Hope for Haiti Now explained

Alt Name:Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief
Genre:Telethon
Creator:George Clooney
Wyclef Jean
Joel Gallen[1]
Developer:George Clooney
Wyclef Jean
Joel Gallen
MTV Networks
Presenter:George Clooney
Anderson Cooper
Wyclef Jean
Country:Haiti
United Kingdom
United States
Language:English
Executive Producer:George Clooney Joel Gallen[2]
Runtime:2 hours
Company:MTV Networks

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.

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 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:

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 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.

Rihanna performed a song titled "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)", together with Jay-Z and U2's The Edge and Bono from London.[10]

In San Francisco, Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon appealed for donations.[11]

Appearance order

The telethon began and ended with images of victims in Haiti. Presented in a format similar to 2001's , 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)! Time !! Location (type) !! People !! Description
Los Angeles "Prelude to a Kiss"
Los Angeles (live) speech: introduction
London "A Message 2010"
Los Angeles speech: story of Monley Elize
New York (live) with some members of The Sessions Band[12] "We Shall Overcome"
(phone bank) phone bank: slow pan
Haiti report
Los Angeles speech: doctor's setbacks
Los Angeles with choir "A Time 2 Love" / "Bridge over Troubled Water"
New York speech: in English and Haitian Creole
New York "I'll Stand by You"
(phone bank) phone bank: call
Haiti report: orphanage director
Los Angeles "Motherless Child"
New York speech: survivors from the rubble
New York "Hard Times Come Again No More"
(phone bank) speech: in front of phone bank
Haiti (recorded) photos and short clips (background song "Shelter")
Los Angeles [13] speech: by a Haitian citizen
Los Angeles "Breathless" (by Better Than Ezra)[14]
Haiti clip: Day 1; Day 6
Los Angeles speech: story of Jeannette and Roger
Los Angeles "Lift Me Up"
(phone bank) phone bank: call
Haiti (recorded) clip: streets of downtown Port-au-Prince
(phone bank) phone bank
London speech: on Maxine Fallon
New York Sting with The Roots and Chris Botti on trumpet "Driven to Tears"
San Francisco speech: peacekeepers who lost their lives
London Beyoncé with Chris Martin on piano "Halo"
(phone bank) phone bank: call with Presbyterian pastor
Los Angeles speech: poem by Kalamu ya Salaam;
Los Angeles "Lean on Me"
Haiti (live) report: interview with teenage girl (Bea) rescued the first day
New York (live) speech: special envoy/Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
New York Madonna with choir "Like a Prayer"
Los Angeles speech: schools in Haiti
Haiti (recorded) clip: makeshift medical facilities
Haiti (live) with Anderson Cooper report: lack of basic antibiotics
Los Angeles (live) Speech: A Haitian-American woman talks about her planned adoption of 2 year old Amalia
Los Angeles "Hallelujah"
(phone bank) phone bank: call
Los Angeles (live) speech: Chris reads message by Ali
New York "Let It Be"
Haiti (live) report: interview with boy Monley Elize and International Medical Corps nurse
Los Angeles (live) speech: intro for Haitian singer Emeline Michel
Los Angeles "Many Rivers to Cross"
Los Angeles (live) speech: Farina L'Enjou, who spent 60 hours looking for his family
London (recorded)[15] "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)" (produced by Swizz Beatz and Declan Gaffney)[16]
(phone bank) phone bank: call
Los Angeles speech: Daphne's baby
Los Angeles "Alone and Forsaken" (by Hank Williams)
Los Angeles (live) speech: long but possible; Martin Luther King quote
New York "Rivers of Babylon" / "Yéle"; Wyclef & Melky Jean duet
Haiti photo

Locations of performers announced by USA Today:

Celebrity phone operators

Celebrity phone bank operators in alphabetical order (by surname):[17]

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]

Singles

YearTitlePeak chart positionsAlbum
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2010"A Message 2010"——88———Hope for Haiti Now
"Hallelujah"1359146—10
"Let It Be"98—97———
"Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)"16641363

