Want to help but don't know where to begin? Check out our top tips for raising awareness and funds for the cause:

Create a community. Gather together the people who have ideas, want to help, show up and work hard. It may be an existing service club, or perhaps you'll want to start your own. Make it inclusive: include the drama club, football team, Girls Gone Green club, marching band, French club, and anyone who can work for the cause.

Set a goal. What's the amount you want to raise? By what date?

Creativity counts. Engage people—as many as possible from school and community—with a sense of purpose and humor. Got talent? Put it to work by auctioning your services.

• Shoot family photos (remember dogs and cats, too), cook for the cause, perform a private recital, clean yards and tool sheds, and wash cars.
• Offer tutorials on activities many adults find utterly confusing: texting, using social media and downloading music.
• Everyone needs heft around the house: enlist the strength of your football team.
• Know any control freaks? Ask them to organize cabinets, closets, desks and drawers in return for donations.
• Choreograph a routine for the basketball team to perform at halftime and pass buckets for donations.
• Start a babysitting club. Maybe a local restaurant will donate dinners so clients can have a "date night" for Haiti?
• Ask your principal and teachers to help. Have a strict dress code? Who wouldn't pay $5 bucks to wear pjs or a grass skirt for a day?
• Plan a live game of faculty "Jeopardy," a school-wide charades night, talent show, or film screening.
• Enlist your teachers for an "Evening in Haiti" benefit with food, music, geography, history and a language coach to teach a bit of Haitian Creole.
• Make it a contest. Divide the school into upper grades and lower grades to see who has more fundraising muscle. Challenge a rival school to see who can raise more.
• What's happening with your drama club? Ask them to offer a benefit performance, complete with Haitian music that dances people to their seats.

Well, you get the idea. Be creative and inspired! Remember to "make the ask" for people to join, help, donate.

And, don't forget that this is a challenge grant fundraising effort. Make sure people know that every donated dollar will be matched, dollar for dollar. Not only does every amount count, it doubles in value through the challenge.