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American Charities Raise Nearly $1 Billion for Haiti

By David KnowlesMar 17th 2010 – 6:44PM
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(March 17) -- Following Haiti's devastating earthquake, Americans opened their hearts and picked up their cell phones. A tally by The Chronicle of Philanthropy finds that in the nine weeks following the magnitude-7.0 quake that leveled much of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas on Jan. 12, American charities raised...

Background on Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.

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