Month: August 2010

Post author By SA Relief
Post date August 31, 2010
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Devastating floods have affected the lives of millions of people in Pakistan. To assist in the response efforts, the San Deigo based Â mobile chip maker Qualcomm has made a $50,000 donation to Oxfam Americaâ€™s Pakistan Flood Relief and Recovery Fund.

Oxfam America and its partners are currently working to provide safe evacuation to hundreds of thousands of people, and Â providing clean water, food, Â and sanitation facilities for tens of thousands of displaced and stranded survivors.

Reported by: Saibrina Akhtar

To find out if your company has a matching program, please visit our Corporate Response page here.

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Call to Action: Help #Hash the Floods …

Post author By SA Relief
Post date August 31, 2010
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Twitter users, wondering how you can help the PakistanÂ Flood Relief cause? Here is one way: Â re-tweet one of the following tweets …

Twitter Campaign 1 …Corporate Matching Funds:

It’s about Us, Acting Now, for Them…HELP #Pkfloods victims. Get ur company to match: http://bit.ly/acNtU0 #<Companu> #<company> (via @arrafiq)

Replace <company> with names of a wellÂ knownÂ Fortune 1000 corporation. Make sure you to leave (via @arrafiq), that will enable us to track the campaign.

Twitter Campaign 2 … Call for donations:

It’s about Us, Acting Now, for Them…HELP #Pkfloods victims. Donate to: http://ow.ly/2xgBJ #<Popular Hashtag> #<Popular Hashtagy> (via @arrafiq)

Replace <Popular Hashtag> with aÂ popularÂ Twitter hashtag, preferably a trending tag

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â€œPakistan Then and Nowâ€ Montage

Post author By SA Relief
Post date August 30, 2010
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Presentation by Umair Khan, shared at Mega Fund and Awareness raiser in Silicon Valley.

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PayPal Credits Transaction Fee for PK Relief

Post author By SA Relief
Post date August 28, 2010
1 Comment on PayPal Credits Transaction Fee for PK Relief

By Judy Chang

To support those impacted by the Pakistan disaster, PayPal will credit transactional fees incurred from July 29 to September 23, 2010, to any US 501(c)(3) organization or Canada Revenue Agency registered charity raising money to aid Pakistan relief.

All organizations collecting for disaster relief in Pakistan are eligible to receive fee credits. These will be issued for qualifying US 501c3 and Canada Revenue Agency registered charities raising funds for Pakistan relief between July 29 and September 23, an extension of the standard 30 days since the disaster has unfolded over weeks. Please send an e-mail toÂ nonprofit@paypal.com for fee credit consideration. Â Continue reading.

Having said that online donations collected for the 4×4 OFF-ROAD Relief Campaign are being done by Paksef (Pakistan Science & Engineering Foundation) a 501(c)(3) non-profit Corporation in California.