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3M Foundation will match up to $100,000
in 3M employee/retiree donations to American Red Cross or to CARE. 3M
Foundation has also staged and is delivering to Haiti up to $1M in
products through several NGO partners. |
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ADC Foundation has launched a two-fold
response: an employee matching gifts initiative (1:1 match of gifts to
any qualifying 501c3 that is providing relief services), and a corporate
donation (also via the foundation) of $10,000 to the American Red Cross
Haiti relief fund. |
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In response to the earthquake in Haiti,
Allianz Life will make a $25,000
donation to support disaster relief and rebuilding efforts. Our
corporate donation will be split equally between two organizations
committed to helping Haiti rebuild and establish itself for the future -
the American Red Cross International Response Fund (ARCIRF) and CARE
International.
Allianz Life will also match employee donations dollar for dollar up to
$25,000 to ARCIRF and CARE International. |
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Ameriprise Financial makes an annual
grant to the American Red Cross for disaster relief. The 2010 grant is
$125,000. In addition, the company has set up a special program to match
employee and field member donations to the American Red Cross Haiti
Relief and Development Fund up to $100,000. |
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The Andersen Corporate Foundation board
of directors voted last Friday to donate $50,000 to the American Red
Cross through its Central New Jersey chapter. The Central New Jersey
chapter was chosen because 11 percent of Silver Line Building Products,
an Andersen company, employees at its New Jersey plant are of Haitian
descent.
The Andersen Corporate Foundation has donated nearly a quarter of a
billion dollars over the past seven years alone to help in numerous
national and international disaster relief operations. |
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Aveda has identified an opportunity to
support sustainable rebuilding projects in Haiti through one of our
existing philanthropic programs. We will work with a current partner and
grantee of our Earth Month program, Global Greengrants Fund (GGF), to
support the Lambi Fund of Haiti's relief projects in both 2010 and 2011.
We are currently planning to give a total of $60,000 to the Lambi Fund
through GGF over the next two years. The Lambi Fund of Haiti is an
organization with an excellent reputation for sustainable development in
Haiti and they are dedicated to the recovery of Haitian communities
through projects such as:
- Repair of rainwater cisterns so
people will have a supply of safe drinking water.
- Planting the trees that are
critically needed to stabilize topsoil and prevent mudslides.
- Providing the seeds, tools and
equipment for earthquake refugees to expand organic and sustainable
agriculture, helping to both meet the increased demand for food and
increase development of community enterprises.
Aveda is also supporting earthquake
relief efforts through our Pure Privilege loyalty program. A special
reward was developed for guests interested in helping Haiti by redeeming
their loyalty points for a donation. Pure Privilege members are able to
redeem 1500 loyalty points for a $20 donation to Oxfam for earthquake
relief. The program will run through February.
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In response,
Best Buy is contributing $200,000 to
the International Federation of the Red Cross and Mercy Corps for the
relief efforts in Haiti. The contribution includes:
- $100,000 contribution to the
International Federation of the Red Cross for immediate response
efforts in Haiti
- $100,000 contribution to Mercy
Corps, a strategic Best Buy partner through the Clinton Global
Initiative and Best Buy Children's Foundation's for both immediate
and long-term infrastructure re-building (including technology) in
Haiti.
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
is contributing $10,000 in funds through the Blue Cross Foundation to
Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), located in Eagan, MN, that will help
purchase more than 55,000 meals for people in the devastated country.
Last week FMSC sent its first shipment of meals to Haiti, planned for
arrival this week. FMSC will package an additional 3 million meals and
the Blue Cross donation will purchase more than 55,000 of these meals.
The food sent by FMSC is developed to help malnourished children. We are
also providing volunteer opportunities for our employees to assemble
meals at the FMSC site here in Eagan, MN, where our corporate offices
are located. |
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The Buuck family has authorized a $5,000
grant from the Buuck Family Foundation to Doctors Without Borders to be
directed toward the Haiti relief effort. |
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Cargill
provided an immediate donation of $50,000 split between two of our
long-term partners, CARE and World Food Programme, both with significant
on-going operations in the Haiti.
