American
Red Cross - Donate, Give Blood, Volunteer (To Donate By Phone:American
Red Cross (800) HELP NOW (435-7669) English; (800) 257-7575 Spanish)
Lowe's
Home Improvement Stores - will will match total in-store contributions
to the American Red Cross up to $2 million. (Scroll down Lowe's
homepage; donation link is near the bottom of the page).
Network
for Good - Help Support Disaster Relief
in the wake of Katrina
Oxfam
America -- (800) 77OXFAM
Habitat
for Humanity
World
Concern -- (800) 755-5022 ext. 0
World
Emergency Relief
World
Health Organization
World
Hope International -- (888) 466-4673
World
Relief -- (800) 535-5433
Church Organizations:
Adventist
Development Relief Agency -- (800) 424-2372
American Friends Service
Committee -- (888) 588-2372
Catholic
Charities, USA -- (800) 919-9338
Christian
Disaster Response -- (941) 956-5183 / (941) 551-9554
Christian
Reformed World Relief Committee -- (800) 848-5818
Church
World Service -- (800) 297-1516
Convoy of Hope
-- (417) 823-8998
Episcopal Relief and
Development -- (800) 334-7626
Interchurch
Medical Assistance -- (877) 241-7952
International
Mission Board
International Orthodox
Christian Charities -- (877) 803 4622 Islamic
Relief -- (888) 479-4968
Lutheran Disaster Response:
Evangelical
Lutheran in America
Lutheran
Church Missouri Synod
Mennonite
Disaster Service -- (717) 859-2210
Nazarene
Disaster Response -- (888) 256-5886
Presbyterian Disaster
Assistance -- (800) 872-3283
Salvation
Army -- (800) SAL-ARMY (725-2769)
Society of St.Vincent
dePaul
Southern
Baptist Convention -- Disaster Relief (800) 462-8657, ext. 6133
United Methodist
Committee on Relief
Online
at: www.methodistrelief.org
By phone: 1-800-554-8583
By check: at your local church, or by mail to:
UMCOR
PO Box 9068
New York, NY 10087-9068
B'nai
B'rith International -- (888) 388-4224
United
Jewish Communities -- (877) 277-2477
Union for
Reform Judaism
Ask
at work - Some large American corporations are collecting (and in
some cases - Verizon is one example - matching) donations from their
employees to help other employees who have been harmed/displaced by
Hurricane Katrina).
Arts
organizations need our help too...
Louisiana
Philharmonic Relief
- Adaptistration, an arts blog maintained Drew Manus, has a page devoted
to seeking financial aid, jobs and housing for displaced Louisiana
Phil orchestra members
WWNO
(NPR Station in New Orleans) Help Page - has numerous other listings
for aiding musicians