Thursday, January 21, 2010

Chicago Helps Haiti Telethon is Today!


Give now at (877) 565-5000 or visit www.chicagoredcross.org/haiti

Leave us a comment! Did you give? What inspires you about the relief effort?

11:57 a.m. It's almost lunchtime! And we've reached $1,517,513!!! Keep up the great work Chicago.

11:41 a.m. Time's flying and the gifts are pouring in! We have a new matching gift parternship with CDW. They will match individual donations that are $1,000 or more, with a total committment of $100,000! Let's get there!

9:20 a.m. We just topped a million!! We're at $1,212,336!! Keep it up, Chicago

8:30 a.m. New total: $841,249!! The Red Cross has 400 workers on the ground in Haiti, in addition to thousands of local volunteers. Reports now that there may be 2 million left homeless.

8:13 a.m. Sorry we're a little late getting on the live blogging wagon, but we're here now! The Chicago media have been at Hewitt all morning broadcasting from our call center and we've raised $810,404 so far! That's amazing! The McCormick Foundation is matching gifts at 50 cents on the dollar, up to $500,000. The gift isn't yet reflected in the total, so let's hit $1 million and see it spike!!

1 comment:

Nancy Loo said...

So honored to be part of this incredible effort. Thanks to all for the hard work for an important cause.
Nancy Loo
Fox Chicago News