Thanks Marisa.

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>From: "Marisa Pagnattaro" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:13:16 AM
>Subject: Re: Haiti
>
>For those of you who are considering making donations for relief in 
>Haiti, I pass along this message from my husband, John Beasley. He's 
>been very involved with the relief group Food for the Poor and he 
>was in Haiti checking on water projects in December. You might find 
>his blog and information about the organization worthwhile:
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>From: John Beasley <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Haiti - Food for the Poor
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
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>Re: Food for the Poor - They have been a great organization to work 
>with in accomplishing our goals for water wells in Haiti.  I have 
>worked with these folks for the last 2 years
>and my law partner has worked with them for 5. I have met their 
>president and vp of operations and a number of the other managers in 
>their organization.  As charitable non-profit organizations go it is 
>one of the top 2 or 3 and I think the best for relief in the 
>Caribbean. They send
>97-98% of their donations to programs. If you go to 
>www.foodforthepoor.org you can get a sense for some of what they do 
>and the awards they have received. There are also independent 
>sources that evaluate charities and
>they always rank at the top.
>
>Also, colleagues might take a look at my blog 
>www.waterlifehope.blogspot. I mention a lot
>about what they are doing and what we have done in partnership with 
>them to bring water to Haiti. I also spotlight one of their program 
>directors Delane
>Bailey - an amazing woman.
>
>Finally, I am more than happy to talk to folks about our continuing 
>work in establishing wells in Haiti - the immediate need now is 
>earthquake relief but the need for water will follow on the heels of 
>the clean-up and medical
>emergencies.  I have no doubt that we will need new wells and 
>repairs to existing wells and to continue our projects in other 
>parts of the country. If there is an interest in donating a well, 
>water system or in funding one
>of the micro-economy fishing villages (all the more important with 
>the commercial shutdown of Port au Prince for the immediate future), 
>please let me know!
>
>John Beasley
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>Marisa Anne Pagnattaro, J.D., Ph.D.
>Associate Professor of Legal Studies
>Insurance, Legal Studies and Real Estate
>206 Brooks Hall
>Terry College of Business
>The University of Georgia
>Athens, GA 30602-6255
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>706.583.0459 (phone)
>706.542.4295 (fax)
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>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:35:42 -0600
> >From: "Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk" 
> <[log in to unmask]> (on behalf of Bill Shaw <[log in to unmask]>)
> >Subject: Haiti
> >To: [log in to unmask]
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> >Executive Committee,
> >It might be a good idea to set up an ALSB web site for relief
> >contributions to Haiti.
> >I expect we could pull in an extra thousand or two of much needed 
> assistance.
> >Bill