“With tens of thousands feared dead following a devastating series of earthquakes in Haiti, Apple and the American Red Cross have begun accepting donations for aid and relief through the iTunes Music Store,” AppleInsider reports.
“Through a link featured on the front page of the store, customers can contribute (iTunes link) as little as $5, or as much as $200,” AppleInsider reports. “The donations are charged through users’ credit cards through iTunes, in the same manner a music or movie purchase would be charged.”
AppleInsider reports, “The contributions are essentially anonymous, as Apple will not reveal personal information of its users to the American Red Cross through the transactions. Those who give will receive an e-mail confirmation from the iTunes Store, which will be the only evidence of the donation for tax writeoff purposes.”
Full article here.
Can we do this from the iTunes iPhone/iPod touch app? I don’t see a way. Has anyone been successful? If not, I will have to wait until I am home on my computer.
Nice. I wanted to make a donation to help and didn’t quite know where to go. Thumbs up to Apple and ARC.
First time I have ever donated. It was easy enough for me.
My tax dollars are enough of a donation. That $100 million Obambi pledged and the hundreds of millions, if not billions more this relief effort will cost the US didn’t exactly appear out of thin air. The American tax payer (the ones who actually generate enough income to pay taxes) is already racking up a new tab for Haiti.
Nice to see the curdled milk of human kindness is flowing through the veins of some of us today
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text donation to yele and red cross worked pretty quickly and easily. The smart phone offers ways to do things today even more easily than even through a web site. That’s what Google realized.
I use “itunes gift cards” to buy in iTunes, can you donate with that?
Cool. I donated my $5.00.
Money doesn’t help.
It would be nice of iTunes featured this on the top of the page instead of hiding it at the bottom where no one can find it.
@R2,
Aren’t you tired of being a “dittohead”? You guys are even worse than Limbaugh…you willingly swallow and regurgitate his bile.
haiti has gotten billions of dollars ever since the clinton admin. none of the money goes to the people, including any money sent now. best thing to do is use money and send people there to hand out supplies , tents and bulldoze all the debris. just handing out cash is B.S.
R2, how can you look at yourself in a mirror without projectile vomiting?
——RM
jim, they’re not “handing out cash”! Relief efforts cost money. Christ, the logical knots some people twist themselves into to avoid feeling guilty about being miserly, selfish sh**s.
——RM
@R2,
RLS (Rush Limbaugh Syndrome) can be cured. Trust me. Get help.
I would like to donate Rush to Haiti for meat. He could feed thousands. His meat is also rich in painkillers.
ChrissyOne a cannibal? seems so.
cannibal, liberal much the same thing.
@ Jack
Rush would have to be human for that to be true.
Hah! ChrissyOne for the win!
LOL! ChrissyOne just owned you, Jack.
@R2, I see by your post that you are a bigot. I acknowledge their 100 Million pledged by our President comes form our tax dollars, but come on man… these are fellow humans in need and now is not the time for your hate and bigotry.
@ r2 and jack, you’ve been iPhoned er… um… you know what I mean…
Chrissy One… biatch!
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As of today, Americans who texted a $10 donation for Haitian earthquake relief had raised a total of $8 million in just 48 hours.
It doesn’t take a big donation to make a difference when you combine your effort with others.
As a Rotarian I am pleased to see how quickly we have emergency supplies and volunteers already at the site. Rotary is really good for Non-Governmental disaster relief because we have members in almost every country of the world to direct the aid in an intelligent and organized manner. I still went ahead and used the iTunes/ARC link for the quick and easy donation. ARC does a pretty good job too and are also an NGO. As part of the human race, we need to do what we can to help those struck by natural disasters.
“humaintarian aid” to Haiti, bombs for iraq/afgan/pakistan.
to quote john lennon “very strange days indeed”