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Hurricane Donation Guidelines
Category: Hurricane Katrina... Navel Gazing...
Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 10:01 PM [GMT-6]

If you'd like to make a financial contribution to one of the many wonderful organizations who are mobilizing aid to the Gulf Coast, here's something to consider. Take whatever you contributed to the Asian tsunami relief efforts...and double it.

I'm not implying that our fellow Americans are twice as valuable as those in other countries, but it does seem to me that family takes care of family, and we ought to be at least twice as generous in that respect. Anyway, that's what we intend to do.

(And, actually, it will be triple the amount, since MLB's employer, Occidental Petroleum, announced today that not only will it contribute $1MM to the Red Cross, but it will also match all employee contributions dollar-for-dollar. Good on them, and the many other corporations who are doing similar things.)

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One of the many trustworthy organizations that will be doing a great work with the Katrina relief effort is Feed the Children. www.feedthechildren.org

Posted by: Phyllis at August 31, 2005 10:46 PM

Yeah, I've seen a number of blogs suggesting FTC as a worthy recipient.

Another is the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief fund, of which the Texas Baptist Men's relief group is an integral part. I just learned that the Red Cross has a partnership with the Baptist group wherein the latter provides all the meals associated with the former's relief efforts. I think that speaks highly of the quality of service provided by the Baptist groups.

Posted by: Eric at September 1, 2005 08:19 AM

Also, if you want to help out the victims my Church is going to be taking donations and money to Baton Rouge on Monday. For more information click here. Or call/email Mark Wingfield, Associate Pastor Wilshire Baptist Church at 214.452.3128 or mwingfield@wilshirebc.org.

For more details visit my blog...

Posted by: Alexander Muse at September 1, 2005 12:56 PM

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