Now back home, I’ve discovered that the big corporation for which I still work is facilitating personal donations through their corporate website, and MATCHING the individual donations $2 for each dollar donated. Other corporations are doing similar matching…so an individual donation made that way could go further than the individual dollar. So if you’ve got readers out there who work for corporations with matching giving programs, then gang, check your corporate giving website. You may be able to double (or triple) the amount you can give if you channel your donation through them.

My first impulse was to find a way to help with medical supplies, specifically ostomy supplies which often get forgotten. But since distribution of physical goods during disasters is an issue, money to a group that is bringing in supplies is a more helpful donation at this point than the actual physical supplies. New plan – donate the cost of a month of ostomy supplies.

Revision of new plan – since the company where I work makes drugs and ostomy supplies, has already shipped the first loaded airbus of supplies to Haiti and will be shipping more directly to those who CAN distribute them – I plan to donate that cost through their gift-match so that my drop-in-the-bucket can fund *three* months of ostomy supplies.

At this point, it’s going to be a direct donation for me, while I write posts asking straight out that my blog readers jump in. But I wanted to say ‘thanks’ for inspiring people to use the things we have – media – to help, to make a difference.