Help for Haiti – $1 Per Comment

Thank you to everyone who commented. I will be donating $10 to the Red Cross on behalf of my readers at Out of Debt Again.

Come on y’all!  Please comment – I would like to donate more than five dollars on your behalf!

I’ve made this post sticky, meaning it will stay at the top of my blog until February 14th. Please look below this post for newer content.  Thank you for making a comment today!

I’ve been meaning to join in with the other bloggers who are helping donate money to Haiti.  The photos and news coverage is just so heartbreaking.  So far I’ve helped Haiti by donating my rewards from our Discover credit card.

Today I pledge to donate $1 for each comment to this post until February 14th.

I also want to share some links around the personal finance blogosphere regarding Haiti.

Donations Because of You

• Mr. Credit Card is donating one dollar for each comment on his post: Haiti Aid, Comment, Blog and Mr. Credit Card will match. Mr. Credit also shares the credit card companies that are helping consumers donate. Mr. Credit Card will also donate $5 if you blog about his Haiti Aid page (confirmed by email today 2-1).
• Mrs. Money is donating $1 for each new RSS subscriber, as well as fifty cents for each comment to her post Helping Haiti $1 at a Time .
• Kevin Martineua – Help for Haiti Challenge – his original goal was to reach $250 but only got to $94 so this is a new challenge to try and reach that goal.
• Crystal at Money Saving Mom is donating $0.30 for each comment on her post here. She also has a giant list of bloggers that have pledged to help Haiti.
• Free From Broke suggests donating to Doctors Without Borders, sharing why and also pledges to donate all affilitate earnings from the sales of the book An Imperfect Offering.
• Bargain Babe tells us that Dealnews is matching donations by 100%.

More Information &  Stay Safe When You Donate

• You can make sure your charity is qualified by going to this page at the IRS.
• Consumerism Commentary tells us about the new bill that was passed – if you donate money to Haiti from January 11 to February 28, you can still use it as a tax deduction if you itemize your taxes.
• 20 Something Finance gets a bit more into the nitty-gritty details here, including that you can use this money as a tax deduction for 2009 or 2010 in Haiti Donations Tax Deductible for 2009 or 2010.
• Growing Money Blog with some warnings about making sure your charity is not a scam in Legitimate Charitable Organizations for Donations to Haiti Earthquake Relief.
• Smart Spending says to Make Sure Your Money Goes for Quake Aid in Haiti.
• At BlogHerAds, Robert Siciliano, a personal security and identity theft expert warns about the phishing emails that are going around.  He recommends donating through Red Cross.
• MarketWatch warns Don’t Let Scammers Hijack Your Haiti Donations.

What Some Bloggers Have Done Already

• Million Dollar Journey matched donations up to $500 already!
• Pioneer Woman pledged to donate one dime for each comment and ended up donating $2585 to Compassion, $2585 to Doctors Without Borders and $2585 to Red Cross on behalf of the Friends of Pioneer Woman.
• Kelly at The Centsible Life pledged to donate 10 cents to every comment on her giveaway post.

I also found this blog where Dr. Carol and Tom are doctors in Haiti with recent updates here.

Please share how you have helped Haiti when you comment.

Thanks for your help!

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