Help Can't Wait

To address humanitarian crises around the world, musical organizations at Yale have organized several benefit concerts to raise funds for relief.

The most recent "Help Can't Wait" benefit concert took place in April 2008. All proceeds were given to major charities providing services to the victims of the earthquakes in China, the typhoon in Myanmar, and the tornadoes in the United States.

To ensure that these three disaster areas would be served, benefits were shared by the American Red Cross, Save the Children, and AmeriCares.

The first Help Can't Wait benefit concert was organized in response to the tsunami and earthquakes in Southeast Asia and the Pacific in 2004. The second, in 2005, devoted its proceeds to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina.