Crowd funding for orphanages in Haiti

I was lucky recently to travel to Boston to join a group of colleagues for a volunteer hackfest to build a website to benefit Haitian orphanages.  After a week of concentrated effort, there is still work to do, and the site is under construction.  ReliefHub, the nonprofit startup behind the site, is moving forward in establishing their operational capacity as well.

The hackfest team accomplished a lot, however, in a short amount of time. Pat Shaughnessy's blog describes the experience well, so I won't attempt to improve on it!

http://patshaughnessy.net/2010/11/1/reliefhub-hackfest-helping-orphanages-in-haiti

To learn more, or to make a donation to the effort, see http://www.reliefhub.org/