Please Consider Supporting Relief Efforts in Haiti

We have all been following the devastating impact of the major earthquake that recently struck Haiti, especially its capital city, killing tens of thousands of men, women and children, and injuring and displacing hundreds of thousands of others. In the short term, many victims are in dire need of medicine, clean water, food, and temporary shelter. In the long term, recovery and reconstruction will be major challenges. While I know many of our Fellows and Members are already directly involved in this effort, the NYAM Community would like to add our voice to encourage you to support important human relief and rebuilding efforts in Haiti in whatever way you feel you can, by donating funds or contributing your time and expertise to existing organizations that are already on the ground in the country. For a complete list of credible charities providing comprehensive relief in Haiti, please visit the New York State Office of the Attorney General at http://www.charitiesnys.com/haiti_new.html. In addition several NYAM Fellows, former honorees and associates are formally involved in the following organizations that are active in the relief efforts and we bring them to your attention with expedited links.

If you would like to bring an organization with which you are associated to the attention of your colleagues, please contact Andrew Martin, amartin@nyam.org and we will post the information along with your name as reference on this segment of our website. Shortly, we will be reaching out again to the NYAM community to identify individuals with direct experience or current program affiliations who are interested in helping us identify how NYAM may be most helpful in addressing the medium and long term priorities for the relief and rebuilding effort both in Haiti and with our own Haitian community in New York.

Jo Ivey Boufford
President
NYAM

The American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/

Doctors without Borders/ M??decins Sans Fronti??res
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/index.cfm

Partners in Health
https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake?source=sourcegoogle&subsource=subsourcePartners%20in%20Health

International Rescue Committee
http://www.theirc.org/

Posted on January 22, 2010

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