Hope for Haiti Now


Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief was a charity telethon held on January 22, 2010 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The telethon was the most widely distributed telethon in history. The event was broadcast from Studio 36 at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York and a private club, The Hospital, in London. There were also live reports from Haiti.
Initial plans for the telethon were announced by MTV Networks on January 15, 2010, three days after the 2010 Haiti earthquake struck on January 12 that is assumed to have claimed the lives of about 200,000 people. The event was one of a number of humanitarian responses to the earthquake. Processing of the telethon's donations was in the hands of the Entertainment Industry Foundation. The telethon was patterned after the form begun with the 2001 ' program and continued with the 2005 '.
Funds raised by the telethon and from the sale of its album and video – immediately made available for pre-order on iTunes – are to be distributed to seven non-profit organizations doing relief work in Haiti.

Recipients

Funds are to be distributed to the following organizations with humanitarian operations in Haiti:
The event drew an estimated audience of 83 million viewers in the United States between the initial broadcast and web and mobile streams throughout the weekend.
On January 23, it was reported that the telethon had raised over 58 million, not including corporate and large private donors or sales of the album and video. The amount is a record for donations by the general public to a telethon for disaster-relief. On January 25 the figure was revised to $61 million.
Viewers were encouraged to donate online, calling toll-free, by texting or by mail. Donations were accepted up to six months after the broadcast.

Participants

hosted the concert in New York City, with George Clooney in Los Angeles and Anderson Cooper in Haiti.
Rihanna revealed on January 21 that she would perform a new song titled "Stranded ", together with Jay-Z and U2's The Edge and Bono for the telethon in London.
In San Francisco, Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon appealed for donations.

Appearance order

The telethon began and ended with images of victims in Haiti. Presented in a format similar to 2001's , the intervening two hours consisted of musical performances with speeches, reports from Haiti, and conversations between celebrity operators and donors calling in.
Times in the table are given from the beginning of the show and are based on the CBS airing in the US.
Descriptions are mostly from the MTV blog.
TimeLocation PeopleDescription
Los Angeles"Prelude to a Kiss"
Los Angeles speech: introduction
LondonColdplay"A Message 2010"
Los Angelesspeech: story of Monley Elize
New York with some members of The Sessions Band"We Shall Overcome"
phone bank: slow pan
Haitireport
Los Angelesspeech: doctor's setbacks
Los Angeles with choir"A Time 2 Love" / "Bridge over Troubled Water"
New Yorkspeech: in English and Haitian Creole
New YorkShakira with The Roots"I'll Stand by You"
phone bank: call
HaitiAnderson Cooperreport: orphanage director
Los Angeles"Motherless Child"
New Yorkspeech: survivors from the rubble
New York"Hard Times Come Again No More"
speech: in front of phone bank
Haiti photos and short clips
Los Angelesspeech: by a Haitian citizen
Los Angeles"Breathless"
Haiticlip: Day 1; Day 6
Los Angelesspeech: story of Jeannette and Roger
Los Angeles"Lift Me Up"
phone bank: call
Haiti clip: streets of downtown Port-au-Prince
phone bank
Londonspeech: on Maxine Fallon
New YorkSting with The Roots and Chris Botti on trumpet"Driven to Tears"
San Francisco and Clint Eastwoodspeech: peacekeepers who lost their lives
LondonBeyoncé with Chris Martin on piano"Halo"
phone bank: call with Presbyterian pastor
Los Angelesspeech: poem by Kalamu ya Salaam;
Los Angeles"Lean on Me"
Haiti report: interview with teenage girl rescued the first day
New York speech: special envoy/Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
New YorkMadonna with choir"Like a Prayer"
Los Angelesspeech: schools in Haiti
Haiti clip: makeshift medical facilities
Haiti with Anderson Cooperreport: lack of basic antibiotics
Los Angeles Speech: A Haitian-American woman talks about her planned adoption of 2 year old Amalia
Los Angeles and Matt Morris featuring Charlie Sexton"Hallelujah"
phone bank: call
Los Angeles and Chris Rockspeech: Chris reads message by Ali
New York with The Roots"Let It Be"
Haiti report: interview with boy Monley Elize and International Medical Corps nurse
Los Angeles speech: intro for Haitian singer Emeline Michel
Los Angeles"Many Rivers to Cross"
Los Angeles speech: Farina L'Enjou, who spent 60 hours looking for his family
London Jay-Z, Rihanna, The Edge, and Bono"Stranded "
phone bank: call
Los Angelesspeech: Daphne's baby
Los Angeles and Neil Young"Alone and Forsaken"
Los Angeles speech: long but possible; Martin Luther King quote
New York"Rivers of Babylon" / "Yéle"; Wyclef & Melky Jean duet
Haitiphoto

Locations of performers announced by USA Today:
Celebrity phone bank operators in alphabetical order :
The digital album Hope for Haiti Now set a record as the largest one-day album pre-order in iTunes history, and became the top-selling iTunes album in 18 countries. The digital album has since become available at Amazon.com and Rhapsody. The album features 19 live performances from the broadcast as well as a pre-recorded version of "Stranded " and is priced at $7.99. The full two-hour video of the event is priced at $2.99.

Album

Singles