While emergency efforts bring immediate relief to Haiti, Craig Juntunen, founder
of Chances for Children, launched the "Haiti Renewal Fund" January 19.
The fund, designed to assist in a fresh renewal of the devastated nation of
Haiti, opens with an initial matching grant of $2 million from Jackson Hole
residents Lynn and Foster Friess, drawn from
donations specifically designated to the fund.
The National Christian Foundation
will receive contributions and distribute grants from the Fund.
Two ways to donate to the Fund:
- Make a new contribution now using this "Donate now" button:
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More about the Haiti Renewal Fund
"In a few weeks or months the enormous worldwide relief effort in Haiti will
meet food, water and shelter needs, but what then?" said Craig Juntunen, who will be
raising additional monies for the fund.
Juntunen's Chances for
Children foundation, operates an orphanage near Port-au-Prince and last year
placed 30 Haitian orphans in adoptive families. It will expand to meet the
soaring number of newly-orphaned children and also encourage
Cure International, an
organization that operates hospitals in the nearby Dominican Republic, Uganda,
Malawi and Honduras, in its goal to open a new children's hospital in Haiti.
Water Mission
International adds water purification units.
Georgia-based The National Christian Foundation, the fund administrator, will be
advised on allocation of funds by a diverse team of leaders including; Phoenix
attorney, sculptor and Cure International board member Marilyn Quayle; her
husband former Vice President Dan Quayle; "Charlie's Angel" star Cheryl Ladd; and Christian
philanthropist Foster Friess. Mr. Friess will be the official Advisor to the
Fund under NCF's Program Guidelines.
"So much well-intentioned funding is wasted in corruption and institutional
overhead," said Juntunen, who serves without salary. "We are grateful for the
oversight of these compassionate individuals and for the long track records of
success and fiscal responsibility of the charities involved."
Juntunen authored Both Ends Burning, chronicling his personal transformation
from a self-serving life to adopting three young children from Haiti in 2006
with his wife Kathi: Espie, Quinn and Amelec, who turned nine January 17.
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