Social Media and Disaster: Hospitals On Facebook | KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

Social Media and Disaster: Hospitals On Facebook | KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

Y�le Haiti Closes Amid Investigations | PND | Foundation Center

Y�le Haiti Closes Amid Investigations | PND | Foundation Center: osted on October 15, 2012 print

Y�le Haiti Closes Amid Investigations

Two months after the remaining employee of Y�le Haiti, the charity established by Haitian-American hip hop artist Wyclef Jean, resigned, questions remain about the $16 million the charity collected to benefit the people of earthquake-battered Haiti, the New York Times reports.

On the heels of Jean's refusal to accept a settlement proposed by the New York attorney general's office regarding alleged "financial improprieties," Y�le Haiti CEO Derek Q. Johnson resigned in August. Other investigations into the charity's finances and activities, many of which have been abandoned, continue.

FEMA Needs a New Approach to Disaster Relief - Economic Intelligence (usnews.com)

FEMA Needs a New Approach to Disaster Relief - Economic Intelligence (usnews.com): In contrast to this informal, unstructured, goal-oriented approach, FEMA arrived with a more formal structure and approach. Many FEMA workers had extensive knowledge and experience, but seemed limited in what they were allowed to do. In the middle of cleaning out a basement, a FEMA worker would suddenly appear with a request that people stop and fill out forms. One crusty old Vietnam vet explained to a FEMA worker, "You've never been in a war zone. This is a battlefield and your paperwork will not be helpful at this time." Ultimately, the town's volunteer zoning administrator stepped in, filled out all the forms and then went house to house making sure she had done the forms correctly, so the homeowners c