Fund Established to Assist Haiti Earthquake Recovery Efforts
January 13, 2010 – The Oklahoma City Community Foundation has created the Haiti Earthquake Assistance Fund that allows individuals, families, businesses or fundraising activities to make a charitable gift to assist the long-term recovery efforts in the Caribbean country’s capital city of Port-Au-Prince that was hit by a 7.0 earthquake on January 12. The Oklahoma City Community Foundation will direct 100 percent of these gifts to the appropriate aid agencies.
Contributions to the Haiti Earthquake Assistance Fund can be using a major credit card via our online giving service at www.occf.org/onlinegiving. Charitable gifts can also be made in cash, check or marketable securities to the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1146, Oklahoma City, OK 73102-1146. For more information on making a gift to the Haiti Earthquake Assistance Fund, please contact Jennifer Stewart at 405/606-2912 or j.stewart@occf.org.
“Many local donors may want to contribute to help in the recovery efforts but are unsure about making contributions to international agencies or even know what the most effective way to support recovery efforts,” says Nancy B. Anthony, executive director. “As we did with the Asian tsunami disaster in 2004, we will work with the Council on Foundations and its international grant-making program to identify the intermediate and long-term needs where these charitable dollars can have the most impact.”
In 2005, the Oklahoma City Community Foundation created the Oklahoma Tsunami Recovery Fund to assist the survivors of the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami in south Asia that produced mass destruction and hundreds of thousands of victims. Several hundred donors made charitable gifts totaling $35,000. All of the money was directed to several programs that focused on providing education and healthcare to orphans and children. Read more here.
For more information on the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, please visit www.occf.org.
