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Fashionable Philanthropy, A Widget That Keeps On Giving, and $100K Scholarship Prize for Girls

Fashion Delivers Foundation was created in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita with a goal to organize the collection and distribution of new clothing and home items to hurricane victims.The group was able to collect and give over $4.5 million dollars worth of men's and women's clothing directly to people in the devastated areas.  
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Rebuilding Mobile Women's Health Clinics in Haiti

PROFAMIL Haiti has provided sexual and reproductive health services in Haiti since 1984. This organization is part of a 40 member organization network called International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR). The program in Haiti has three clinics, but the ones in Port-au-Prince, and Jacmel were completely destroyed by the earthquake as you can see by the photo below.  
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Haiti: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

by Beth Kanter at 5:23pm Sun, 17 Jan 2010 under Non-profits; 845 views
Britt Bravo's last two posts on Haiti, have provided a good round up of how to help and the creative fundraising that is taking place. I wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view about nonprofit work there. Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel
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How to Use Your iPhone to Help Others

Last week, I created an iPhone app out of my blog in ten minutes at a cost of $50 using a service call AppMkr.  It made wonder when we'll start to see more iPhone apps from and to benefit nonprofits.  
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