Haiti support efforts are in full force on the University of Colorado campus this week thanks to some students stepping up to help.

A handful of students and groups are creating convenient and fun ways to donate money for Haiti.

Students will have several options for donating or getting involved in relief efforts including change donations and food drop-offs.

Drink for the cause

Feel like having a drink or five?

The CU student group GlobeMed is sponsoring a bar crawl, called Trek the Bars, on Thursday night to raise money for crisis relief in Haiti.

For $6, students can purchase a wristband, good for drink specials, free cover and live music at seven local bars: Juanita's, The Walrus, Bacaro, Connor O'Neill's, The Draft House, Circle and Tahona Tequila Bistro. Wristbands can be purchased in the UMC in front of Baby Doe's from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday or at any of the participating bars.

CU sophomore and Trek the Bars organizer Sarah Budisavljevic said while the CU student chapter of GlobeMed focuses on raising funds for Himalayan HealthCare in Nepal, they also support current causes such as the Haiti earthquake relief.

"If there is a need we should be there to fill it," Budisavljevic said. "This should be a way students can have fun and feel good about doing it."

Proceeds from the wristbands will be split among supporting efforts in Nepal, with the majority going to help relief in Haiti.

Happy hour

Start your weekend off right with a drink and a donation.

Students can stop by The Goose on the Hill from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday for happy hour when the $5 cover charge and a portion of the bar's proceeds will go to the Colorado Haiti Project and relief efforts. The happy hour will include drink specials, door prizes and live music.

Guiseppi Marzelli, a CU senior and organizer of various Haiti relief efforts, said it's not enough for students to feel bad about what's happening. Students need to get involved in the relief efforts, he said.

"It kills me that people aren't helping out more," Marzelli said. We have it so easy here on campus. "Our lives are so safe and easy, we have no idea what these people are going through and the least we can do is try to help out."

Marzelli and his fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, are also hoping to provide convenient drop stations on the Hill for students to drop off needed supplies, such as rice and beans or books in French.

Donations can be taken to the fraternity house or brought to happy hour at The Goose.

Penny war

The Colorado Student Public Interest Research Group is sponsoring a penny war to support relief efforts in Haiti Wednesday through Jan. 27.

CoPIRG is challenging student groups to join the competition by collecting pennies for points. Any coin that is not a penny and bills count against that group, taking points away from their final tally.

CoPIRG intern Cassie Gedbaw said the group hopes to raise a couple thousand dollars, but the main goal of the penny war is to create more awareness of the crisis and to give students convenient options for donating to the cause.

"We're not just encouraging students to give pennies, but to send support any way they can," Gedbaw said. "We think this is super important and we want to give students the option to help people who can't help themselves."

Students with donation jars will be spread across the Boulder campus asking for donations, in pennies, hoping to collect the most points and bragging rights.

Student groups who would like to participate can e-mail gedbaw@colorado.edu with their information.

Donations during meals

CU freshman Christopher Atkinson began a program to raise money through the Global Studies Residential Academic Program, and is hoping to add a general donation jar in the Cheyenne Arapaho Dining Hall.

G-RAP program assistant Katie O'Block said Atkinson came to her office wanting to provide the 200 G-RAP students with a convenient way to donate to Haiti relief efforts. The program, a donation contest, will award a prize to the winners in the form of free food.

O'Block said there are nine teams of 22 freshman, each with a sophomore mentor, collecting money. The team that collects the most money will get free dinner -- and it's no dorm dinner either.

"(Atkinson) has been involved in seeing through this whole program and is providing a way for these freshman to help without putting pressure on them to donate money they don't have," O'Block said.

All proceeds collected during the program will be donated to the Red Cross's Haitian relief efforts.