• Action Against Hunger, 877-777-1420
  • Agape Flights, 941-584-8078
  • American Red Cross, 800-733-2767
  • American Refugee Committee, 800-875-7060
  • American Jewish World Service, 212-792-2900
  • AmeriCares, 800-486-4357
  • Beyond Borders, 866-424-8403
  • B’nai B’rith International, 202-857-6600
  • CARE, 800-521-2273
  • Catholic Relief Services, 800-736-3467
  • Childcare Worldwide, 800-553-2328
  • Church World Services, 800-297-1516
  • Concern Worldwide, 212-557-8000
  • Convoy of Hope, 417-823-8998
  • Cross International, 800-391-8545
  • CRUDEM Foundation, 413-642-0450
  • CRWRC, 800-55-CRWRC
  • Direct Relief International, 805-964-4767
  • Doctors Without Borders, 888-392-0392
  • Episcopal Relief and Development, 800-334-7626
  • Feed My Starving Children, 763-504-2919
  • Food for the Poor, 800-427-9104
  • Friends of WFP, 866-929-1694
  • Friends of the Orphans, 312-386-7499
  • Habitat for Humanity, 1-800-422-4828
  • Haiti Children, 877-424-8454
  • Haiti Foundation Against Poverty
  • Haiti Marycare, 203-675-4770
  • Haitian Health Foundation, 860-886-4357
  • Healing Hands for Haiti, 651-769-5846
  • Hope for Haiti, 239-434-7183
  • International Child Care, 800-722-4453
  • International Medical Corps, 800-481-4462
  • International Rescue Committee, 877-733-8433
  • International Relief Teams, 619-284-7979
  • Islamic Relief USA, 888-479-4968
  • Lions Club International Foundation, 630-203-3836
  • Lutheran World Relief, 800-597-5972
  • Medical Benevolence Foundation, 800-547-7627
  • Medical Teams International, 800-959-4325
  • Meds and Food for Kids, 314-420-1634
  • Mennonite Central Committee, 888-563-4676
  • Mercy Corps, 888-256-1900
  • Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, 800-306-9950
  • New Life for Haiti, 815-436-7633
  • Operation Blessing, 800-730-2537
  • Operation USA, 800-678-7255
  • Oxfam, 800-776-9326
  • Partners in Health, 617-432-5298
  • RHEMA International, 248-652-9894
  • Rural Haiti Project, 347-405-5552
  • The Salvation Army, 800-725-2769
  • Samaritan’s Purse, 828-262-1980
  • Save the Children, 800-728-3843
  • UN Central Emergency Response Fund
  • UNICEF, 800-367-5437
  • United Methodist Committee on Relief, 800-554-8583
  • World Concern, 800-755-5022
  • World Hope International, 888-466-4673
  • World Relief, 800-535-5433
  • World Vision, 888-511-6548
  • Yele Haiti, 212-352-0552

The U.S. State Department Operations Center said Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti should call 1-888-407-4747. 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.”

For those interesting in helping immediately, simply text “HAITI” to “90999″ and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill. Or you can text Yele to 501 501 to donate $5 via your cellphone

Some of the major credit card companies, including American Express and Mastercard are waiving their usual fees so that the full amount of donation will go to the relief organization (typically, a small percentage is charged to the organization accepting the credit card).

An analysis by the Huffington Post found that credit card companies make about $250 million a year off of people’s charitable donations.

Finally, the FBI urges people who are looking for ways to help with earthquake relief to be wary of solicitations that could be from scam artists.

“Past tragedies and natural disasters have prompted individuals with criminal intent to solicit contributions purportedly for a charitable organization or a good cause,” the FBI said, in passing along these tips:

Ignore unsolicited e-mails, and do not click on links within those messages.

Be skeptical of individuals representing themselves as surviving victims or officials asking for donations via e-mail or social networking sites.

Be cautious of e-mails that claim to show pictures of the disaster areas in attached files, because the files may contain computer viruses. Open attachments only from know senders.

Decline to give personal or financial information to anyone who solicits contributions.

Make contributions directly to known organizations, rather than relying on others who claim in e-mails that they will channel the donation to established groups.

The FBI says anyone receipting an e-mail that appears to be a scam should forward it to this Web site: www.ic3.gov

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