Pledge “chinaquake”
"I will give US$500 more to Chinese earthquake aid but only if 500 more people around the world will also donate at least US$20."
— Rebecca MacKinnon, Blogger, journalist, activist, teacher
Deadline to sign up by: 20th May 2008
383 people signed up, 117 more were needed
More details
INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS:
http://donate.ifrc.org/
WORLD VISION:
http://www.worldvision.org
U.S. TAX DEDUCTABLE TO CHINESE RED CROSS:
http://www.givingchina.org/GiveNow.asp
IN CHINA/IN CHINESE:
http://www.taobao.com/cn/
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Current signatories (
= they've done it)
Rebecca MacKinnon, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Elliott Ng
- Sarah Goodyear
- Denis Yuen
- Karen Palmer
- Tangos Chan
- Colin Mackerras
- 小容(Oliver Ding)
- 安猪
- Otto Malmgren
- Bruce Wang
- QienKuen
- James Farrer
- James and Deborah Fallows
- 边晓昌
- Pamela Hood
- Adam Minter
- Patrick Poon
- 奥日佳
- Quang Tran
- Joichi Ito
- Jane Eggers
- Ibrahim El-Mouelhy
- Yasheng Huang
- andre laliberte
- Kevin Miller
- Nathan Shuyou Rosenzweig
- Jeff Gibson
- Chuan Sun
- Cathy Ma
- Robert A. Kapp
- Yu Zheng
- jennifer lin
- Jennifer Thome
- Kang Li
- Sophie Beach
- Robert Eng
- Jun Niu
- Yunshan Ye
- Anne Henochowicz
- Dave Porter
- cokelaker
- Yan Zeng
- Mike Davies
- W Qi
- susan Roosevelt Weld
- Scott Galer
- Alastair Iain Johnston
- Dengfeng Zheng
- Chen Zhou
- X Zhou
- yang
- Jing Wang
- Thomas Bartlett and Li Liu
- Leo Chen
- Lynette Ong
- xiuli zhuang
- Malin Oud
- ying Zhao
- Gregory Ng
- Martin Hoyt
- Iva Jiang
- Tracy Lee
- Harrison
- Nancy Wu
- David and Deborah Pursch
- Barrett McCormick
- yubao chen
- John Kennedy
- Yongquan Han
- Kenneth Farrall
- Yang Dong
- Ruth Kurzbauer
- Chi-Chu Tschang
- May
- Min Shi
- 司昆仑
- Sarah Tranum
- Liu Yang
- Helen Baker
- ruby macdougall
- Hai
- Billie Lee
- Jennifer DuJat
- Rachel Wiltenburg
- jianwei
- xuetao zhang
- Amber Kuo
- qian liu
- Su Chen
- Jean Han
- zhi (Drew) Liu
- Hongwei Lu
- Jie Huang
- Shirley Loo
- Ed Xiong
- Yihong Ding
- candy
- Nancy Chen
- jun yuan
- Kate Rauch
- Ethan Michelson
- Brittany Marino
- Yali Z
- Margaret Lewis
- En-Hua Yang
- Isaac Mao
- Ying Chan
- bill bishop
- Weiyun Chen
- Youxue Zhang
- Erica Schlaikjer
- jinyanbin
- Blessing Them
- Ning Gong
- Jiqing Gou
- A. Tom Grunfeld
- Rochelle Garwood
- xi chen
- Qiang Zhu
- Rungsi Thavarungkul
- William Kirby
- Georgia Popplewell
- Kaiser Kuo
- Solana Larsen
- Holden Lewis
- Zhengjiu Xu
- JJJ
- shmilcc
- Fred Gan
- Ying He
- gaoshan
- Chris Mi
- Diana Tian
- chet brenner
- Lee Gao
- Harry Huang
- Simon Zhang
- 刘恺逸
- Wilson Too
- Jennie Du
- Dennis Ji
- 伊兹拉莱(William You)
- Alex Zhang
- Gerardo Giordano
- Yinghui Li
- Litao Yang
- Qi Li
- Naibo Liu
- Jerry Stryker and 龔德芬
- rong wu
- Xiaoming Liu
- Wei Zhou
- Zhilin Liu
- W W
- Jie Li
- Eliza He
- Jing Liu
- Haining Wang
- limin zhang
- Ying Sun
- lili
- bijun
- Lan Chang and Peter Maunz
- Luqiong Li and Ruixia He
- Linda Lin
- Jian Xie
- Keqi Yan
- sisi
- H Ouyang
- jizhou chen
- Rachel Beer
- Brian
- Gang Ma
- john wang
- zeng jinyan
- heidi
- Erning
- Xiaozheng Zeng
- Yue Z
- robert tian
- sophine
- Jin Liu
- Alex He
- Nikolaus Fogle
- David Weld
- wenjing wu
- Jenny
- Clara Siu
- tsalon
- Xiaoxia Zhu
- Yang Wang
- Zhi Yang
- BZ
- Lily Zhang
- ZS
- JJC
- nanhua zhang
- Han Yi
- Jing Wang
- Qian Cai
- yuhui ai
- Jian Xiong
- Fan Fan Yang
- Ryan.C
- Haicheng Guo
- Wenliang Yao
- Haiti
- James
- Lawrence Schattner
- Robin and Milo Beach
- Vu LeDang
- Geremie R Barme
- Stephanie Donahue
- Ni Sun
- Rick Martin
- POPOEVER
- Kim Davis
- rennyhu
- Lokman Tsui
- Kinhson Su
- Jenifer Weigand
- Zhiqiang Zhang
- Diana Stillman
- Yan Chen
- brigitte
- Shu Ren International School
- Sharon Manuel
