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 The
earthquake that hit central China on May 12 killed more
than 67,000 people and left thousands more missing,
injured, or homeless.
Donors Forum has gathered the resources
below to to aid donors in making the most effective
use of donations to the relief effort.
News
and Resources
Teaching
China How to Help Itself
from Forbes.com
China
'Quake Lake' Extremely Dangerous
Rockefeller
Philanthropy Advisors Establishes Fund for Chinese Earthquake
Survivors
Fact
Sheet on the China Earthquake
Estimates
provided by the Chinese government on May 22, 2008.
American
Charities Raise $32 Million for Asian Disasters
From The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
- Chinatown
Chamber of Commerce (Chicago) and the Chicago Chinese-American
Community Organize Sichuan Earthquake Relief
Individual and corporate donations are welcome through
relief fund accounts at any Chicago-area branches
of these banks: Citibank, Pacific Global Bank, Charter
One Bank, Lakeside Bank, and Fifth Third Bank. In
addition, Harris Bank will also have an account set
up shortly. Relief effort questions may be directed
to the Chinese American Service League at 312-791-0418
or to the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce 312-326-5320.
Chinese
People Donate $192 Million Toward Relief Effort
From The Washington Post, May 16, 2008
U.S.
Government Response
Transcript of the May 13 press briefing from the U.S.
State Department, outlining the intial U.S. government
response.
Network
For Good: China Earthquake Relief
Make an online donation to organizations
collecting contributions for the relief efforts.
- InterAction
Members Respond to the Earthquake in China
Find out how InterAction's
member organizations are responding to the crisis.
Red
Cross and Red Crescent Response to the China Earthquake
How to support these organizations' relief efforts.
FAQs
About Charitable Organizations Providing Disaster Relief
Fact sheet from the Internal Revenue Service
MercyCorps
Mercy Corps, through its local partner China Foundation
for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), is mounting an emergency
response for survivors.
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Giving Guides for Grantmakers
- Disaster
Grantmaking, A Practical Guide for Foundations and
Corporations
(pdf)
Advice from the
Council on Foundations for grantmakers who want to
aid disaster relief efforts.
- Interaction:
Guide to Appropriate Giving
Interaction, an alliance
of international development and humanitarian organizations,
explains what types of gifts will best help those
in need.
- Family
Matters: In Times of War and Disaster
(pdf)
Family Matters,
the Council on Foundation's journal for family
foundations, explores how foundations respond to war,
terrorism and natural disasters, as well as IRS rules
regarding assisting victims of disasters.
Power
Amidst Chaos: Foundation Support for Advocacy Related
to Diasters
This publication from Alliance for Justice recounts
the challenges to funding advocacy work after the devastating
hurricane season of 2005, including how grantmakers
successfully helped empower those affected, as well
as tips for funding and preparing for advocacy in response
to future disasters.
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Giving Tips
for Individual Donors
- IRS:
Disaster Relief - Providing Assistance Through Charitable
Organizations (pdf)
Helpful tips about charities and tax deductions for
people who want to make contributions to disaster
relief efforts.
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Grantmaking
Members' Responses to the Crisis in China
Arabella Philanthropic
Investment Advisors
Arabella Advisors has a Disaster Recovery Fund. Information
can be found at ArabellaAdvisors.com.
Baxter International
Foundation
Baxter China has committed approximately $630,000 in
IV solutions, therapies for renal patients, and critical
care nutrition products for donation to the Ministry
of Health and hospitals. That total will increase in
the days ahead as Baxter continues to work with AmeriCares
and other humanitarian aid partners. The company also
made a $25,000 cash donation to AmeriCares to offset
costs associated with providing aid. Additionally, The
Baxter International Foundation has approved a $350,000
contribution to be shared by the Red Cross Society of
China and Project Hope.
For employees who want to make contributions,
Baxter International has established an employee-giving
fund to benefit the Red Cross Society of China. The
Baxter International Foundation Employee Disaster Relief
Fund will match employee donations one-for-one. Baxter
China employees have been donating blood to help the
earthquake victims. Moreover, Baxter is proud that our
employees in Sichuan began helping hospitals and government
agencies in relief efforts (after reporting on their
own safety).
