Billy Wants YOU to Help Haiti

Billy just celebrated his birthday. In honor of that, he wants you to donate to Haiti. So, he's asking, "What can Billy do to get you to donate to benefit Haiti?"

Well, Billy is willing to do anything (within reason) to get you to donate money to benefit Haitian relief efforts.

So, who's Billy? He's the brother of Tiffany from I am Style-ish. Unsure of what Billy can do for you? He has some suggestions, but I'll tell you my personal favorite. He's offering photos. Prints of beautiful, beautiful photos. Billy's sister Tiffany, has joined the effort and is offering her photos as well. Check out all the details on Billy's website Billy's Birthday Mission. He prefers a donation to Doctors without Borders, but a donation to any Haitian relief effort is good.

Billy says he'll do anything to get you to donate. I don't know if "anything" has parameters. Tiffany, on the other hand, has said that if you donate at least $20 to the Haitian relief effort, she'll send you any print of hers in any size up to 8x10.

Check out Tiffany's flickr photo sets and her favorites of all her photos. Check out Billy's flickr photo sets and his favorites. A sampling of Billy's photos is below.

So was that cheesy ad speak, or what? In all seriousness, donating to Haiti is a good thing to do. Unfortunately (of fortunately, in many ways), I tend to be moderately aware of things that go on in the news without paying too much mind to the specifics of most bad things. It took Billy's campaign to get me to snap to attention and really notice the extreme nature of what's going on in Haiti. I've never met Billy, I only heard of him through his sister's blog, but his passion and personal dedication caught my attention. Thank you, Billy, for being an "agitator" in the best sense of the word! Don't forget to check out his blog.

There is something else you can do to help. Comment on this post. For every comment left on this post before 11:59 p.m. Central Time on January 31st, 2010, I personally will donate an additional $1* to Doctors Without Borders.


*Up to a max of $150.