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From: Sara DeSanto, US ANC Chariites <us.anc.charities@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM
Subject: National Haiti Disaster Relief Drive
To: us-announce@cammail.white-wolf.com, uscamarilla-ooc@cammail.white-wolf.com

I am sure most of you have heard about the devastating earthquake in Haiti this past Tuesday. The earthquake is said to have affected at least 3 million people. 300,000 people are left homeless, at least 50,000 are dead and more still missing or injured. Many of you have asked if/what we are going to be doing for a national charity drive for the disaster in Haiti, after some consideration I announce the charity.... Well how the charity is going to be working, as we're going a little out of the box for this, and at least one region has started doing a charity in this manner as well.

There are a few ways to help in this specific time of need, donating cash, donating goods and donating time.

We will be running this charity alongside the Quarterly charities, through June 30, 2010.

Monetary Donations

Donating cash can be done simply by going to a given organizations website, Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, World Vision, Doctors Without Borders, for more listings check out listings google has compiled oh so nicely for us.

Where you donate doesn't have to be one from here, but they're all good examples of places to donate

Donations of Goods and Time

However we understand that donation of money is not something all/most are able to do at this point in time. This is where the old adage of 'charity begins at home' comes into play. What do I mean by this, I mean, have your local domain contact and organization, local or a branch of a more major organization such as the Red Cross, and work out a 'local' charity drive with them. Help them put 'care packages' together, donate items for 'care packages', help with fund-raising drives. Find out what is needed and get people together to do actual charity work for your chosen organization.

Prestige

I almost wish I didn't have to mention this part, cause really stuff like this is way too serious to be worrying about earning prestige for. However I know it'll get more of you (collectively) if we tell you what kind of prestige this will be worth.

Prestige for this drive will be capped at 30N/month, if you do this as part of your regional drive, it will be combined into the national drive and made into national prestige instead of regional prestige.

Monetary donations, will be following the current standard of $3 per 1 prestige, however as this is a national charity drive that prestige is going to be worth National prestige. RECEIPTS ARE *REQUIRED*.

Time donations, will be worth 5 prestige per hour volunteered. *You should be able to get some confirmation of time volunteered with a given organization.*

Item donations, will be based on local coordinator recommendations however donations of this sort need to be itemized. Again Receipts / Proof of Donation are *REQUIRED*

Good Example:

Donated 30 normal sized bars of bath soap, 10 bottles of travel sized shampoo/conditioner to Local red cross

Bad example: snacks/soap/ramen (no sizes, no counts, no listing of who received the donations etc....)

Exceptional Service: Remember this may be possible, so send everything you've done for this charity in, it never looks bad to go above and beyond what you'll get awarded prestige for. We're holding pretty high standards to earn this type of award, but I thought I would mention that it is possible, if you do the exceptional type of work worthy of such an award.

How to report this: Donations of Goods and money must have receipts shown to your local DC/CC (or direct coord in the case of dc's) who will collect each months prestige for this drive and submit it in their monthly report as normal and include a separate report titled “Haiti Disaster Relief National Drive – domain/chapter code and mm/yy” send it to your regional reports list and regions ARC Charities, who will compile a list of National Charity participants to send to me.

Habitat for humanity and this drive, If you are doing work locally for Habitat it will be considered part of that drive, if you do work for Habitat for Haiti relief, it is considered part of this drive.

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Sara DeSanto, Us 2002023225
US ANC Charities
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Even when there isn't a blood drive Donate! Cause there's always a need
http://wiki.white-wolf.com/camwiki/index.php?title=Category:Camarilla_Blood_Dolls

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Sara DeSanto, Us 2002023225
US ANC Charities
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Even when there isn't a blood drive Donate! Cause there's always a need
http://wiki.white-wolf.com/camwiki/index.php?title=Category:Camarilla_Blood_Dolls

Running Jan 8th 2010 to March 31st 2010 :)
Habitat for Humanity <http://habitat.org/>
Yes I know it's the middle of winter, however they still have plenty of needs, for Volunteers and donations of various supplies (check with your local habitat for humanity division for their specific wish lists) as well as monetary donations. However they have needs for people to help with clerical work and help out in their ReStore locations.

*So what you can do to earn prestige for this drive*: (max 30 prestige for donations of either time/items/money per month of the drive) Contact your local branch of Habitat for Humanity to see what specific needs they have for volunteers and donations of items.

*Volunteer Time* in whatever manner they currently need, sometimes it's clerical work, other times it's building houses. (Seriously, if you're going to volunteer to do work, please take pictures, our anc newsletter would love to get them too *hint hint: this is a way to earn even more national prestige*)

*Donate stuff* Check with your local habitat for humanity for their specific needs for item donations. Generally prestige for items is 1-5 per item unless they're larger items like computers, moderate to larger furniture and appliances.

Lastly *Donate Money* if for some reason you're unable to donate any of the previous two items you can donate money. Current rules for monetary donations is 1 prestige per $3 donated.

For this charity drive please have your DC/CC send award recommendations (cause the NC awards this) to your regions ARC Charities, being specific as possible about what was done for the charity or what was donated (and if you've gone over the cap, still let us know) and they'll compile that to send to me. Please put 'National Habitat for Humanity drive' in the subject line (by itself) of the email sent to ARC's to make it simpler for them to compile.

If you don't have a habitat for humanity location near to you (please check their website) contact me at us.anc.charities@gmail.com and we'll figure something out that's comparable.