Donations made by Cargill employees around the world to Red Cross, CARE
or WFP will be matched by Cargill as part of its Natural Disaster Relief
program.
In the Twin Cities, Cargill volunteers will package 50,000 meals in
January and February for the nonprofit Kids Against Hunger for delivery
to Haiti. (More
on Cargill's response...) |
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Carlson and the
Carlson Family Foundation will make a $50,000 grant to
the American Red Cross in support of the Haiti relief efforts.
Additionally, employee contributions to the American Red Cross will be
matched up to $60,000. |
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In the five weeks since the earthquake
devastated Haiti on January 12, the
Catholic Community Foundation has
granted $189,022 to 14 nonprofits engaged in or supporting relief
efforts. This outpouring of generosity was in part a response to the
Catholic Community Foundation’s Jan. 13 challenge to its board and
donors to raise $50,000 by January 29 for Sacred Heart Haiti Foundation.
That goal was exceeded by 21 percent when $63,416 was collected for the
Rochester, Minn.-based nonprofit.
The remaining $125,606 was distributed to the American Red Cross,
American Refugee Committee, the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and
Minneapolis’ Haiti Fund, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Central
Association of the Miraculous Medal, Church of the Annunciation’s
Mission Haiti Fund, Cross International, Friends of the Orphans, Hope
for Haiti, and World Vision International. (More
on the Catholic Community Foundation's response...) |
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The Central Minnesota Community Foundation
has established the Help for Haiti Fund to support relief efforts
underway in Haiti for the victims of the January 12th earthquake and has
provided the first donation to the fund. A total of $15,000 has been
committed from CMCF and its affiliate foundation, the Brainerd Lakes
Area Community Foundation. The Foundation will also work with other
local funders to generate donations.
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The
CHS Foundation will contribute a total
of $25,000 to CARE and American Red Cross International Disaster Relief
Fund in support of Haitian relief efforts. The foundation will also set
aside an additional $25,000 to match CHS employee contributions to these
designated organizations.
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Comcast Corporation has announced that it is providing over $1 million
in cash and in-kind support for disaster relief for earthquake victims
in Haiti, including cash contributions to the American Red Cross and
Télécoms Sans Frontières (Telecom without Borders). (More
on Comcast's response...) |
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Delta Dental made a $10,000
contribution to the American Red Cross for Haiti Relief efforts. |
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Deluxe Corporation Foundation has given
a $15,000 grant to the Red Cross to support the relief efforts in Haiti. |
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Ecolab said it will contribute $1.4
million of cleaning and sanitation products to help meet needs in Haiti,
including hand sanitizers and surface sanitizers. In addition to the
product donation, the Ecolab Foundation has offered a global matching
gift program, through which it will match all Ecolab associate
contributions to the Red Cross up to $1,000 per associate up to a total
of $35,000. (More
on Ecolab's response...) |
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The
H.B. Fuller Foundation has contributed
$50,000 for relief in Haiti, directed to Partners in Health (PIH), a
U.S.-based nonprofit that has been working on the ground in Haiti for
more than 20 years. PIH works to bring modern medical care to poor
communities, and is an international model in combating infectious
diseases in developing countries and in using volunteer medical
personnel to accomplish their work. |
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The General Mills Foundation will
provide $250,000 to support disaster relief and long-term rebuilding
efforts in Haiti. The Foundation will make a grant in the amount of
$100,000 to the American Red Cross International Disaster Relief Fund
and $150,000 to CARE International for long-term rebuilding efforts. The
Foundation will also provide a dollar-for-dollar match of employee
contributions for Haiti earthquake relief to the American Red Cross up
to $50,000. (More
on General Mills Foundation's response...) |
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GiveMN is responding to the disaster in
Haiti by encouraging everyone to visit
the site for information on several
national and local organizations which are supporting earthquake relief
efforts in Haiti.
Donors can chose from one of the featured organizations on the home page
or find one of hundreds of Haiti-related nonprofit organizations by
typing “Haiti” in the search box. GiveMN is the first-of-its-kind online
giving portal. It provides donors with information about organizations
that match their philanthropic goals. (More
on GiveMN's response...) |
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In an effort to keep Haiti's local media
from falling into a communication breakdown, the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has delivered a
$200,000 grant to keep the country's radio stations broadcasting key
information to survivors.
