Phillipines Typhoon Relief

Jeesh… who would have thought that a bunch of pennies could help restock a typhoon-destroyed school in the Philippines?

Fortunately, a fellow church friend, Honduras orphanage philanthropist, and 6th grade school teacher at Lyons Central School in upstate, NY did.

His name is Eric Lewis… and a few months ago after a liturgy at St. Michael’s Parish he told my [...]

The following is an update on our typhoon relief in the Philippines. It´s a pretty amazing story of how a 22 year old Filipina struggled to survive the flood and rebuild her family´s life.

Please note that I left out the names of my friends who sent me this update. I have also used ¨Maggie¨ as [...]

Thank you to everyone who is helping us with our Philippines typhoon relief fund.

Little by little we’re getting up there. We’re now at $3,398 in donations… on our way to $4,000 by the end of next week.

As of today, we’ve sent $3,000 over so far:

$1,000 – These funds went to Ortigas Center, Manila relief ops at [...]

My friend Emma just got back from Manila. Here was an update she sent me from her perspective of things over there:

Emma (blonde) with Riza (all the way to the left) and James (all the way to the right)

“I first came to the Philippines exactly a year ago. This is now my third [...]

I’ve heard stories of entire neighborhoods disappearing from mudslides triggered by the typhoon rain in remote areas of the Philippines.

Riza and James are two of my friends living in Pampanga, Philippines. They're overwhelmed with the amount of help needed for the typhoon/mudslide victims. Right now, they're raising money to help fund a life-saving operation [...]

Morris Gage (on right) hiking through a jungle in Costa Rica

Morris Gage is one of the nicest guys I know.

He’s a good friend of my dad’s from upstate, NY — and he was a huge influence in the development of the soccer teams at my high school back in the day.

He also makes the [...]

Tonight, we videotaped the raffle for Rebecca’s floral painting. She donated this painting to help raise awareness for the typhoon victims. Thanks a million to all who have rallied for the victims through donations and other support. At approximately 1015pm CT, Rebecca drew one name out of my 1 gallon cowboy hat. And the winner [...]

Cecile will put a collection jar out at her garage sale to help raise awareness and funds for Philippines typhoon victims.

My friend and coworker, Cecile, will be putting out a collection jar at her garage sale tomorrow in Austin to help raise awareness and funds for the Philippines typhoon victims.

I think that is a [...]

I just had a quick MSN conversation with David, my Filipino friend. He’s one of the guys with a quote on the left side of this web site.

Anyways, David says that another typhoon is hitting Manila right now. Fortunately, he didn’t think this one is going to be as bad.

David and Velvet (one of my Filipina [...]

**First Relief Update**

The first call center that I helped launch for Dell over in the Philippines was  with an outsource partner called Ambergris — located in Ortigas Center, Manila.

Only days after Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, TIP team members tirelessly prepare relief goods for their affected teammates.

A year before I left Dell, Ambergris got bought [...]

Good news today: The United States Department of Agriculture just announced it will send nearly $9 million worth of rice and dry milk to the Philippines.

This donation should help provide food and drink to 438,000 “Ondoy” and “Pepeng” flood victims for 60 days.

The U.S. Agriculture Secretary said:

The food aid I am announcing today will help [...]

Art is making a free iPhone application called "FilipinoFloodRelief"

My buddy Art volunteered to create a free iPhone application for Social Donating.

It’s called “FilipinoFloodRelief” — and it’ll pretty much be the same thing as this web site, but tailored to iPhone users.

I don’t have an iPhone so I’m not that familiar with applications.

But since Art [...]

When I announced that I wanted to help raise funds for the Philippines typhoon victims I knew two things would happen…

My family would help out
My friends would help out

Sure enough, they did… and within 24 hours we had raised $500.

Today, less than 2 weeks later, we’re at $2,000. This is fantastic. I want to thank [...]

Kathryn helps us get the word out to Daily Messenger subscribers

Kathryn Rybczak – from the Canandaigua, NY-based Daily Messenger — took the time to interview me last week.

Like Gwen (Chronicle Express) and Jim (KVUE News), Kathryn asked a lot of great questions and showed a genuine interest in helping us convey our message about [...]

KVUE news anchor and report, Jim Bergamo, helps us spread the word about the Philippines typhoon victims who need help right now

Jim Bergamo – from the Austin, TX-based KVUE news team — took the time to interview my brother and I on Monday to help raise awareness for the Philippines typhoon victims.

The TV interview aired Monday [...]