You can donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting Haiti to 90999.
This is really-really cool and it appears that $5M has already been raised; a billion will probably be needed. Once you send the txt message, you will get a message back asking you to confirm your donation to which you must reply YES before the $10 is added to your phone bill. http://www.redcross.org/
If someone else pays your phone bill (like if you have a company phone) you may want to donate a different way. For example, The company I work for, Quest Software partnered with Iridium to donate a bunch of Satellite phones and airtime to Haitian officials to coordinate relief efforts. And another example is a video from Jimmy Buffett created to raise awarness about the Red Cross’s text message donation program. The way I look at it, this could be my family needing help.
Awesome idea. Thanks for posting this Bob.