Helping Haiti Heal, the fundraiser for Partners in Health, has reached a total of well over $66,000!! And, what is more, we’ve decided to extend the deadline for the Signature Items! That means you have until February 6th, 11:59 PM EST to donate and still be eligible to win some of the awesome prizes.

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Saturday Jan 30 at 2 pm = amazing livestream 4 Helping Haiti Heal: http://bit.ly/6NOs2d & plz giv here: http://bit.ly/6ZWpck

The Harry Potter Alliance has united with fan communities across the world, raising over $50,000 for Helping Haiti Heal! That money will charter an entire cargo plane that will bring critical life-saving supplies to thousands of Haitians and more.

Saturday January 30 at 2 pm will be another epic livestream at thehpalliance.org/haiti!!!

And we’re still going! When you donate at thehpalliance.org/haiti/prizes, you become eligible to receive one of over 200 thank you gifts based on individual donation levels. These gifts include a:

-Full UK set of seven signed Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, along with a handwritten card from the author!!!
-Signed guitar from Harry Potter actor Tom Felton’s personal collection.
-Harry Potter book signed by the Harry Potter cast (courtesy of actress Evanna Lynch)!!!
-Signed copies of Unseen Academicals and Wintersmith by author Sir Terry Pratchett!
-A signed copy of Harlequin Valentine from Neil Gaiman!
-And so much more!

We are less than $17,000 away from chartering a second plane for Partners In Health! Every little bit helps - please donate today!

What we are doing is unprecedented in bringing together the entire Harry Potter fan community with fan sites for “True Blood,” “Mad Men,” “Firefly,” “Lord of the Rings,” “The Guild,” “Ghostbusters,” as well as stars from “The Wire,” “Heroes,” and more! Join us again Saturday January 30 at 2 pm EST right here and let’s keep going!!!

It’s official, Helping Haiti Heal has raised over $40,000 in less than 48 hours! Remember, you can donate up until January 30th and still be eligible for over 200 prizes, one of which is a signed, complete set of the UK edition Harry Potter novels personally donated by J. K. Rowling herself! Check back here for updates as the donation drive continues!

Max here, HPA Ning Manager, bringing you the latest activity over at the Ning! Jodi B, Hufflepuff, has written a wonderful blog post about the personal impact yesterday’s “Helping Haiti Heal” had on her. Jodi writes:

“I just feel so proud, so alive and like I want to do more . . . Today I realized the good we can really do in the world.”

She writes of how frustrated she was with the perpetual machine of everyday life, and how “Helping Haiti Heal” allowed her to remember what was truly important:

“I had sunk into the Muggle Mindset. And this has pulled me right out of that, and I feel like dancing in the rain. If only it were raining.”

To find out more, read the post in its entirety here.

Today’s earlier  unprecedented internet event, Helping Haiti Heal, raised well over $34,000 dollars in less than 6 hours to benefit Partners in Health!

We are stunned by the generosity of everyone from all of the many fandoms that participated, and we are especially proud of all of the Harry Potter fans out there who contributed! Thank you so much!

Stay tuned, because the donation drive is not over!! You can donate up until January 30th and still be eligible for over 200 prizes, one of which is a signed, complete set of the UK edition Harry Potter novels personally donated by J. K. Rowling herself! Check back here for updates as the donation drive continues!

Our friends at Leaky say it best!

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has donated a full U.K. edition set of her books, as well as a handwritten card, to Helping Haiti Heal, the multifandom donation drive kicking off tomorrow via Webcast.

This extremely rare item joins more than 100 special gifts, including a signed book by author Neil Gaiman, five dedicated books by Sir Terry Pratchett, original conception art from the film Where the Wild Things Are, and much, much more.

Join us at 2 p.m. Eastern tomorrow at thehpalliance.org/haiti to find out more about how to donate and stand a chance to receive any of these amazing gifts! All donations will benefit Partners in Health, an humanitarian organization in Haiti that has been aiding those most ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.

Needless to say, we are pleased, proud, and amazed! Hope to see you all on Saturday!

If you would like to help promote this Saturday’s unprecedented event, Helping Haiti Heal!, you can do so by changing your Twitter avatar, your Facebook picture, or your forum icon to one of these wonderful images designed by our friends over at Leaky!  Enjoy!!!

Harry Potter fans have joined with members of fandoms from other popular books, movies, and tv series (including Heroes, Lost, True Blood, The Wire and Firefly) to create Helping Haiti Heal, a home-grown effort to contribute to the growing humanitarian aid and charitable relief activities in Haiti.

This Saturday, January 23rd, at 2 P.M. EST, HPA’s Potterwatch, PotterCast, MuggleCast, Hogwarts Radio, and FictionAlley will come together for a live fundraising webcast here on Livestream to benefit Partners in Health.  This four hour live event will feature a donation drive where donors have the opportunity to win prizes, live performances from many wizard rockers; leaders in fan communities; personal interviews with Haitian-Americans about the importance of giving to Partners In Health; human rights activists; a representative from MIT’s Media Lab discussing ways that we can donate our time using new media; and much more.

Help spread the word by Tweeting the following:

We’re Helping Haiti Heal - learn about a huge fandom event happening Sat. from 2pm to 6pm ET! http://bit.ly/5603s6 #hhh

A major part of this event will be raising funds to help those in Haiti through Partners In Health.  Countless fan sites, wizard rockers, authors, entertainers, and organizations have donated to this donation drive. A full list of items can be found on the Helping Haiti Heal website.

There is absolutely no way to describe or begin to describe what Acacia does for the Harry Potter Alliance. From putting in endless hours and unbelievable creativity around web and graphic design and web functionality, to also putting in countless hour brainstorming on how to make our projects most effective and innovative - there is so much behind the scenes work that Acacia does that no one ever knows about, except that it has and continues to make the successes we’ve had in bettering this world a reality.

In the process, Acacia has become one of my closest friends and she is not only a brilliant, genius artist whose love and passion for creation in all spheres permeates everything she does - she is also one of the most heartfelt, full of humor, and compassionate friends a person can have.

Please wish her a Happy and Healthy Birthday!!!!!!

The HPA is currently looking for members interested in joining the staff team. If you’re interested in becoming a part of the HPA staff please check the volunteers page often as it will be being updated consistently. You can get there by clicking “volunteer” at the top of the page or right here. We are currently looking for a Book Keeper, if you have any past experience or interest please apply! There will be extensive training in most aspects of the position! So apply!

Questions? Email jobs@thehpalliance.org or check the site.