Firms are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars and rallying their own troops to raise donations for earthquake-torn Haiti.
We reached out to a few to see if they’d share what they were doing.
What they're doing, after the jump.
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Wanna Help? Check out this Wall Street Journal page on where and how to donate, the easiest of which seems to be texting the word “Haiti” to 90999 to donate $10 to the American Red Cross, or 501501 to be billed a five-buck contribution to Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti organization. If you're a due-diligence sort, check out Charity Navigator's Haiti page, which lists a number of well-known charities and provides background information, including how much of your donation goes to relief work, how much the CEO makes, and more. |
Skadden is donating $25,000 to the American Red Cross, $25,000 to Doctors Without Borders, and will match up to $50,000 in employee contributions.
The Paul Hastings Cares Foundation made a $100,000 donation to Doctors Without Borders – Haiti Earthquake Response.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Foundation is donating $100,000 to the Red Cross and Grace House of Hope orphanage. Located on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Grace House includes two orphanages, which had housed 70 girls but have been rendered uninhabitable by the earthquake.
Cooley Godward Kronish attorneys and staff will make a minimum aggregate donation of $50,000 to the American Red Cross International Relief Fund through a firmwide matching program.
Orrick's Community Responsibility Committee has approved a firm match for up to $75,000 for personal donations made to Action Against Hunger by Orrick lawyers and staff. Action Against Hunger was founded by Orrick partner Burton Haimes.
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation is matching employee contributions up to a total of $10,000. (Update 1: MoFo is upping its employee match to $25K because the firm has seen so much enthusiasm.)
Update 2: Pillsbury is donating $25,000 to the American Red Cross.
At O’Melveny, the peer pressure is on: Employees can wear jeans to work in exchange for making a donation of any amount toward the earthquake victims in Haiti.
Latham & Watkins is matching all employee contributions up to a total of $200,000 to the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, Care and World Vision.
Bingham McCutchen emails that the firm has started a fundraising campaign aiming to collect more than $125,000.
Nixon Peabody and Reed Smith said fundraising is under way, but didn’t offer specifics.
At Munger, Tolles & Olson partner Jerry Roth said in a statement that they are collecting donations, planning blood drives and coordinating with the Union of International Lawyers, which he co-chairs, and the American Bar Association to assist the Haitian bar in reestablishing a functioning legal system.
Let us know what your firm is doing, and we'll update.
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