KATRINA DISASTER ASSISTANCE THREAD

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wherein people who know about this stuff tell me (and any other interested paries) how I can donate goods to people displaced by the storm.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

a friend sent me this link: http://www.thehungersite.com/

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mercycorps.org/
Money not goods though.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Bret Favre was on Fox yesterday, pleading for generators and fuel so that people can... turn on the fridge and have a hot shower. Don't know they're born, etc etc...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rrmtf.org/mtf/hurricanerelief.htm

For the first million, they'll match .5 to the dollar.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I didn't know how to donate to MercyCorps, it seemed as though I *had* to donate on a monthly basis as well.Does that RRMTF.ORG thing work?

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think money is usually better than goods, because random clothes and blankets and stuff are much more logistically difficult to deal with.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure eventually you'll start to see canned food drives and such though.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.redcross.org/article/0,1072,0_312_4498,00.html
To go along with what Hurting said, Why relief agencies ask for money instead of goods. (Red Cross site seems to be a bit slow the past few days)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Today's payday, so I'm going to donate. Any advice on the most effective way to do this would be welcome (Red Cross? SBC?).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if this is presumptious, since I sadly never met her, but I was thinking about making my donation in memory of Liz, since the Red Cross allows you this option. Was anyone else thinking about this?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Is anyone able to access the Red Cross site this morning?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I wasn't able to access it yesterday evening, either, but the I could access the RC donations page that Ned linked in the Katrina thread yesterday (or the day before) to make a donation.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

This one:

http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate/

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.americares.org - it's not the red cross but according to this site and its webpage, it looks like a good charity

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks M. I was just about to use that page, but I noticed that my credit union has a page setup for direction donation to the Red Cross, that's pretty cool.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.secondharvest.org/default2.asp

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

You can donate to the red cross through your Amazon account:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/philanthropy/red-cross.html/

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have been thinking about donating to Noah's Wish, which rescues animals from disaster zones. I hadn't heard of them before yesterday. I don't have a lot of $ to give, and would like what I do give to have the maximum effectiveness. Does anyone else know anything about them?

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

i recommend attempting human empathy instead of projecting emotions onto dumb animals

― ff, Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

I got onto the Red Cross site, but now when I hit donate I get a message about an unknown certificate, which was not there this morning-Can anyone with more computer skills than I look at this and see if it's been hacked?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

i recommend attempting human empathy instead of projecting emotions onto dumb animals
ff-
I don't know if that's supposed to be a dig, a joke or what but fuck it and you regardless.

I never claimed to be without human empathy or that I (or anyone else) am pretending that animals have "human emotions". However, I have a human response to innocent animals drowning, dying, and suffering in general. There are lots and lots of people donating $ to humans who undoubtedly need help. But their animal friends could certainly use help as well--and if someone is willing to help them then I am inclined to support that.

My question was about a matter of efficacy. So why don't you tell me what your plan is to help instead of being a dick about it.

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

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