Suns fans, HAITI NEEDS OUR HELP! OT- Haiti RealGM Community

Major_9000 · Post #1 » by **Major_9000** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:42 pm

Dear Suns fans,

The Toronto Raptors RealGM Board has banded together and is challenging each other to donate money for Haiti, we have raised over $1,500 as of this morning. We'd like to invite you to join us in helping Haiti or challenge you to start your own Haiti thread.

You can find the Raptors Haiti thread here...viewtopic.php?f=32&t=976950&start=0

OP, I just changed the title a bit--rsavaj

Post #2 » by **Miklo** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:50 pm

PROPS

I will look into this as soon as I get home from work.

Post #3 » by **rsavaj** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:02 pm

Absolutely great idea. Come on guys....we can definitely do this.

You can give $10 to the Red Cross by texting the word "HAITI" to 90999 or give $5 to the United Way by texting "Haiti" to 864833.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... million-/1

I've texted to the red cross once a day for the past three days. I think $10 is something that most(if not all) of us can spare....that's like 2.5 coffee drinks from Starbucks or something. This is like Katrina but even larger-scale, and the devastation in Haiti is compounded by the fact that the infrastructure there was crap to begin with.

Let's do this!

Suns Board total: $340 .

1/16--hooray, we broke $100! Keep it up.
--Miklo just about doubles our total! We broke $200!
1/28-broke $300!

Post #4 » by **rsavaj** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:04 pm

Where else you can donate:

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/break ... 09967.html

Post #5 » by **rsavaj** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:07 pm

Another place you can donate: http://www.savethechildren.org/

Post #6 » by **Miklo** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:27 pm

How does the texting work - does it go on your phone bill or does it prompt you to text your billing info?

Post #7 » by **rsavaj** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:38 pm

Miklo wrote:How does the texting work - does it go on your phone bill or does it prompt you to text your billing info?

Shows up on your bill I think

Post #8 » by **rsavaj** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:12 pm

Wyclef's charity's got some issues: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... clef1.html

aIvin adams · Post #9 » by **aIvin adams** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:00 am

ha. i was just thinkin about this. nba.com sent an nba cares update asking for donations to haiti. i was wondering why they didnt set it up so that one could donate "thru" one's team, ie i donate 10 bucks and it goes to the suns fans' total. then fans could compete, like voting for all-star!

is that what's happening here? what's with the total towards the top of the thread? ive already donated a couple bucks to haiti but i will donate more. i plan on staying home from the strip clubs and watching free streaming porn tonight, so there's $100 right there.

hunterxaz · Post #10 » by **hunterxaz** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:13 am

Already donated via Red Cross. Make sure if you want to help, to do it through well-known, trusted sources.

Post #11 » by **rsavaj** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:11 am

aIvin adams wrote:ha. i was just thinkin about this. nba.com sent an nba cares update asking for donations to haiti. i was wondering why they didnt set it up so that one could donate "thru" one's team, ie i donate 10 bucks and it goes to the suns fans' total. then fans could compete, like voting for all-star!

is that what's happening here? what's with the total towards the top of the thread? ive already donated a couple bucks to haiti but i will donate more. i plan on staying home from the strip clubs and watching free streaming porn tonight, so there's $100 right there.

I just thought the total would be a good way of emulating the TOR thread. They've already totaled over 3000 bucks from their members. You can update it with your contributions.

Post #12 » by **rsavaj** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:39 am

So....are there only like five of us here who can spare $10 :/? 128 views...

Post #13 » by **rsavaj** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:25 am

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/

Post #14 » by **Qwigglez** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:48 am

rsavaj wrote:So....are there only like five of us here who can spare $10 :/? 128 views...

Just like Sarver, we are cheap.
No just kidding.
I will donate money, tomorrow. When I'm not so messed up.
Even though I don't have a job...
Its better than spending $5-$10 at iHop for all-you-can-eat pancakes.
Or going to a lame a$$ frat party.
Or going to a bar paying a cover fee and then paying for drinks.
Give me a few days. I think I have money in my paypal.

Flying Colors · Post #15 » by **Flying Colors** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:35 pm

i just donated 30$ to red cross, so you can bring the total up now

Post #16 » by **rsavaj** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:43 pm

BizzyPHX wrote:i just donated 30$ to red cross, so you can bring the total up now

Awesome, I just chipped in another $10. We broke $100!

Post #17 » by **Miklo** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:07 am

Alright good news. Took me a little bit longer because I wanted to update my February budget, etc but I just made my donation of $100 to Red Cross. Was gonna order a CRKT tactical knife for my collection (no creepo) but I believe rice and wood/nails are more important right now.

Post #18 » by **rsavaj** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:10 am

Miklo wrote:Alright good news. Took me a little bit longer because I wanted to update my February budget, etc but I just made my donation of $100 to Red Cross. Was gonna order a CRKT tactical knife for my collection (no creepo) but I believe rice and wood/nails are more important right now.

Wow man, that's awesome. Excellent job!

Post #19 » by **Miklo** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:58 am

Yeah, well now that the 4 or 5 of us did this our board better wise up and hit 1,000 by the end of the week!

Post #20 » by **rsavaj** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:48 am

Miklo wrote:Yeah, well now that the 4 or 5 of us did this our board better wise up and hit 1,000 by the end of the week!

+1 man! If like half of the people who viewed the thread donated $10 we'd have over $1000 right now! Oxfam, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, Clinton/Bush foundation...so many ways to help if you don't want to do Red Cross