A List of Char­i­ties Includ­ing How to Text the Red Cross and Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation

(CBS) Want to Help the earth­quake Vic­tims in Haiti?

Seek­ing Infor­ma­tion on Fam­ily Mem­bers in Haiti
The U.S. State Depart­ment says Amer­i­cans seek­ing infor­ma­tion about fam­ily mem­bers in Haiti should call 1–888-407‑4747 or or 202–647-5225.

Due to heavy vol­ume, some callers may receive a record­ing. “Our embassy is still in the early stages of con­tact­ing Amer­i­can cit­i­zens through our War­den Net­work,” the U.S. State Depart­ment said in a state­ment. “Com­mu­ni­ca­tions are very dif­fi­cult within Haiti at this time.”

The FBI is cau­tion­ing Amer­i­cans who want to donate to Haiti relief funds to be care­ful. If past tragedies are any indi­ca­tion, not all of them are legitimate.

Text Dona­tions
To make an auto­matic $10 dona­tion to the Red Cross, text “HAITI” to 90999; the money will be charged directly to your cell phone bill.

To donate $5 via your cell­phone to Wyclef Jean’s grass­roots orga­ni­za­tion: text “Yele” to 501501.

Spe­cial Report: Haiti Earthquake

A vic­tim of the quake in Port-au-Prince, searches for other sur­vivors on Tues­day, Jan. 12, 2010 after the largest earth­quake ever recorded in Haiti. (Daniel Morel)

Char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tions that offer aid to Haiti:
• Amer­i­can Red Cross: Since its found­ing in 1881 by vision­ary leader Clara Bar­ton, the Amer­i­can Red Cross has been the nation’s pre­mier emer­gency response organization.

• Sal­va­tion Army: an inter­na­tional move­ment, is an evan­gel­i­cal part of the uni­ver­sal Chris­t­ian Church. Its mes­sage is based on the Bible. Its min­istry is moti­vated by the love of God. Its mis­sion is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name with­out discrimination.

• Action Against Hunger: Named for the orig­i­nal mem­ber of the Inter­na­tional Net­work, Action con­tre la Faim, or ACF, the ACF Inter­na­tional Net­work shares an over­all vision of a world with­out hunger, col­lab­o­rat­ing closely and shar­ing human resources, logis­tics, and tech­ni­cal capacity.

• Ameri­Cares: a non­profit dis­as­ter relief and human­i­tar­ian aid orga­ni­za­tion which pro­vides imme­di­ate response to emer­gency med­ical needs — and sup­ports long-term human­i­tar­ian assis­tance pro­grams — for all peo­ple around the world, irre­spec­tive of race, creed or polit­i­cal persuasion.

• Amer­i­can Jew­ish World Ser­vice: Amer­i­can Jew­ish World Ser­vice (AJWS) is an inter­na­tional devel­op­ment orga­ni­za­tion moti­vated by Judaism’s imper­a­tive to pur­sue jus­tice. AJWS is ded­i­cated to alle­vi­at­ing poverty, hunger and dis­ease among the peo­ple of the devel­op­ing world regard­less of race, reli­gion or nation­al­ity. AJWS fos­ters civil soci­ety, sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and human rights for all peo­ple, while pro­mot­ing the val­ues and respon­si­bil­i­ties of global cit­i­zen­ship within the Jew­ish community.

• Beyond Bor­ders: Beyond Bor­ders is a reg­is­tered tax-exempt (501c3) non-profit orga­ni­za­tion. All con­tri­bu­tions are tax-deductible. We are cer­ti­fied by the state of Penn­syl­va­nia as a char­i­ta­ble organization.

• CARE: CARE is a lead­ing human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tion fight­ing global poverty.

• Catholic Relief Ser­vices: Help CRS rush human­i­tar­ian relief to sur­vivors within hours of man-made and nat­ural dis­as­ters around the world.

• ConcernUSA.org: a non-governmental, inter­na­tional, human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to the reduc­tion of suf­fer­ing and work­ing towards the ulti­mate elim­i­na­tion of extreme poverty in the world’s poor­est countries.

• Child­care World­wide: At Child­care World­wide, our unique pro­grams not only help feed hun­gry chil­dren and their fam­i­lies, they also help chil­dren receive an edu­ca­tion that leads to employ­ment. Our goal is to help chil­dren sur­vive and succeed.

• Direct Relief Inter­na­tional: Since 1948, Direct Relief Inter­na­tional has worked to help peo­ple who con­front enor­mous hard­ship to improve the qual­ity of their lives.

• Doc­tors With­out Bor­ders: Doc­tors With­out Bor­ders pro­vides aid in nearly 60 coun­tries to peo­ple whose sur­vival is threat­ened by vio­lence, neglect, or cat­a­stro­phe, pri­mar­ily due to armed con­flict, epi­demics, mal­nu­tri­tion, exclu­sion from health care, or nat­ural disasters.

• Epis­co­pal Relief & Devel­op­ment : In the after­math of a 7.0-magnitude earth­quake, Epis­co­pal Relief & Devel­op­ment is pro­vid­ing crit­i­cal emer­gency funds to Haiti.

• Food for the Poor: Food For The Poor min­is­ters to spir­i­tu­ally renew impov­er­ished peo­ple through­out Latin Amer­ica and the Caribbean. Food For The Poor raises funds and pro­vides direct relief assis­tance to the poor, usu­ally by pur­chas­ing specif­i­cally requested mate­ri­als and dis­trib­ut­ing them through the churches and char­ity orga­ni­za­tions already oper­at­ing in areas of need.

• Feed My Starv­ing Chil­dren: Feed My Starv­ing Chil­dren is a non-profit Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion com­mit­ted to feed­ing God’s starv­ing chil­dren hun­gry in body and spirit.

