[Buddha-l] Haiti relief Médecins sans frontières

[Roger60]

In the USA the French organisation "Médecins sans frontières" is called
"Doctors without borders USA" and the website is :
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

while their Haiti donation page is at :

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197&hbc=1&source=A
DR1001E1D01

Hope this can help someone !
Tashi delegs,
Thubten Wangchuk aka
Roger Garin-Michaud
Still in sunny Brisbane


-----Original Message-----
From: buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com
[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Richard Hayes
Sent: vendredi 15 janvier 2010 07:24
To: Buddhist discussion forum
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Haiti relief [was: Stupid old man...]

On Jan 14, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Joanna Kirkpatrick wrote:

> Another donaton destination worthy of your help is
> Medecins sans Frontieres.....who are already in Haiti right now,
> unlike
> some of the other organizations who've not been able to get there
> on the 
> ground as yet.  http://www.msf.org/

I'm glad you put that one forward. I was looking for them, because they are
such an obvious choice, but could only find a very complicated URL for their
Haiti relief site. 

Another web page that has a list of organizations of varying
persuasions---some religious, some political, some simply humanitarian---is
http://www.interaction.org/crisis-list/earthquake-haiti

In this, as in all things, it is not a bad idea to be informed. You can
check out how much of your donation actually goes to the cause you are
hoping to support. One place to do that is http://www.charitynavigator.org/
That site cannot provide information on some religious charities such as
AFSC and the Slavation Army, however, because, as the site explains, "Many
religious organizations are exempt under Internal Revenue Code from filing
the Form 990. As a result, we lack sufficient data to evaluate their
financial health." For example, they have nothing on Vodouid.org.

Despite there being many religious organizations that are not rated by
Charity Navigator, many are. I found nearly 300 Jewish charitable
organizations rated (compared to a bit less that 700 Christian charities, 8
Muslims charities and 1 Buddhist charity). Alas, among the least efficient
charities is the Quaker lobby group called Friends Committee for National
Legislation. Most money contributed to them gets sucked up by adminsitrative
costs; I reckon they have a hefty oatmeal bill.






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