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 'Hope For Haiti Now' Telethon Airs Tonight At 8 P.M.. January 22, 2010. March 1, 2010. Jocelyn. Vena. MTV.com. MTV. March 28, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100328150243/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1630214/20100122/story.jhtml. dead.
  2. News: Within Days, a Global Benefit Takes Shape. January 22, 2010. Michael. Cieply. New York Times. February 24, 2017. May 2, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180502231638/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/television/22telethon.html?pagewanted=print. live.
  3. Web site: David. Knox. Airdate: Hope for Haiti Now. tvtonight.com.au. January 22, 2010. January 22, 2010. October 24, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141024162803/http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/01/airdate-hope-for-haiti-now.html. live.
  4. Davies, Rodrigo and Rogers, Georgie, "U2, Jay Z and Rihanna team up to perform a special benefit track", BBC 6 Music, January 22, 2010
  5. Chittenden, Maurice and Hastings, Chris, "Haiti earthquake concert raises £35m", The Sunday Times, January 24, 2010
  6. Web site: FAQs . January 22, 2010 . Hope for Haiti Now .
  7. News: In Haiti, Little Can Be Found of a Hip-Hop Artists Charity . New York Times . Deborah Sontag . October 11, 2012 . October 10, 2021 . February 3, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170203080812/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/world/americas/quake-hit-haiti-gains-little-as-wyclef-jean-charity-spends-much.html?pagewanted=all . live .
  8. Kaufman, Gil et al. 'Hope For Haiti Now' Draws 83 Million Viewers In U.S., MTV News, January 25, 2010
  9. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1630365/20100122/rihanna.jhtml 'Hope For Haiti Now' Sets New Record For Money Raised By Disaster-Relief Telethon"
  10. Web site: Rihanna to perform 'Stranded' in Haiti telethon . Yahoo! News. January 22, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100125174342/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_en_ot/eu_norway_rihanna_haiti . January 25, 2010.
  11. Web site: Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief . January 22, 2010 . Kyle . Anderson . . . January 23, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100311001429/http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/01/22/hope-for-haiti-live-blog . March 11, 2010 .
  12. [Charlie Giordano]
  13. Web site: Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief - MSN TV News . February 12, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100125192642/http://tv.msn.com/hope-for-haiti/series/ . January 25, 2010 . dead .
  14. Web site: Taylor Swift "Breathless" . . January 23, 2010 . January 26, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100126072140/http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/474735/taylor-swift-breathless-live.jhtml . dead .
  15. News: Stars line up for Haiti benefit concert . January 22, 2010 . January 22, 2010 . . BBC . January 23, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100123052342/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8475971.stm . live .
  16. http://www.u2.com/news/title/stranded-haiti-mon-amour-to-raise-funds-for-haiti- 'Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)' raising funds for Haiti
  17. News: George Clooney explains 'Hope for Haiti' celebrity phone bank . Ann . Oldenburg . USAToday.com . . January 22, 2010 . January 22, 2010 . July 7, 2012 . https://archive.today/20120707154533/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/01/george-clooney-explains-hope-for-haiti-celebrity-phone-bank/1 . live .
  18. https://www.youtube.com/youtube YouTube channel on YouTube
  19. Web site: MSN | Outlook, Office, Skype, Bing, Breaking News, and Latest Videos . November 24, 2021 . November 24, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211124095640/https://www.msn.com/ . live .
  20. News: 'Hope for Haiti' to dominate the airwaves . Lisa . Respers France . . January 22, 2010 . January 22, 2010 . September 24, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190924193440/http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/22/haiti.telethon/index.html . live .
  21. Web site: C5N trasmitirá el show televisivo a beneficio de Haití. February 25, 2010. March 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212715/http://www.iprofesional.com/notas/93252-C5N-trasmitira-el-show-televisivo-a-beneficio-de-Haiti.html. live.
  22. https://www.ctvnews.ca/celebrity-telethon-for-haiti-to-air-friday-night-1.474794 Celebrity telethon for Haiti to air Friday on CTV
  23. News: For et stjernelag! . Kongsli Lundervold, Linn . . January 20, 2010 . January 22, 2010 . da . June 4, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604174440/http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/01/22/kjendis/george_clooney/beyonce/rihanna/10049258/ . live .
  24. Web site: NRK3 sender "Hope for Haiti Now" . January 22, 2010 . January 23, 2010 . January 24, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100124142653/http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/kultur/1.6958819 . live .
  25. http://posting.mtv.pt/noticias/Bono-Sting-Timberlake-Aguilera-Keys-MTV-Haiti/ Retrieved 1-24-10
  26. Web site: Antena 3 transmite LIVE teledonul "Hope for Haiti Now", alături de cele mai importante televiziuni din lume . January 23, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100124073146/http://www.antena3.ro/stiri/cultura/antena-3-transmite-live-teledonul-hope-for-haiti-now-alaturi-de-cele-mai-importante-televiziuni-din-lume_90192.html . January 24, 2010 . dead .
  27. News: Musikartister går ihop för att hjälpa de drabbade i jordbävningen. . mtv.se . January 20, 2010 . January 23, 2010 . sv . January 30, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100130040839/http://www.mtv.se/nyheter/hope-for-haiti-telethon/ . live .
  28. News: Artisterna i kö för att spela på Clooneys Haiti-gala . Suneson, Peter . . January 21, 2010 . January 23, 2010 . sv . https://web.archive.org/web/20100123005817/http://www.expressen.se/noje/musik/1.1853143/artisterna-i-ko-for-att-spela-pa-clooneys-haiti-gala . January 23, 2010 . dead .
  29. Web site: New York Times: "Details of 'Hope for Haiti' Telethon Are Announced", January 15, 2010. . January 15, 2010 . January 21, 2010 . January 20, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100120061135/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/details-of-hope-for-haiti-telethon-are-announced/ . live .
  30. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0035Q2HNY Video product description
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  33. Web site: BBC - Want to know who is Number 1 this week?. December 21, 2019. February 15, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190215220438/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles. live.
  34. Web site: >> IRMA << Irish Charts - Singles, Albums & Compilations >> . June 12, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050417042033/http://www.irma.ie/aucharts.asp . April 17, 2005 .
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