• Friends of WFP : Friends of WFP is a U.S.-based, non­profit, non­par­ti­san orga­ni­za­tion that focuses on build­ing sup­port in the United States for the United Nations World Food Pro­gram (WFP) and other hunger relief operations.

• Hait­ian Health Foun­da­tion: The Hait­ian Health Foun­da­tion pro­vides health care, devel­op­ment, relief, and the hope of a future to more than 225,000 of the poor­est peo­ple in over 100 rural moun­tain vil­lages in south­west­ern Haiti.

• Hope for Haiti: Hope for Haiti has held the vision from the very begin­ning that the peo­ple of Haiti are the ones who take con­trol of their future and we are here to lend a needed hand along the dif­fi­cult path.

• Inter­na­tional Med­ical Corps: Inter­na­tional Med­ical Corps is a global, human­i­tar­ian, non­profit orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to sav­ing lives and reliev­ing suf­fer­ing through health care train­ing and relief and devel­op­ment programs.

• Inter­na­tional Relief Teams: Inter­na­tional Relief Teams is a non­profit, inter­na­tional relief orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to orga­niz­ing vol­un­teer teams to pro­vide med­ical and non-medical assis­tance to the vic­tims of dis­as­ter and pro­found poverty worldwide.

• The Jew­ish Fed­er­a­tions of North Amer­ica : The Jew­ish Fed­er­a­tions of North Amer­ica rep­re­sents 157 Jew­ish Fed­er­a­tions and 400 Net­work com­mu­ni­ties, which raise and dis­trib­ute more than $3 bil­lion annu­ally for social wel­fare, social ser­vices and edu­ca­tional needs.

• Lutheran World Relief : Lutheran World Relief is respond­ing to the affected com­mu­ni­ties through its part­ners on the ground in Haiti. LWR antic­i­pates a large response. Every dol­lar donated to this life-saving effort is crit­i­cal to pro­vid­ing the nec­es­sary emer­gency sup­port to the peo­ple of Haiti.

• Med­ical Teams Inter­na­tional: Since 1979, Med­ical Teams Inter­na­tional has shipped more than $1.3 bil­lion in antibi­otics, sur­gi­cal kits and
life­sav­ing med­i­cines to care for 35 mil­lion peo­ple in 100 coun­tries around the world. More than 2000 vol­un­teers meet the needs of peo­ple world­wide each year.

• Meds and Food for Kids: Meds & Food for Kids is ded­i­cated to sav­ing the lives of Haiti’s mal­nour­ished chil­dren and other nutri­tion­ally vul­ner­a­ble people.

• Mercy Corps: Mercy Corps is a team of 3,700 pro­fes­sion­als help­ing turn cri­sis into oppor­tu­nity for mil­lions around the world. By trade, we are engi­neers, finan­cial ana­lysts, dri­vers, com­mu­nity orga­niz­ers, project man­agers, pub­lic health experts, admin­is­tra­tors, social entre­pre­neurs and logis­ti­cians. In spirit, we are activists, opti­mists, inno­va­tors and proud part­ners of the peo­ple we serve.

• Oper­a­tion Bless­ing Inter­na­tional: Oper­a­tion Bless­ing Inter­na­tional Relief and Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (OBI) is a non­profit 501 ©(3) human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tion based in Vir­ginia Beach, Vir­ginia, USA.

• Oxfam: Oxfam Inter­na­tional is a con­fed­er­a­tion of 14 like-minded orga­ni­za­tions work­ing together and with part­ners and allies around the world to bring about last­ing change.

• Oper­a­tion USA: Oper­a­tion USA helps com­mu­ni­ties alle­vi­ate the effects of dis­as­ters, dis­ease and endemic poverty through­out the world by pro­vid­ing privately-funded relief, recon­struc­tion and devel­op­ment aid.

• Part­ners in Health: Our mis­sion is to pro­vide a pref­er­en­tial option for the poor in health care.

• Samaritan’s Purse: Samaritan’s Purse is a non­de­nom­i­na­tional evan­gel­i­cal Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion pro­vid­ing spir­i­tual and phys­i­cal aid to hurt­ing peo­ple around the world.

• Save the Chil­dren: Save the Chil­dren is the lead­ing inde­pen­dent orga­ni­za­tion cre­at­ing last­ing change in the lives of chil­dren in need in the United States and around the world.

• UN Cen­tral Emer­gency Response Fund (CERF) : Human­i­tar­ian fund estab­lished by the United Nations to enable more timely and reli­able human­i­tar­ian assis­tance to areas affected by nat­ural dis­as­ters. CERF will assure that the funds for the relief effort in Haiti will go where they are most needed in the net­work of inter­na­tional aid organizations.

• UNICEF: UNICEF is man­dated by the United Nations Gen­eral Assem­bly to advo­cate for the pro­tec­tion of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their oppor­tu­ni­ties to reach their full potential.

• World Con­cern: World Con­cern works in 24 of the poor­est coun­tries on Earth, giv­ing hope and oppor­tu­ni­ties to vul­ner­a­ble peo­ple in great need.

• World Vision: World Vision helps trans­form the lives of the world’s poor­est chil­dren and fam­i­lies in nearly 100 coun­tries, includ­ing the United States. Our non-profit work extends assis­tance to all peo­ple, regard­less of their reli­gious beliefs, gen­der, race, or eth­nic background.

• Yele Haiti: Yéle Haiti is a Wyclef Jean’s grass­roots move­ment that builds global aware­ness for Haiti while help­ing to trans­form the coun­try through pro­grams in edu­ca­tion, sports, the arts and envi­ron­ment.

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