Racer Ex 

Here's Wyclef's relief fund.

You make the call.

WHOOOSSHHH...

Your right. I stand corrected. PCAD is funny. On a serious note, Lance said, his foundation is donating to this tragedy. I think it does encourage others to do the same. There is nothing but good, that can come of it. I think it's human nature for someone who does a good deed to want others to know. That doesn't diminish the deed itself.....Now go donate a few dollars to help... This was meant as a positive post..Butto got me off course, my apologies!!

patentcad

Correct.

Racer Ex 

I thought you said HE was donating the money.

Here's the actual statement:

“On behalf of Livestrong and everybody at our organization we’d like to pledge $250,000 for the relief efforts down there for two primary organizations: Partners In Health – great friends of ours doing great work in that country – and also Doctors Without Borders.

You do know that's not his money, correct?

Whatever. Doctor's Without Borders is a great organization.

GP

So....0?

Quel

I was thinking about donating, but BF has decided that it isn't cool to donate because I'm just trying to make myself feel better. So I decided to buy a new jersey instead.

ruck

Came to post that it's not his money but Racer Ex beat me to it, if it was his money it'd be one thing this is just a re-appropriation of other people's money.

wanders

So you're saying since I bought a braclet, Lance is giving my money to Haiti.

Whooosshhh..., you don't have to thank me.

Nachoman

That's true. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would rather see their livestrong donations go to cancer related charity.

Pedaleur

Did you also see "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"?

Racer Ex 

Because of the non-profit filing you'll notice Livestrong is giving the money to two health care related non profits, and not to any actual relief organizations.

So Wanders is giving both time AND money.

Daytrip

I think you guys are getting a little too deeply into how the sausage is made. It's a symbolic gesture, designed in part to generate more donations to LiveStrong, presumably by people who would like to use it as their vehicle for helping the people of Haiti. We're talking about people's lives here--not egos or tax status. That's the message I take from the announcement.

While I was touched by botto's link to the company donating 10% of its receipts to the relief effort, the whole announcement smelled to me more of a firm trying to promote its product and sales. Not to take anything away from the gesture, which I assume is genuine, but it doesn't measure up, IMO, to what Armstrong is doing.

wanders

I just heard Trek wanted to donate some bikes to help out but Haiti refused them after concerns about some bottom bracket issues.

This is on you waterrockets.

guadzilla

Excellent!

a_phat_beat

agreed. throw governmental turmoil in there as well, or is that what you meant?

DScott

Yeah, I get all warm and gooey inside whenever I hear of famous people pledging other people's money for disaster assistance to people they previously paid no attention to and couldn't have cared less about.

Haiti has the unique distinction of being THE poorest country in the entire Western Hemisphere.

How did The Lance let such a thing happen? Good to see he's finally picking up the slack.

icyclist 

"I have not seen any other statements of concern from other cyclist."

There are no other cyclists of Armstrong's stature, so if they are donating something, it won't make news.

telebianchi

Sorry. Maybe it was his sister Janey, the one with short hair, I saw on the singlespeed. Don't know whether or not she's donated.

Had this been posted in FOO, I'd have given a thumbs up. () But it was posted in Road Cycling and you brought up issues that have nothing to do with cycling, Haiti or LA's good deed:

Your post sounded like you were trying to stick one to the "LA haters" on BF. I apologize if I missed the part where you were trying to promote charitable giving.

Cat4Lifer

pretty much, yeah

bretthammy

I'm naturally warm and gooey inside

Racer Ex 

Yep.

spry

Play that Wyclef Jean video with Shakara

WHOOOSSHHH...

Maybe English is not your first language. Try reading post #27.On second thought have your mother read it to you, just in case it's a comprehension problem. I believe I used the word foundation, while they use the word organization. They are basically the same.. Sheesh, where the hell do some of you bozo's come from??
Don't take offense. If you think I am making reference to you because of some of the idiotic comments above, rest assured I am... Damn, this will probably get me another one of those infractions..It's just hard to keep my mouth shut around such stupidity!!

mollusk

As a US taxpayer my "organization" is doing a lot.

spry

that best sums it up^