The Chicago
Tribune Foundation
The Chicago Tribune Company posts a list of disaster
relief nonprofits on its website for employees to select
and contribute to on their own. Within the daily articles
about the earthquake in China, The Chicago Tribune
prints a list of national and international nonprofits
that help with disaster relief.
CNA Foundation
With regard to the disasters in both China and Myanmar,
the CNA Foundation typically does not match contributions
to organizations that provide 25% or more of their services
outside the U.S. However, given the magnitude of these
events, the CNA Foundation has made an exception in
order to help the victims affected by these tragedies.The
CNA Foundation will match gifts made to qualified organizations
through June 30, 2008. Employees who want to provide
monetary support to the relief efforts can have their
contributions matched dollar for dollar for amounts
from $25 up to $5,000. Matching gift forms must be received
by June 30, 2008. All organizations receiving CNA Foundation
Matching Gift funds must be non-profit and certified
as tax-exempt under the Internal Revenue Service Code
Section 501(c )(3) or its equivalent.
Kraft
In response to the earthquake in China, Kraft Foods
is making a US $150,000 cash donation. Kraft China has
donated product valued at US $400,000.
Microsoft
- We at Microsoft are incredibly saddened
by the devastation caused by the earthquake in the
Sichuan province in China and our hearts go out to
the many people impacted by this tragedy.
- We have confirmed that all of our
staff in Chengdu, Chongqing and the rest of the country
are safe and accounted for. Our office is closed today
in Chengdu. We are advising our employees not to report
to the office but to stay in a safe location and attend
to personal matters. The Chengdu building suffered
some damage, and the communications infrastructure
in the area has been partially disrupted. We are in
contact with many of our employees through multiple
channels and are providing them with updates on regular
basis.
- Microsoft is committed to supporting
the relief and recovery efforts and is working with
humanitarian relief organizations to determine their
exact IT-related needs.
- Microsoft is taking a number
of immediate steps to help address this tragic situation:
- We are making an initial donation
of one million Chinese Yuan (approximately US
$125,000) to the Red Cross Society of China.
- Our China subsidiary is reaching
out to local response organizations to identify
areas where our technology and other support can
help.
- Through our partnership with
NetHope, the largest relief organizations are
using technology to prioritize relief efforts
and match available resources. By enabling communication,
collaboration and decision making, technology
can literally save thousands of lives.
- We will make use of our corporate
and local Chinese home pages for Microsoft.com
and MSN.com – visited by millions per day
– to connect the general public with how
they can donate to over 40 organizations that
are providing assistance on the ground.
- We have informed our 78,000
employees worldwide how they can help; Microsoft
will match contributions from our Chinese and
US-based employees.
- Where possible, we are proactively
reaching out to our small, medium and enterprise
customers in the impacted area to offer technical
support, free of charge, if assistance is needed
to get their technology solutions up and running
again.
- These efforts are part of
Microsoft’s long-standing commitment to disaster
response; we believe technology can play a vital role
in bringing desperately needed assistance to distressed
communities more rapidly and efficiently. Examples
of past assistance include:
- Enabling refugee registration
for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
- Integrating hardware, software,
and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and
displaying all forms of geographically referenced
information around disaster impact areas through
Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
- Multi-agency coordination and
decision making through Sharepoint portal based
applications.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
North America, Inc.
Takeda contributed $50,000 to the American Red Cross
International Response Fund for support of their efforts
in China and Myanmar. Takeda encourages employees to
make personal donations as well, and will match those
donations dollar for dollar per its usual matching gifts
program.
Underwriters
Laboratories
Underwriters Laboratories is committed to matching employee
contributions to the China earthquake disaster relief
efforts, dollar for dollar, for all donations through
GlobalGiving. The company is also matching employee
donations to the Red Cross Society of China that were
collected locally at a number of their offices in Asia.
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China
Earthquake Relief Resource Center