Digital Fundraising Booms For Haiti Relief

It seems that a recent digital fundraising drive for Haiti relief has stunned organizers at the Red Cross and White House. As of the last tally on Friday the campaign was at well over $8 million. "Earlier Thursday, when the Red Cross topped $3 million in text and social media donations — it hit nearly $40 million from all sources by late Thursday — spokesman Jonathan Aiken described it as 'a phenomenal number that's never been achieved before. People text up to three times at 10 bucks a pop,' Aiken said. 'You're talking about roughly 300,000 people actually spontaneously deciding, "I can spare $10 for this." And that's remarkable.' As of late Thursday, more than half of all donations to the Red Cross's Haiti relief effort had been received online, according to a news release.

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People rule

[mmklein]

So does one local company here in Vermont - Small Dog Electronics. They matched donations, up to $200, and will be sending over $20,000 to Doctors Without Borders in the next few days! They're good people too! www.smalldog.com

And how many won't give?

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't this money be collected by the government through taxes instead? It would be more efficiently spent and everyone that can give would be made to give. Wouldn't that be more fair?

Re:Apparently I donated 24 times last year

[royallthefourth]

I don't know about this past decade, but most of the "aid" money sent to Haiti by the United States (and probably also France) in the last century was propping up a US-installed military dictatorship. Don't believe anything Limbaugh says about foreign aid; he is consistently factually wrong and he is also human trash.