As of January 27:
Update on the Jan 22nd Hope for Haiti Now telethon:
Cumulative audience: 83M viewers
Live on-line video streams: 1.9M
After it aired on TV: 5.8M
iPhone application: 100K downloads
Just that night over 1M tweets
Money raised $61M
Source: PerezHilton
As of Jan 29th:
American Red Cross had collected $198M – more than one-third of the total $560M raised
17 days after Haiti earthquake: more than $560M donated to 40 US nonprofit groups (list of tallies)
Took only 8 days after Katrina to raise that much. [Where did it go?]
As of Jan 26, the Business Civic Leadership Center (nonprofit affiliated with US Chamber of Commerce): $122M raised from 299 companies.
Some of the smaller charities involved with Haiti before the earthquake: Angelwish, Beyond Borders, and Hope for Haiti’s Children Ministries.
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
