Haiti Relief: How You Can Help

With the recent disastrous earthquakes striking Haiti, thousands of people are affected. Haiti and aid is reaching those who need it, more groups and nonprofit organizations are raising money for recovery as relief efforts continue. Be careful by scam artists and fake organizations. Here are some legit links to donate to.

•Music For Relief is offering a compilation of unreleased music, available for free download on MusicForRelief.org. The site encourages donations, which will be divided equally among the United Nations Foundation, Habitat For Humanity, and Dave Matthews Band’s BAMA Works Haitian relief program.

•Artists For Peace and Justice is a relatively new organization with an advisory board of prominent celebrity activists, including Maria Bello, Madeleine Stowe, Charlize Theron, Oliver Stone and Josh Brolin. Founded by filmmaker Paul Haggis, the group originally sought to help build functional schools in impoverished regions in Haiti. Since the earthquake, they’ve directed all of their funds to recovery efforts, with a focus on helping to rebuild schools, hospitals and orphanages. http://www.artistsforpeaceandjustice.com/

•National Nurses United already has 10,000 nurses volunteering to go to Haiti, but they need to raise money to send them there. Every dollar donated to NNU will be spent directly on sending a professional nurse to Haiti.

Thanks To Huffingtonpost.com for these links.