everything but the girl

From this evening's news post:

We want to acknowledge all of the amazing work you've been doing to support relief efforts in Haiti. We've already raised over $3,300 from the sale of our Haiti vgift!

We were so inspired by your compassion that we've decided to run a two-day charitable vgift drive. Beginning next week, from Thursday, January 28th, 4pm, through Saturday, January 30th, 3:59pm, PST, we'll donate 100 percent of the proceeds from all vgift sales to CARE and UNICEF (we'll cover the credit card processing fees). And, remember, for each $10 you receive in vgifts during a two-week period, you'll get two months of paid account time. For more info, read this FAQ.

And yes, they give a lovely shout-out to help_haiti, so thank you, LJ.

And, um, maybe this will impact the timing of the next Lightning Round? Off to ponder while I watch SHOW OMG SHOW IS ON TONIGHT IN ABOUT AN HOUR SQUEE!

Now that things are wrapping up for the first round of help_haiti, there are ways for fandomers to keep giving and helping.

Auction is closing in just over 40 minutes.

Last chance to bid in this round - but a new round will be coming up later this month...

Community maintenance is time-consuming! But it's all for good!

I finally had a minute to add my own Offering thread:



You can see things I've created at: my YouTube channel; most are also at pear_vodka

I am offering: One vid to the song of your choice

Fandoms: Harry Potter, Merlin, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Supernatural, Heroes, Dark Angel, Leverage, White Collar, Studio 60, John Hughes Movies of the 80s, Star Wars, Chuck and crossovers amongst any of these

Additional Info: Please be prepared to provide at least three songs by at least two different artists. I am willing/able to wait until the end of this tv season to do a vid, at your request.

Starting Bid: $10

Thanks again to everyone who's done so much for the comm! You're all amazing and wonderful and thank you! Check out the amazing icons and banners, too!

And if anyone has the time to figure out how much has been donated (approx) in the Lightning Round, I'd be very curious to know...

Off to go glare about the trolls who are making things complicated for Dreamwidth and squee at the cleverness of everyone who participated in Festivids (gah, wish I'd had time to participate!).

And given that it's More Joy! day, please note that the Doomsday Clock has been turned back a minute! Yay!

help_haiti

All three Doctors Without Borders locations. The air traffic control system. United Nations buildings. Homes. The presidential palace and government buildings and schools; the closest you can come to saying anything was lucky is that the quake happened when it did and not three hours earlier when schools and government offices would have been full.

They believe that hundreds of thousands may have been killed, but the final death toll may never be known.

FiveThirtyEight has a terrific piece about the history of Haiti - why it's been so damaged by political *and* environmental catastrophies over the last 100+ years.

I live only 700 miles from Haiti, and people across Miami today are waiting to hear from friends and relatives; our local disaster teams are heading down there throughout the day, but the infrastructure of the country has been wracked by the earthquake so terribly that it's unclear if help will be able to get to those who need it to save their lives.

It will take years to rebuild the country - as Anderson is reporting on CNN right now, there is a huge need for anything and everything.

I put together some links to organizations and charities soliciting donations on help_haiti, which I set up this morning as a locus for an auction of creative works (fan and original) - offering posts should be up this afternoon and bidding can start immediately - but keep checking back as offers will be added into early next week!

help_haiti. Please.

Also, I know I knew how to do this at some point but can someone please tell me how to do those boxes with the scroll bar on the right, where someone can cut & paste the content inside into a comment, so we can have a template for Offerings?

help_haiti

All three Doctors Without Borders locations. The air traffic control system. United Nations buildings. Homes. The presidential palace and government buildings and schools; the closest you can come to saying anything was lucky is that the quake happened when it did and not three hours earlier when schools and government offices would have been full.

They believe that hundreds of thousands may have been killed, but the final death toll may never be known.

FiveThirtyEight has a terrific piece about the history of Haiti - why it's been so damaged by political *and* environmental catastrophies over the last 100+ years.

I live only 700 miles from Haiti, and people across Miami today are waiting to hear from friends and relatives; our local disaster teams are heading down there throughout the day, but the infrastructure of the country has been wracked by the earthquake so terribly that it's unclear if help will be able to get to those who need it to save their lives.

It will take years to rebuild the country - as Anderson is reporting on CNN right now, there is a huge need for anything and everything.

I put together some links to organizations and charities soliciting donations on help_haiti, which I set up this morning as a locus for an auction of creative works (fan and original) - offering posts should be up this afternoon and bidding can start immediately - but keep checking back as offers will be added into early next week!

help_haiti. Please.

Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed. There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.

That's what the president of Haiti said this morning. Among those trapped inside the Parliament building but still alive was the president of the Haitian Senate, Kely Bastien.

There's a page up on DailyKos this morning with ways to help the relief effort in Haiti.

Fandom always does amazing things when help is needed, and it obviously is now. Is anyone interested in creating for and/or bidding on fan/original creations/foods/jewelry/art where the money goes to one of a few aid groups, such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, OXFAM, Wyclef Jean's or Jimmy Jean-Louis's (the Haitian from Heroes) organizations.

I'm happy to help organize a comm and manage things (although I will be very AFK on Saturday) if others are interested. Feel free to direct people to this post if you think they're interested in helping.

And of course, please text/repost/RT this: Text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to @RedCross relief efforts in #Haiti Learn more: http://bit.ly/6KiRtE

ETA I've set up help_haiti - for now, I'm just putting up some info about ways to donate now, and a poll about auction time-frame and donation methods.