involved in the relief effort and I'm pleased that their president, Danny Abraham (ph), could be with us today.
Major Internet companies to Yahoo! to
Amazon.com to
eBay.com are donatiing prime space on their home pages to the Red Cross, Care and other organizations. I'm especially pleased that Yahoo! and
Broadcast.com are running public service announcements as a way of getting more people involved.
These are only a few of the major contributions that we're hearing about and that NGOs are receiving.
: All told, I believe NGOs have already received $25 million in cash in kind donations. This is setting, yet again, a new standard in corporate, indeed, international citizenship.
I cannot tell you how proud I am every time I travel around the world on behalf of our country and I see what American corporations are doing, not only to provide jobs which is the first and most important way to help any country, but also by setting an example of philanthropy and corporate citizenship that is literally helping to transform the way business is conducted and what can happen in a society.
That's why we want to encourage you to continue to be creative about ways you can make a difference. In a few minutes, we're going to find that cash contributions, as you'll hear from our speakers, are often the most effective way to help in an ever-changing situation.
But every donation counts and every donation is helping. I want to say a special word though about Macedonia and Albania, because here perhaps as much as any way, the business community in America and your counterparts in Europe and Japan and elsewhere can make a very big difference.
I just met with the Macedonian ambassador and representatives of the Macedonian government to hear first-hand the impact that this crisis is making on their economy and their country. I thank them on behalf of the president and the American people for what they are doing. w hundreds of thousands of dis hereby putting people out
