#hack4nepal

Geeklist #hack4good partners with Entrepreneurs, Hackers & Artists for Nepal

CALL TO ARMS - ALL Geeklisters, Hack4good'ers and Geeklist Corps of Developers... #Hack4good to #hack4nepal with EHAC.

The disaster in Nepal is NOT going to be solved by a few days of sympathy. They need long term sustained funding and solutions. We partnered this week with Bonobos CEO, Andy Dunn (@dunn) to make a difference.

We are inviting you to join us in 2 very specific things to help:

Donate with us and show the world how Hackers and Entrepreneurs bring together funds here: http://bit.ly/hack4nepal

Hack with us and our Hack4good ambassador In Nepal - Join, Hack, add ideas, form teams HERE: https://geekli.st/hackathon/Nepal

Let's hack and raise funds and solve problems immediately for Nepal! Over $36,000 has already been raised in 2 days. Drive everyone you can here to donate! We are getting every tech company, leader and worker we can do donate now. Here: http://bit.ly/hack4nepal on Indiegogo Life (no fees). 100% goes to Oxfam right now and once we pass a threshold we will donate 100% to the next most involved on the ground agency.

Here is a guest post from Andy Dunn @dunn of Bonobos... Join us and help rebuild Nepal!

Entrepreneurs, Hackers & Artists for [Crisis]

Because Sympathy Without Action is an Empty Vessel Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis: bad things. We are gripped globally for a few news cycles, then we move on.

What else are we supposed to do?

As I sat in my hotel room in Mexico City watching news of the earthquake in Nepal, I thought the answer was nothing. Just like it was for 9/11, Katrina, the tsunami, Haiti. I sat feeling sorry us, for our helplessness. I tried to imagine what it might be like to buried alive, and I despaired anew that we live on a planet where this can happen.

Then it dawned on me: do something. Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action. I walked over to my computer, started an Indiegogo campaign called Entrepreneurs for Nepal, emailed friends, and launched on social. Within two days, we raised $35,000.

People started reaching out. One of them was Reuben. He suggested uniting the hackers, from their #Hack4Good movement, to help. Their goal: to unite developers to hack a way to rapidly spread our link out to the world. As Reuben and I discussed this, we realized that we were running an experiment with potential. We decided to unite for Nepal and change the name to an acronym: EHAC.

The mission is to make us all feel less helpless.

The vision is to translate sympathy into action in times of crisis.

The strategy is to do this via:

a leaderless, de-centralized organization harnessing global awareness into trustworthy, impactful financial contributions by decreasing friction to giving globally via the rapidly evolving social web Why should we do this?