The grant was given to Internews, an international media development
group that has promised to assess the damage done to Haitian news
organizations and provide resources for them. (More
on the Knight Foundation's response...) |
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Lutheran Community Foundation is
directing donors to support Lutheran World Relief, who have partners on
the ground in Haiti. To learn more, visit the Foundation's
website. |
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The
Medica Foundation made a $5,000
grant to the American Red Cross. Medica employees and board members met
the challenge grant with an additional $9,192 donated to the American
Red Cross, Parish Twinning Programs of America and other designated
organizations. Total giving for Haiti relief efforts was $14,192.
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Medtronic, Inc. has announced that the company has donated
nearly $900,000 in medical devices and surgical supplies to help meet
urgent medical needs in Haiti. The company's response has surpassed $2.1
million for immediate and long-term relief efforts. (More
on Medtronic's response...) |
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The Minneapolis Foundation has posted a list on their website
of organizations conducting relief operations in Haiti. Interested
donors may recommend grants from their Donor Advised Funds to support
this work. |
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The Mortenson Family Foundation
and Mortenson Construction
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The Mortenson Family Foundation and Mortenson
Construction have made a $100,000 combined cash donation in
support of long-term recovery efforts. The cash donation - $50,000 from
The Mortenson Family Foundation and $50,000 from Mortenson Construction
- will be made to World Vision, Doctors Without Borders, and Friends of
the Orphans. In addition, with the support of Mortenson Company
suppliers, the company also donated more than $60,000 in materials to
aid in immediate recovery efforts. |
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The Mosaic Company is contributing
$500,000 for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. Mosaic’s $500,000
contribution will provide both immediate and long-term assistance,
supporting emergency medical services, triage and mobile communications.
Mosaic will contribute $125,000 to each of the following four
organizations: Canadian Red Cross, American Refugee Committee, American
Red Cross and International Red Cross.
The company also said it will match contributions for each of its 7,400
global employees to relief organizations working to rebuild Haiti. (More
on Mosaic's response...) |
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The Northland Foundation made a $5,000 grant to the American
Red Cross in support of their relief efforts in Haiti. (More
on Northland Foundation's response...) |
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With the reports of municipal water supplies
cut off in the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince following the
devastating earthquake in Haiti, the need for water is crucial.
Pentair, Inc.,
a global water solutions provider, in coordination with its
Foundation, is immediately donating $200,000 to fund portable
water treatment systems and related supplies to Haiti.
Working with the company’s charitable
partner, Water Missions International (WMI), Pentair is able to provide
10 Living Water Treatment Systems (LWTS) and five chlorinators. These
water systems can provide potable drinking water to approximately
100,000 total people daily. (More
on Pentair, Inc.'s response...) |
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Piper Jaffray will support Haiti
disaster relief with a special matching gift program. All contributions
to the American Red Cross & International Federation of the Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies will be matched 1:1 to the American Red Cross
International Relief Fund. The match will not be counted toward an
employee’s annual maximum for the standard matching gifts program.
Employee gifts will be matched up to $25,000 and we will continue to
monitor relief effort needs and employee responses. |
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The RBC Foundation - USA is the
charitable giving arm for RBC Wealth Management in the United States. As
a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), RBC Wealth
Management and the RBC Foundation - USA will match up to $500 for
employee contributions made to organizations providing disaster relief
and humanitarian aid through our Employee Gift Matching Program, in
addition to RBC's donation of $100,000 to Red Cross Haiti Earthquake
Relief Fund. |
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C.H. Robinson is matching 100% of employee gifts to the
American Red Cross and International Red Cross for Haiti relief efforts.
There's no cap on these matching funds.
