Disaster Relief Efforts

Triangle Community Foundation staff are continuing to monitor and assess the relief efforts in response to the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.  Already, TCF donors and friends have contributed more than $135,000 to various organizations supporting this work in Haiti.  For your information, below are several ways you can contribute to these efforts:

1. Give to the Haiti Relief Fund

Haiti Relief Fund:  Triangle Community Foundation has established a fund to respond to the immediate needs of this crisis. Our hope is that the fund also will have enough resources in the weeks and months to come to support the long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts that will take place in this devastated nation. We will post updates on how these funds are being used on this website.

TCF Board member Cécile Noël, a medical provider, traveled to Haiti in early February with a medical team through a local church, Crosspointe Church in Cary. An initial disbursement was made to this group to provide immediate medicine, supplies, and kits to Haitian residents. The trip was one week long, Feb 6-13 and the medical providers went to Jacmel, Haiti, an area south of Port-au-Prince. The group will be returning in July for further relief work.

Haiti’s Cultural Capital Jacmel Damaged In Quake: NPR Story about Haiti’s Cultural Capital Jacmel affected by the quake “mostly two-story stone buildings with ironwork and balconies reminiscent of New Orleans’ French Quarter is now in ruins.”

For fundholders:  to recommend a grant from your fund, go to “login to my fund” and type in keyword “Haiti.”

2. Give Directly to Organizations Responding to the Crises:

  • American Red Cross has already released $10 million for Haiti relief efforts, and will be adding more.  The Red Cross also has emergency aid workers on the ground in Chile.
  • Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is working to provide immediate relief and long-term support to earthquake survivors in Haiti.
  • Doctors Without Borders   More than 700 Doctors without Borders staff are working to provide emergency medical care to earthquake survivors in and around Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Currently in response to the earthquake in Chile, Doctors Without Borders is assessing the damage and will support relief efforts through distribution of medical supplies.
  • Friends of the World Food Program has distributed a million food rations in and around Port-au-Price, and aims to move 10 million ready-to-eat meals and establish four humanitarian hubs to deliver food assistance to at least 30 locations across Haiti.
  • Hearts with Haiti operates homes for former street children and disabled children in Haiti.
  • Hope for Haiti has been supporting educational, medical, spiritual, and construction projects in Haiti since 2000.
  • Partners In Health has been working in Haiti over 20 years and is currently at work setting up field hospitals.
  • Project HOPE, in its largest single mobilization of volunteers since the Tsunami, is responding to the massive earthquake in Haiti in the HOPE way - sending volunteer doctors, nurses and medical technicians to the affected area. In Chile, Project Hope is gearing up to respond to Chile’s request for medical supplies.
  • United States Fund for UNICEF UNICEF is providing safe drinking water to remote communities in Haiti and is standing by ready to assist in the aftermath of the earthquake in Chile.
  • William J. Clinton Foundation As the UN’s Special Envoy to Haiti, President Clinton is asking everyone to give what you can to help the people of Haiti respond and recover from this disaster. 100% of proceeds will go toward disaster response.

    • Additionally, Network for Good and Interaction have posted a list of member agencies providing immediate aid. We are in the process of gathering information about local nonprofits and their efforts to support this crisis and will provide updated information as we receive it.

    3. Give to a Corporate Fund:

    Lenovo Hope Fund for Disaster Relief:  Lenovo employees may make a contribution to this fund, and all proceeds will go to the American Red Cross to support its relief efforts in Haiti.

    Golden Corral has established the Golden Corral Hope for Haiti Fund through Triangle Community Foundation to assist earthquake victims.  All employee contributions will be matched by the company.  Join James Maynard, Ted Fowler, and Golden Corral Corporation in supporting relief work that will help rebuild the lives of the Haitian people.

    If you are interested in setting up a fund for your business or corporation in response to this crisis, please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 919.474.8370.  All contributions to the fund are tax deductible and will be acknowledged by the Foundation.

    For more information please contact Andrea Bazan at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or Lori O’Keefe at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 919. 474.8370.