- Joanna Ng
- ji cao
- jiakon
- S.MacKinnon
- Nan Zhang
- smallcolor
- Jianping Xue
- Qian
- 孟繁斌
- Yuan Weijing
- 冷韵
- haiwa
- dingxianshu
- Song Geng
- Shuxin Su
- Jerome Wang
- SinNeR
- Josh Chin
- Ling W
- Paul
- G. Chen
- 剑气凌人
- DJ Drummond
- shoojo
- jasmine
- 陈薇薇
- QTN
- 王晨曦
- Haiwang Yuan
- smilingdolphin
- Lin Feng
- john vendyback
- Bruce MacDougall
- Fan Yan
- Steve Beamesderfer
- Huidong Jin
- 62 people who did not want to give their names, 24 of whom have done the pledge
- 58 people who signed up in Facebook
Comments on this pledge
http://tinyurl.com/4w2yo9
(although their website is not working).
http://www.give2asia.org
https://www.redcross.org.hk/donation/use...
www.amityfoundation.org
http://www.khamaid.org/programs/disaster...
Thank you very much Ms. MacKinnon.
http://uk.china-embassy.org/eng/sghd/t43...
http://is.gd/gkw
I created a presentation for this pledge,I share it on slideshare.net
http://www.slideshare.net/OliverDing/ple...
Would you mind spread it to all of signers?
Many thanks for your kindness and love to China.
Thank you very much for your generosity. Even though only 137 people pledged here so far, I am sure many many more have donated already or plan to donate soon. They did not pledge here because they did not know this web site, or they do not trust this web site, or they do not know how this web site works. (For example, if someone pledges here, does it mean that he or she can only donate to a few organizations specified by this web site?)
Hence, please do not take the low response rate as an indication that only few people have donated.
Many thanks again!
Thanks
Donate directly to the Sichuan earthquake victims
Chinese Consulate in New York City
http://www.nyconsulate.prchina.org/chn/t...
http://blog.slideshare.net/2008/05/16/sl...
They also made China Earthquake as current Spotlight in homepage.
http://www.slideshare.net
My heart is warmed when I know people care.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for the suggestion. I do not know how to create a new pledge. Furthermore, my purpose was simply to attract 500 people quickly to this pledge site. I am sure many more than 50,000 people have already donated or are planning to donate soon.
It is easy to create a new pledge, just click on the menu "start a pledge".
Try it, you could use pledgebank to do more things:)
If you really want to help, just go ahead to donate!
Meanwhile, thanks to everybody who has posted good wishes and who has signed up on this pledge!
Warmly,
Rebecca
"help people get things done, especially things that require several people. We think that the world needs such a service: lots of good things don't happen because there aren't enough organised people to do them."
Rebecca alone is just a fraction of us - but if we help support her we can do more for people in China :)
For more information check out
http://www.pledgebank.com/faq
And the UK-China Embassy donation link has been updated to this: http://uk.china-embassy.org/eng/sghd/t43...
If you are in Hong Kong, you may make a financial contribution to the effort via: http://www.msf.org.hk/public/contents/ar...
Please join the mini campaign to support this pledge on twitter
http://tinyurl.com/6xo6nd
Thanks to Jenifer, thanks to everyone.
已完成。
If you are in Boston area, please also consider join relief walkathon or concert:
Links on top of this page
http://chinaearthquake.wikidot.com/
Thank you.
Actually, we're operating our own donation and will transfer to the matching donation initiated by government of Canada, here's a news link about it
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gj/bm/news/2...
supposed you have no problem with Chinese reading :P
Thank you, and bless my country and our world, pray for no pains, no fears, and no tears.