The Relief Effort - How To Help & $ome Who Have

[DudeAsInCool]

For those who want to help the relief effort, call and donate to the Red Cross:

1 800 Help-Now

[rainbowdemon]

A lot of the stores around here have collection jugs for this. I put a buck or two in them when I can. It's not much, but if everyone does it, it will add up to quite a bit.

[DudeAsInCool]

A little kid had a stand in Larchmont today - he was selling miniature brownies to aid the relief effort - I gave him 5 bucks... I imagine people like this are doing this all over the country

[DudeAsInCool]

Kuwait pledges $500 millon towards the relief effort

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?...=D8CDH45G0.html

[DudeAsInCool]

According to Channel 2 News, the US has accepted a gesture from the UN to help...

[Wolfie]

According to Channel 2 News, the US has accepted a gesture from the UN to help...

It's about time.

[DudeAsInCool]

This link provides a comprehensive list of where to donate:

http://instapundit.com/archives/025235.php

[slum_goddess]

jesus, Dude, why send people over to that hatemonger's site? there's a bunch of links i'll dig up including how to help animals...we saw this dog (now prolly dead) on a bridge, refusing fresh water. he was about a hair from 'mad' and the presenter said he was in shock. :(

[DudeAsInCool]

jesus, Dude, why send people over to that hatemonger's site? there's a bunch of links i'll dig up including how to help animals...we saw this dog (now prolly dead) on a bridge, refusing fresh water. he was about a hair from 'mad' and the presenter said he was in shock. :(

The list was referred by the Huffington Post... If you have better

sources, post them

[slum_goddess]

katrina via red cross

best friends animal society hurricane relief fund

LA SPCA

wonkette: 'not that you needed more reasons to give, but this broke our hearts for the hundredth or so time today:

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals picked up two cats and 15 dogs, including one Kennedy found tied up beneath the overpass next to an unopened can of dog food with a sign that read, "Please take care of my dog, his name is Chucky."

"Joseph Barns, right, carries his cat Patches on his shoulder as he is evacuated from the Superdome in New Orleans Saturday afternoon."

[DudeAsInCool]

It's heartwarming to read the comments from all these pet lovers willing to help - the pet tragedy has not been covered sufficiently, if at all

http://news.bestfriends.org/index.cfm?page...C01318A4&stid=4

[Redneck4sure]

jesus, Dude, why send people over to that hatemonger's site?

Because he is a closet redneck.

With a bad attitude.

[slum_goddess]

america's second harvest

catholic charities

jewish federation relief/katrina

lutheran charities

salvation army

[The Hunter]

Safe list.

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/list/

[DudeAsInCool]

Corporations including Microsoft Corp., Nike Inc., Dillard's Inc. and the Trump Group have already pledged donations to the fund, and Wal- Mart and the Walton Family Foundation have given $23 million.

[DudeAsInCool]

Lewis telethon raises over $1 mil for Katrina victims

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon raised $54.9 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and more than $1 million for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Lewis decided to devote the two-day telethon to both children with muscular dystrophy and Katrina victims after seeing reports from the Gulf Coast. The Katrina donations will go to the Salvation Army in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Tens of thousands of people are out of their homes, and many of those homes have been destroyed.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/telev...t_id=1001054742

[DudeAsInCool]

Families across US offer shelter to hurricane victims

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Moved by the devastation and despair wrought by Hurricane Katrina, Americans across the United States are opening their homes, trailers and vacation getaways to offer shelter to the hundreds of thousands left homeless by the storm.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usweatherrelie...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[DudeAsInCool]

Yahoo has put up a board to help find missing people:

http://boards.news.yahoo.com/boards/

[DudeAsInCool]

Mexico Sends First Aid Convoy Ever to U.S

MEXICO CITY - Mexican army convoys and a navy ship laden with food, supplies and specialists traveled to the U.S. Wednesday to help in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort — a highly symbolic journey marking the first time Mexico's military has aided its powerful northern neighbor.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050907/ap_on_...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[DudeAsInCool]

Donations at $500 Million, and Climbing

Americans' giving for hurricane relief dwarfs first week's tallies for 9/11 and the tsunami.

Americans are opening their pocketbooks so fast and so wide in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that donations have already dwarfed the first week's efforts to help victims of last year's Asian tsunami and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

By Tuesday evening, U.S. charities had raised more than $500 million in cash and pledges — more than twice the $239 million donated in the 10 days after Sept. 11, and more than three times the $163 million raised in the nine days after the tsunami that hit countries along the Indian Ocean last Dec. 26.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ph...l=la-home-local

[DudeAsInCool]

Katrina Victims to Get $2K Debit Cards

WASHINGTON - The federal government plans to begin doling out debit cards worth $2,000 each to adult victims of Hurricane Katrina, The Associated Press has learned.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050907/ap_on_...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[DudeAsInCool]

Across the nation, tens of thousands have offered their homes as temporary shelter for those displaced by Katrina. Placement is made via Internet registries such as HurricaneHousing.org, HomeFlood.org and Craig's List where everything from a spare sofa to luxury condominiums are available to victims, often free or for a nominal charge.

[DudeAsInCool]

Congress Passes $51.8B Katrina Relief Bill

September 08,2005 | WASHINGTON -- Acting with extraordinary speed, Congress approved an additional $51.8 billion for relief and recovery from Hurricane Katrina on Thursday. President Bush pledged to make it "easy and simple as possible" for uncounted, uprooted storm victims to collect food stamps and other government benefits.

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?...=D8CGCN1O0.html

[DudeAsInCool]

How to help via Craigslist.com - New Orleans

relief resources

missing people

temporary housing

temporary employment

missing pets

transportation

rideshare

volunteer

katrina discussion

 

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/

[DudeAsInCool]

Kevin Smith auctions off a barbq, walk on roles:

http://viewaskew.com/katrina/