As of Friday morning, Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti had raised more than $2 million from mobile giving, according to Albe Angel, CEO of Miami-based Give on the Go, the mobile-communications company working with the non-profit to coordinate donations.

Musician Wyclef Jean, who was born in Haiti, implores Haitians in America to "step up" in this clip from CNN. "As we sit here there are people in the dark...we are in a state of emergency," said Wyclef.