Relief for the People of New Orleans
Yesterday I heard some New Orleans jazz on the radio and almost cried. Here is a list of links to sites that are doing all they can to help the refuges of Hurricane Katrina. (That’s a link to Wikipedia’s great page of info)
Network for Good has a lits of charities that could use your help.
Craigslist is doing amazing things. With their large national network people are mobilizing all by themselves. Here is their Katrina relief page. Craig Newmark has been linking to amazing acts of kindness on his blog.
Andy Carvin of the Digital Divide Network has set up a blog called Katrina Aftermath. Anyone can blog on the site via email, record a bit of audio on the phone that becomes a podcast, and put a picture up. He has also suggested that Friday, September 2 be This entry was posted on Thursday, September 1st, 2005 at 9:57 am and is filed under Events, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
September 2nd, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Kudos on your efforts to bring relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. There is another way bloggers and other thoughtful people can help:
I have opened forums at http://www.DisasterReliefIdeas.org for the discussion of ideas to aid disaster relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I am not soliciting donations, only ideas. Experts in aspects of disaster relief (housing, healthcare, rebuilding, etc.) are also able to rate these ideas, giving us a means of identifying the most promising ones, which will be shared with disaster relief professionals and persons in authority. Please help our society by contributing your ideas, especially if you are unable to contribute financially to relief efforts.
September 16th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
I have made a customized EMERGENCY type search engine that links only to crisis situation type websites (like relief aide, evacuation planning layouts, crisis management setup and others relating to disasters caused by terrorism, natural disasters, poverty, disease and man-made war), see http://www.CrisisSearch.com … This niche portal was made after the Katrina devastation and hopefully it will assist humanity in/during the next disasterous crisis…
My first ever nonprofit humanitarian project was http://www.SpareSomeChange.com which only covers resources for those living homeless (I had suffered homelessness a few times as a youth). I will try to come up with other helping humanity type portals as I can afford too…