Hope for Haiti Now

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Hope for Haiti Now
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Also known asHope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief
Genre Telethon
Created by George Clooney
Wyclef Jean
Joel Gallen [1]
Developed byGeorge Clooney
Wyclef Jean
Joel Gallen
MTV Networks [1]
Presented byGeorge Clooney
Anderson Cooper
Wyclef Jean
Country of origin Haiti
United Kingdom
United States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerGeorge Clooney [1] Joel Gallen [2]
Running time2 hours
Production companyMTV Networks
Original release
ReleaseJanuary 22, 2010 (2010-01-22)

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 (January 23, 2010 from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. UTC). The telethon was the most widely distributed telethon in history. [3] 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. [4] [5] There were also live reports from Haiti.

Contents

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. [6] The telethon was patterned after the form begun with the 2001 America: A Tribute to Heroes program and continued with the 2005 Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast .

Funds raised by the telethon and from the sale of an accompanying album and video, which was immediately made available for pre-order on iTunes, were distributed to seven non-profit organizations doing relief work in Haiti. [6]

Recipients

Funds were distributed to the following organizations with humanitarian operations in Haiti: [6]

In 2012 The New York Times reported that a forensic audit conducted by the New York Attorney General's office found that much of the money distributed to the Yéle Haiti organization from the telethon was retained by founder Wyclef Jean and his associates for their own benefit. [7]

Audience and proceeds raised

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. [8]

On January 23, it was reported that the telethon had raised over US$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. [9] On January 25 the figure was revised to $61 million. [8]

Viewers were encouraged to donate online, calling toll-free (1-877-99-HAITI), by texting or by mail. Donations were accepted up to six months after the broadcast. [8]

Participants

Wyclef Jean hosted the concert in New York City, with George Clooney in Los Angeles and Anderson Cooper in Haiti. [10]

Rihanna performed a song titled "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)", together with Jay-Z and U2's The Edge and Bono from London. [11]

In San Francisco, Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon appealed for donations. [12]

Appearance order

The telethon began and ended with images of victims in Haiti. Presented in a format similar to 2001's America: A Tribute to Heroes , the two-hour broadcast 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 (8 p.m. U.S. ET/1 a.m. UTC) and are based on the CBS airing in the US. Descriptions are mostly from the MTV blog.

