Sample letter, courtesy of opensiliconvalley.com (Excellent website to check out regarding different ways of helping out in the aftermath of the quake)

Dear Sir/Madam,

As you are aware, a devastating earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, hit Pakistan on Saturday, October 8th. This is the worst national disaster in Pakistan's history; and it is fast becoming one of the deadliest earthquakes on record. As many as 40,000 people have died while over 50,000 people are injured and 4.5 million people are left homeless.

Responding to the scale of this disaster, the following companies have already establishing donations or donation matching programs:

?X Altera
?X AMD
?X Applied Materials
?X Bearing Point
?X Cadence Design Systems
?X Cisco Systems
?X Fujitsu Computer Systems
?X Fujitsu Microelectronics
?X GE
?X IBM
?X Intel Corporation
?X Juniper Networks
?X Marsh @ McLennan
?X Microsoft
?X Motorola
?X Nokia
?X Oracle Corporation
?X Qualcomm
?X Risk Management Solutions
?X SUN Microsystems
?X Wells Fargo
?X Yahoo!

I request that also consider joining in the rescue & relief effort on going in the affected areas. Many local and international relief agencies like the Mercy Corps mercycorps.org), Relief International ri.org), Islamic Relief Worldwide irw.org), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent ifrc.org) have a presence at ground zero in Pakistan. A donation matching program can be established with any one of these or other organizations.

Please let me know if I can provide any assistance.

Thank you,