It is also providing donated transportation and logistics services to a
wide variety of customers and humanitarian organizations – transporting
donated water, heavy equipment, food, construction supplies, etc. There
is no cap on this in-kind donation at this time either. |
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St. Jude Medical Foundation is matching
donations to Haiti relief organizations made by all employees worldwide
from the day of the earthquake through Feb. 15. Donations made to
international organizations will be matched to the American Red Cross. |
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In response to the 7.0-magnitude earthquake
that struck Haiti and devastated Port-au-Prince, the nation’s capitol,
Target
announced that it will donate $500,000 to support Haitian families
impacted by the disaster. The donation will be made to the American Red
Cross, which is providing desperately needed supplies and
disaster-management services to the area through its International
Response Fund.
In addition, Target Volunteers are working in partnership with students
from The Fair School in Minneapolis and ImpactLives, a local non-profit
organization, to prepare more than one million meals to send to Haitian
earthquake victims. (More
on Target's response...) |
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The Thomson Reuters Foundation has launched
a first-of-its kind, free disaster-information service for the people of
Haiti. The service allows survivors of Haiti's earthquake to receive
critical information by text message directly to their phones, free of
charge. (More
on Thomson Reuters' response...) |
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In less than one month,
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and
its members have contributed $3 million for earthquake response efforts
in Haiti. More than 12,000 Thrivent Financial members contributed to the
“Helping Haiti” effort, which provided a $1 Thrivent Financial
contribution to every $2 members gave to any of four Lutheran relief
agencies.
Thrivent Financial pledged to add up to $1 million to donations its
members made. As of today, Thrivent member contributions surpassed $2
million. This means the full Thrivent Financial pledge of $1 million has
been reached for a combined impact of $3 million toward helping Haiti.
Thrivent Financial members interested in making a financial gift to help
earthquake victims in Haiti can make their donation online at
www.thrivent.com/helpinghaiti |
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The Toro Company has made a $10,000
donation to the American Red Cross International Response Fund. In
addition Toro will match employee donations to the ARC International
Response Fund until March 1st. They will continue to monitor the need
for Toro product to assist in the clean up process. |
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The Travelers Companies, Inc. announced
that in response to the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti,
the Travelers Foundation is sending $50,000 to the American Red Cross to
assist relief efforts.
The Travelers Foundation also has created a special disaster relief
matching program so that Travelers employees may contribute between $25
and $500 to the Haitian earthquake relief efforts through the American
Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, International Rescue Committee, Save
the Children, UNICEF or the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and have their
contributions matched. (More
on Travelers' response...) |
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UnitedHealth Group donated
$100,000 to the American Red Cross International Response Fund, which
helps victims of countless crises around the world, including the recent
earthquake in Haiti. In addition, the company will match employee
contributions to charitable partner Global Impact, dollar for dollar up
to $100,000.
Also,
OptumHealth, UnitedHealth Group’s health and wellness
business, is providing a free emotional-support help line for people in
the United States that may have relatives or friends in Haiti. Staffed
by experienced behavioral health specialists, the help line offers
assistance to callers seeking help in dealing with stress, anxiety and
the grieving process. (More
on UnitedHealth Group response...) |
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United Way of
Olmsted County is promoting and providing links to the United
Way Worldwide Disaster Relief Fund for Haiti on its
webpage. |
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The U.S. Bancorp Foundation will donate
$100,000 to support the American Red Cross in its efforts to assist
victims of the earthquake that ravaged Haiti this past week.
U.S. Bank will also refund fees for
remittances to Haiti made by U.S. Bank retail customers from any U.S.
Bank branch. The fee-free money transfers will be available now through
February 28, 2010, to support relief efforts for victims of the
earthquake.
In addition, the U.S. Bancorp Foundation
has waived the minimum $50 contribution necessary for a match from the
Employee Matching Gifts program to encourage all employees to reach out
to the thousands of victims of this natural disaster. All employees are
eligible for the match. (More
on U.S. Bancorp Foundation's response...) |
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To help victims of the earthquake in
Haiti,
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is
contributing $100,000 to the American Red Cross disaster relief fund to
assist with recovery efforts. (More
on Wells Fargo's response...) |
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Xcel Energy is making a $50,000
contribution to the American Red Cross International Response Fund, and
also matching employee contributions to relief organizations of their
choice up to $750 per employee. |
