Additional ways to donate

Thank you to all of you who responded. I've been talking to many of you about your experiences in trying to help. Here are some additional resources. Please, if you have any information that would help people decide or find ways to help post a comment. Let us know your experience.

American Airlines is apparently taking doctors and nurses to Haiti for free: you can call 212 697 9767

Ups will ship anything 50lbs or less for Free to Haiti

and some more great organizations to donate to:

-UNICEF.org (for whom children are the first priority)
-HOPEInternational.org (my college friend Pete is the president, so I know it's trustworthy)
-PartnerswithHaiti.org (my uncle is the treasurer, so, again, I know the money will go where it is needed)
-Foodforthepoor.org
-Doctorswithoutborders.org
-RedCross.org


Thanks again for all your input.

Marlon Krieger

Trusted ways to donate to Haiti

Please help in some way:

AmeriCares has pledged $5 million to Haitian quake relief, and is soliciting donations to a general emergency disaster relief fund to help it accomplish that.

CARE is sending relief workers into the city of Port-au-Prince and needs funds to support its efforts. Suggested donations range from $50 to $1,000, but you can name your own amount if you prefer.

Catholic Relief Services has an office in Haiti, and luckily it’s still standing even though one of its neighbors collapsed. The organization is accepting donations of any amount.

Direct Relief International has committed up to $1 million in aid through two on-the-ground partners, and is sending containers of medical material aid.

Oxfam has 200 people on the ground to deal with the crisis, and began its efforts by trying to get clean water to victims of the quake. One of its staffers recorded a podcast describing the situation. You can donate on the American or UK site, depending on where you’re located.

Yele Haiti is sponsored by prominent Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean. You can donate through its website or via text message as described in the next segment.

UPDATE: Google Support Disaster Relief is a website Google has updated to respond to the crisis. Google has promised $1 million in support, but the site is also an easy place to donate money to either UNICEF or CARE. It also provides hospital addresses and links to sources for news on the situation.

Donate With a Text Message

Musician Wyclef Jean has used Twitter to rally web users to contribute to his grassroots Yele Haiti earthquake fund. He’s urged his followers to text “Yele” to the number 501501. If you send the text, the organization will receive $5. The amount will be added to your next cell phone bill. Consider retweeting Wyclef’s updates and get some of your Twitter followers to donate, too.

There’s another texting option spreading through Twitter. You can text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 via the Red Cross. Thanks to ABC News for pointing these out.

Laurence Miller Gallery Exhibitiions

It's been a couple of months of killer exhibitions in New York; Kandinsky at the Guggenheim, Tim Robbins at the Moma, Man Ray at the Jewish Museuem, David Hockny at Pace Wildenstein and many more. January is off to a good start with two simultaneous showings at the Laurence Miller Gallery next week.



Laurence Miller Gallery is exhibiting 15 color photographs by the forty-eight year old French photographer Denis Darzacq. HYPER refers to the new garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and contemporary backdrop for his pictures. Darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements. Darzacq's working methods are wonderfully captured in a documentary film by Marie-Clotilde Chery. The photographs explore the tension between being and having, between the human body and the built environment. They offer a fresh, witty and intensely colorful commentary on global consumerism and freedom of spirit.

20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor
new York, NY
REception Thursday, January 14 6-8pm




Featuring Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Philippe Halsman, Andre Kertesz,
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Helen Levitt, Ramon Masatas, Jerry Uelsmann, Garry Winogrand

Simultaneously being shown is "Body Language", a selection of twenty historic photographs that celebrate the language of forms created by the body in motion. Included are a mid-1970's Garry Winogrand of leaping cheerleaders, the classic 1926 Andre Kertesz "Satiric Dancer", two "divers" by Aaron Siskind from his series "The Terrors and Pleasures of Levitation", a Jerry Uelsmann nude floating over the sea (shown above), and Helen Levitt's wonderful view of two uninhibited children dancing in the street.

20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor
new York, NY
REception Thursday, January 14 6-8pm