Emergency: Deadly Floods in the Philippines

I have an associate who is Filipino-American and the last I knew, he was writing for a Filipino newspaper.  Several years ago, we collaborated on a successful project and I have since followed his progress and have been pleased to see him do well.  I had a chance to visit with him today to talk about a project I have in mind to benefit the survivors of the floods going on in the Philippines.  I looked to him for input or assistance in implementing this.  Here's what I have in mind.

As well as facilitate and promote people's good causes and efforts, we at Exist Kind of course like to coordinate efforts with the Exist Kind name on them.  We want to arrange a donation drive to benefit relief efforts in the Philippines and involve the Filipino-American community in Southern Arizona, as well as anyone else who would like to help.  One approach we want to take is to speak with the staff of local Filipino-American businesses and members of cultural organizations to promote a donation drive, passively solicit monetary donations, and direct people in their networks to this blog to get money to organizations such as the Red Cross and Global Giving (most likely those two in particular).  We're specifying monetary donations because so many relief efforts nowadays prefer cash over goods, unless a donor is an entity who can provide large quantities of bulk items.  The second possibility for this plan is to solicit donations of goods to sell on eBay, the proceeds from which would be diverted (via eBay's tools) to one of these organizations.  We'd be looking to donate 85 to 90 percent, with the remainder paying for the operating costs of packaging, shipping, and any fuel expended to pick up donations around town.  Either way, we will provide receipts and proof of donations being given to the organizations to assure donors of our intentions.

I'll tape a short video to promote this and post it here and on YouTube shortly.