GiftsHaiti January 18, 2010 8:39PM
We met our Western Union Foundation challenge
Jacob Colie
Internet Marketing Director
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Over the holiday weekend, the Western Union Foundation gave us $50,000 to match donations to our Haiti Earthquake Fund. We finished the challenge on Martin Luther King Day. Thanks to everyone who gave through Twitter and helped us finish the match.
Haiti January 15, 2010 9:51AM
We met our Nike challenge!
Jacob Colie
Internet Marketing Director
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Yesterday, Nike generously offered us $25,000 to match donations to our Haiti Earthquake Fund. We met this match in record time — thanks to all who contributed!
Haiti January 14, 2010 10:21AM
Satellite images of the destruction
Jacob Colie
Internet Marketing Director
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Here are three satellite images that detail the scale of the destruction in Port-au-Prince. The images include the National Palace, Downtown Port-au-Prince and Sylvio Cator Stadium. The images reveal flattened buildings, high numbers of people in the streets and the gathering of the displaced in front of the National Palace and inside Sylvio Cator Stadium.
September 29, 2009 1:38PM
Video: Game playing for charity
Jacob Colie
Internet Marketing Director
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Can video games make the world a better place? It sure can. Learn more about how game playing and poverty alleviation connect in this video. When you're finished watching, head on over to GamesThatGive for your first game of Bubble Burst.
Uganda May 14, 2009 8:44AM
Photo of the Day
Jacob Colie
Internet Marketing Director
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Maybe it’s a five-page article in the New York Times or a three-minute clip on CNN. But sometimes, all it takes to remember why we’re doing this is a single photograph.
UGANDA. Over the past two decades, Uganda's civil war forced hundreds of thousands of families to flee their homes — at the height of the violence, more than 1.6 million people were displaced. With peace now on the horizon, many displaced people have moved to "transitional camps." Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