Hope for Haiti Now (2010)
TimeLocation (type)PeopleDescription
0:00:04Los Angeles [10] Alicia Keys [12] "Prelude to a Kiss" [12]
0:03:48Los Angeles (live) [12] George Clooney [12] speech: introduction
0:05:13London [10] [12] Coldplay [12] "A Message 2010" [12]
0:09:17Los Angeles [12] Halle Berry [12] speech: story [12] of Monley Elize
0:10:56New York (live) [12] Bruce Springsteen [12] with some members of The Sessions Band [13] "We Shall Overcome"
0:13:47(phone bank)phone bank: slow pan [12]
0:14:09Haiti Anderson Cooper report [12]
0:16:21Los Angeles[ citation needed ] Leonardo DiCaprio [12] speech: doctor's setbacks [12]
0:17:49Los Angeles [10] Stevie Wonder [12] with choir"A Time 2 Love" / "Bridge over Troubled Water" [12]
0:21:47New York Wyclef Jean speech: in English and Haitian Creole [12]
0:23:36New York [10] Shakira [12] with The Roots "I'll Stand by You"
0:27:32(phone bank) Reese Witherspoon [12] phone bank: call [12]
0:28:36Haiti [12] Anderson Cooper report: orphanage director [12]
0:31:43Los Angeles [10] John Legend [12] "Motherless Child" [12]
0:35:54New York[ citation needed ] Jon Stewart speech: survivors from the rubble [12]
0:36:57New York [10] Mary J. Blige [12] "Hard Times Come Again No More" [12]
0:40:55(phone bank) Samuel L. Jackson speech: in front of phone bank [12]
0:42:01Haiti (recorded) Ray LaMontagne photos and short clips (background song "Shelter")
0:43:39Los AngelesMickelson Civil [14] speech: by a Haitian citizen
0:45:12Los Angeles [10] [12] Taylor Swift [12] "Breathless" (by Better Than Ezra) [12] [15]
0:49:01Haiti ?clip: Day 1; Day 6[ citation needed ]
0:50:16Los Angeles[ citation needed ] Nicole Kidman [12] speech: story of Jeannette and Roger
0:51:32Los Angeles [10] Christina Aguilera [12] "Lift Me Up" [12]
0:55:17(phone bank) Julia Roberts phone bank: call[ citation needed ]
0:56:26Haiti (recorded) [12] Anderson Cooper [12] clip: streets of downtown Port-au-Prince [12]
0:58:08(phone bank)phone bank
0:58:22London[ citation needed ] Robert Pattinson [12] speech: [12] on Maxine Fallon
0:59:16New York [10] Sting with The Roots [12] and Chris Botti on trumpet[ citation needed ]"Driven to Tears" [12]
1:02:58San Francisco [12] Matt Damon and Clint Eastwood [12] speech: peacekeepers who lost their lives [12]
1:04:11London [10] [12] Beyoncé with Chris Martin on piano [12] "Halo" [12]
1:07:44(phone bank) Steven Spielberg [12] phone bank: call with Presbyterian pastor [12]
1:10:07Los Angeles Morgan Freeman speech: poem by Kalamu ya Salaam; [12]
1:11:17Los Angeles [10] Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock, and Keith Urban [12] "Lean on Me" [12]
1:14:54Haiti (live) [12] Anderson Cooper [12] report: interview with teenage girl [12] (Bea) rescued the first day
1:17:03New York (live) [12] Bill Clinton speech: special envoy/Clinton Bush Haiti Fund [12]
1:19:07New York [10] Madonna [12] with choir"Like a Prayer" [12]
1:22:39Los Angeles Ben Stiller speech: schools in Haiti [12]
1:24:02Haiti (recorded) Sanjay Gupta clip: makeshift medical facilities [12]
1:25:18Haiti (live) Sanjay Gupta with Anderson Cooperreport: lack of basic antibiotics [12]
1:27:03Los Angeles (live) Catherine Porter [ citation needed ]Speech: A Haitian-American woman talks about her planned adoption of 2 year old Amalia
1:28:07Los Angeles [10] Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris featuring Charlie Sexton [12] "Hallelujah" [12]
1:32:22(phone bank) Taylor Swift phone bank: call
1:32:51Los Angeles (live) [12] Muhammad Ali and Chris Rock [12] speech: Chris reads message by Ali [12]
1:34:15New York [10] Jennifer Hudson [12] with The Roots [ citation needed ]"Let It Be" [12]
1:38:10Haiti (live) Anderson Cooper report: interview with boy Monley Elize and International Medical Corps nurse
1:39:50Los Angeles (live) Brad Pitt [12] speech: intro for Haitian singer Emeline Michel [12]
1:40:31Los Angeles [10] Emeline Michel [12] "Many Rivers to Cross" [12]
1:43:31Los Angeles (live) Tom Hanks [12] speech: Farina L'Enjou,[ citation needed ] who spent 60 hours looking for his family [12]
1:45:08London (recorded) [16] Jay-Z, Rihanna, The Edge, and Bono [12] [16] "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)" [11] (produced by Swizz Beatz and Declan Gaffney) [17]
1:49:35(phone bank) Stevie Wonder phone bank: call
1:50:12Los Angeles Julia Roberts speech: Daphne's baby
1:51:21Los Angeles [10] Dave Matthews and Neil Young [12] "Alone and Forsaken" [12] (by Hank Williams)[ citation needed ]
1:54:51Los Angeles (live) Denzel Washington [12] speech: long but possible; [12] Martin Luther King quote
1:55:39New York [10] Wyclef Jean "Rivers of Babylon" / "Yéle"; Wyclef & Melky Jean duet [12]
1:59:50Haitiphoto

Locations of performers announced by USA Today :

Celebrity phone operators

Celebrity phone bank operators in alphabetical order (by surname): [10]

Coverage

Discography

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 (Haiti Mon Amour)" and is priced at $7.99. The full two-hour video of the event is priced at $2.99. [9] [30]

Album

YearTitlePeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US CAN NZ DEN
2010 Hope for Haiti Now 1197

Singles

YearTitlePeak chart positionsAlbum
US
[31] 		CAN
[32] 		UK
[33] 		IRE
[34] 		NOR
[35] 		SWE
[36]
2010"A Message 2010"——88——— Hope for Haiti Now
"Hallelujah"1359146—10
"Let It Be"98—97———
"Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)"16641363

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