MLK Day

Posting will be light today as Xconomy’s offices are closed in observation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.

For those of you looking for a way to pitch in in your own city or town, Serve.gov has a searchable database of volunteer opportunities. If you or your organization would like to aid the disaster recovery effort in Haiti, or to make a donation of goods to the effort, start by registering your offer with the Center for International Disaster Information.  If you’d like to make a cash donation, InterAction has a list of agencies that are accepting them. The newly formed Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is accepting donations as well.

So have a great day, however you spend it. We’ll be back to work first thing tomorrow.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.