credit card. Click here to access our secure site. Select Haiti Fund in the drop down menu.
Lenny Zakim Fund
When the earthquake hit Haiti, the whole world woke up to the needs of our neighbors there. LZF immediately reached out to our grant recipient, Youth and Family Enrichment Services (YOFES), an organization that serves Boston's Haitian-American community. We learned that these friends desperately needed support for the mental health needs of Haitian-American families in Boston.
LZF connected YOFES to Dr. Marshall Forstein of the Cambridge Health Alliance's Residency Program in Psychiatry. Now, several faculty and residents, as individual volunteers, are generously providing much needed mental health counseling for this bereaved community.
In addition, with an emergency grant from The Lenny Zakim Fund, YOFES is publishing a pamphlet, in Haitian Creole, that will aid parents to talk with children in developmentally appropriate ways about this terrible tragedy.
The Ludcke Foundation gave a grant of $25,000 to Partners in Health.
The Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation has contributed $100,000 to the CJP Haiti Fund, which will channel most funds to Partners in Health.
The State Street Foundation is making a $400,000 grant to Oxfam America in support of its recovery efforts. In addition, the Foundation will also match up to $100,000 through a special Matching Gift Program for all employees globally to pledge additional support to Oxfam America’s efforts.
United Way Worldwide has a Disaster Relief Fund
Gifts to the Fund support long-term recovery efforts to rebuild lives and infrastructure devastated by disaster and to address educational, financial and health-related challenges. You can go to the link above or Text HAITI to 864833 to give. Checks can also be sent to the address below with the "Fund" referenced in either the memo line or an enclosed correspondence:
United Way Worldwide P.O. Box 630568 Baltimore, MD 21263-0568
United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley Fund for the Haitian Community in Greater Boston
The impact of the catastrophe will extend beyond the borders of the island nation, adversely affecting the Haitian Diaspora here in Boston. Families will need resources to get in touch with loved ones, care for family members and recover from staggering impact of the earthquake. For this purpose, United Way has set up a fund at http://www.chooseyourimpact.org/haiti to help provide counseling and crisis management services to local families as well as emergency financial support to keep families affected by the earthquake stable.
Local Efforts:
Resource Center - Dorchester, Massachusetts
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced Wednesday afternoon that the City of Boston, in conjunction with a number of community partners, the creation of a resource center to assist the victims and families impacted by this tragedy. The center will be operated out of SEIU Local 1199, located at 150 Mount Vernon Street in Dorchester. For more information can contact the center by calling (617) 284-1199.
Fund for Boston Neighborhoods, Inc. – Haitian Family Relief
This fund will be administered by Bank of America and donations to the fund can be at any local Bank of America branch.
International Efforts:
Other Information Sources
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