Re: [tlug] Thoughts and prayers from America

[Pier Fumagalli <pier@example.com>]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 15:54, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
> Stephen (or anyone else in the know), where would donations do the
> most good? I know there are countless NGOs mobilising, but it is hard
> to know which ones are performing the most critical functions.

We (work, Gilt) have organized of couple of charity funding events on
the web, one in the US (see http://www.globalgiving.org/giltcity/) and
one in Japan (see http://www.giltcity.jp/tokyo/earthquake2011mar).

In Japan we'll be directly donating all the money we collect to the
Red Cross, and we'll match yen-by-yen all contributions from members
(you donate 500 yen, Gilt will match it with an extra 500 yen, Red
Cross will get 1000 yen).

Groupon Japan is doing the same (including the matching, see
http://groupon.jp/) and a lot of other retailers are collecting funds
on line.

    Pier