Where to Donate to Mexico Earthquake Victims<br />Direct Relief, a humanitarian aid organization, has staff members in Mexico City and has pledged<br />that 100 percent of its donations will go directly to relief efforts, which it says will include facilitating the delivery of medical supplies to affected areas.<br />The American Red Cross, for example, is considered a highly rated three-star organization by Charity Navigator,<br />but it has come under fire in recent years after ProPublica and National Public Radio investigated how it spent money in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.<br />“There are a lot of individuals in times of disaster<br />that will take advantage of the emotional response people will have,” Sara Nason, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator, said in a phone interview.<br />Fondo Unido México, part of the United Way network, has created an emergency fund to help<br />the areas affected by the earthquakes as well as the recent series of hurricanes.<br />For those seeking more information about a particular charity, “digging a little deeper might entail just contacting the organization,” Ms. Nason said<br />The Charity Navigator website, which rates United States charitable organizations, is a good<br />place to start when researching a nonprofit, as it does much of the legwork for you.<br />GlobalGiving, a crowdfunding organization, has pledged that all money donated to its earthquake fund will go to recovery and relief efforts.<br />Less than two weeks ago, the strongest earthquake to hit Mexico in a century killed at least 90 people and destroyed thousands of homes.
