Co-op Haiti Relief Day Results in Over $1000. 3 More Haiti Days Planned.

Thank you to the nearly 4,000 Co-op shoppers that visited the store on Saturday, January 23 for our first Haiti Relief Day. The Co-op is donating 1% of the proceeds from store sales on the 23rd, which resulted in $925.00. In addition, Co-op customers that couldn't shop on our first Haiti Relief Day provided $144.27 in donations through the registers. In total $1067.27 will be donated to the Cooperative Emergency Fund for Haiti Relief.

The Cooperative Development Fund has created the Cooperative Emergency Fund specifically to provide financial aid to people during a devastating event like the recent earthquake. The Cooperative Emergency Fund will be donating all monies received from here until July 2010 to help the rebuilding efforts in Haiti. CDF will be collaborating with international cooperative relief efforts in this endeavor to rebuild those co-ops afflicted by this disaster.

The news out of Haiti continues to be bleak, so the Co-op has decided to implement three more Haiti Relief Days, on which 1% of sales will be donated. The next Haiti Relief Days are Saturday, January 30, February 6 and February 13.

In addition to the percentage of sales donated by the Co-op, Members and customers can also donate to the relief fund online at their secure Web site, www.cdf.coop. Over the last 20 years, the Cooperative Emergency Fund has raised over $275,000 for cooperative relief and rebuilding efforts for ten different disasters. The CEF was founded to give stability and constancy to CDF’s emergency relief efforts, many of which are of a longer-term rebuilding nature.