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Gear Live & Friends will match your Haiti SMS donations
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The Short Version: If you donate to Haiti relief by SMS by texting “HAITI” to the number 90999, or by texting “YELE” to 501501, we will match your donation multiple times. Just leave a comment telling us how much you donated, and we will take care of the rest. We are currently matching donations 14 times.
Over the past couple of days, while trying to carry on with “business as usual,” I’ve personally found it hard to focus on tech, gadgets, and all of the CES 2010 goodness that we have yet to bring you, as the world is focused on the disastrous aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. We’re sure you’ve seen the imagery, but if you haven’t, or if you aren’t quite sure, I encourage you to watch this AP report:
Gear Live & Friends Will Match Your Haiti SMS Donations!
We felt it was time to do our part to help, so with the support of a bunch of Gear Live friends, we are announcing that we will match SMS donations made by Gear Live readers and viewers. As many of you know, the Red Cross has made it super-simple to donate $10 to help out by simply texting the word HAITI to 90999. In fact, this has been so successful that it’s already earned $11 million in just a few days. That is fantastic - but the damage to the country is far greater than that, and every little bit helps. So here’s what we’re gonna do:
Starting now, if you send an SMS donation to either the Red Cross (by texting the word HAITI to 90999) or to YELE (by texting the word YELE to 501501) Gear Live will match it, up to $500. In addition, we have a bunch of our friends joining in as well:
- David Geller of Eyejot and WhatCounts will match up to $2500
- Leslie Camacho, President of EllisLab (which makes the fantastic ExpressionEngine CMS) and Roger Rustad (wondering network guru) will personally match up to
$600$1200 - Nate True of Tap Tap Revenge and iPhone hacking fame will match up to $500
- Jeremy, Adam, and the team at Stage Two will match up to $500
- Dave Taylor, the man behind AskDaveTaylor.com, will match up to $250
- Don McAllister of Screencasts Online will match up to $250
- Robert Scoble, the face behind Building43, will match up to $200
- Local Gear Live fan Shauna Causey will match up to $100
- Parnassus Ventures, the folks behind 140: The Twitter Conference, will match up to $100
- Jason Neudecker, a Gear Live Twitter follower, will match up to $100
- Hadley Stern and Apple Matters will match up to $100
- Xavier Lanier and Notebooks.com will match up to $100
- Amisha Gandhi-Lanier and Served Raw will match up to $100
- Kevin Urie from Social Media Club Seattle will match up to $100
- TechieDiva.com will match up to $50
- Eric Siegfriend and DanceHop will match up to $50
In total, so far, that’s $4500 $5400 $5650 $6550 $6700 in pledged matching donations! For each donation you make, each entity above will match it, until their limit is reached. In other words, with our current eight eleven twelve contributors, your $10 donation will actually be matched six nine eleven twelve fifteen seventeen times, resulting in a $70 $100 $120 $130 $160 $180 payment. So, what do you need to do? This is the easy part. Just scroll down and leave us a comment letting us know that you made a donation, and whether it was a $5 or $10 contribution. If you do it multiple times, let us know that too. Even better, if you want to be on our list as a person or company that will match donations, let us know!
Now, what if you don’t have any money to donate? We will make it easy. Just comment with a link to an article on from any of the following websites that you found interesting or helpful, and we will donate $10 on your behalf:
Gear Live, Notebooks.com, AskDaveTaylor.com, Gear Diary, Mobility Minded, Technologizer, WindowsPhoneThoughts, Served Raw, SlashGear, or GeekRoom.
I have to give a big thank you to my pal Xavier over at Notebooks.com. He came up with the idea and invited me to donate. I then asked a few friends, and never thought we’d get the support that we did, so we kicked off our own campaign. Together with Notebooks.com, we have $10,500 $11,400 $11,650 $12,550 $12,700 in matching donations for your SMS contributions!
The time is now! Leave a comment after donating, tell your friends, forward this around, and share this on Facebook and Twitter using the buttons at the top of the article. Make us spend every penny of the matching funds that are available.
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One $10 Red Cross donation made.
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Another ten dollar donation made! Alex Lifschitz knows where to send people to do some good!
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Texted $5 donation to yele . Thank you for what you jave done!
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Donated twice to Red Cross. $20 dollars total. What another great way to get involved =)
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$10 to Red Cross via 90999 Haiti.
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Two donations made to 90999/Red Cross. Thanks Andru this is incredible.
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This is such a phenomenal idea - thank you for getting this together Andru!! Did the text message $10 donation to Red Cross. Awesome to know it’s getting matched!
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$10 donation to Red Cross. Thanks for what your doing!
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Just donated $10 to Red Cross, and am spreading the word to others about what you all are doing. Thank you!
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$10 donation made.
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to the Red Cross.
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For anyone who wants to share / email this info - the URL for the story on gearlive is http://www.gearlive.com/news/article/q110-gear-live-friends-will-match-your-haiti-sms-donations/ The tiny link (good for twitter) is http://bit.ly/4V387k
Spread the word!
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Additional $20 (2x$10) texted to Red Cross. Thank you!
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Hey Andru, Made another SMS donation to the Red Cross. Wife did the same. Thx for organizing this match!
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Donated my $10 to Red Cross via 90999. Thanks for doing this!
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$10 text to Red Cross; thank you for your donations, everyone!
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Thank you for matching! I sent SMS to red cross.
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$10 to red cross, thanks for matching!
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I donated 10 dollars to the red cross yesterday. Great work guys!
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One $10 donation to the Red Cross. Cheers for this, you’re all fantastic!
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I donated $5 through the YELE text.
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I sent one text to YELE.
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$10 to the Red Cross here!
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$10 to Red Cross. Thanks to all the contributors for matching!
http://www.gearlive.com/
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I guess I’m technically not a Gear Live reader, as I’ve never been to this site until I googled my way here looking for more info on these SMS donations…
...but I promise to become one if you’ll match the $10 donation I just made to Red Cross!
Thanks!
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Donated $10 to Red Cross.
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$20 donation to Red Cross! This is a great idea!
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I just donated $250 to Worldvision for the Haiti cause.
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I donated $10 to the Red Cross today for Haiti
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$100 to the Red Cross.
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$10 to Red Cross and $5 to Yele
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$100 donation to Red Cross
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one sms text to 90999. $10 contribution to the effort. thanks for matching. lets help. they are suffering.
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Donated $100. Thanks for matching it! What a great idea. I spread the word on facebook.
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I have donated $10 ten times for a total of $100. Thanks for all that you are doing. I am a new fan of Gear Live!
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I donated $10 to Red Cross via text message.
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just donated $10 also! Thanks for matching!!
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I donated $125 to the US Red Cross’s Haitian Relief Fund.
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I donated $10 to the Red Cross via text message.
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$10 donation made to the Red Cross
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Donated $50 to Red Cross.
Thanks so much for doing this.
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Donated $110 to Red Cross. God bless you for doing this!
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$10 made to 90999.
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this is AMAZING - I have donated $25.00 to the relief effort and thank you to everyone who has matched that donation!
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I’ve donated $35 to Red Cross. Excellent idea!
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$10 to 90999
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This sounds too good to be true. Will you match any donations or does it have to be text donation? It’s just that the text donations are only available in the US.
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Sent $10 to Red Cross 90999.
Thanks for this!
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Just sent £43 which is 69.3074 U.S. dollars. Thanks Gear Live and everyone who’s matching donations.
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What a brilliant idea! I went ahead and made a $10 donation by sending a text to 90999. Thank you so much for the generous and kind hearted people that are matching.
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