No jokes this week. Send these folks (or the disaster relief effort of your choice) some money:
Network for Good (www.networkforgood.org) Guides you to a number of disaster relief charities, including the United Way in Louisiana.
Noah's Wish (www.noahswish.org) This group rescues animals caught in disasters. 530-622-9313
AmeriCares Foundation (www.americares.org) Thirty percent of this wide-ranging charity's budget goes to disaster relief. 800-486-4357
Feed the Children (www.feedthechildren.org) 800-627-4556
American Kidney Fund (www.kidneyfund.org) Provides emergency help for those with kidney ailments or needing dialysis. 800-638-8299
Catholic Charities (www.catholiccharitiesusa.org) Operates in parishes throughout the affected states. 703-549-1390
America's Second Harvest (www.secondharvest.org) Its website promises that 100 percent of donations will go to Hurricane Katrina relief. 800-771-2303
United Methodist Committee on Relief (www.umcor.org) UMCOR already has executives and consultants on the ground in the Gulf Coast and uses donations for its three-phase relief plan. 800-554-8583
Convoy of Hope (www.convoyofhope.org) The charity's Disaster Response Teams have a distribution point in Picayune, Miss. 417-823-8998
Samaritan's Purse (www.samaritanspurse.org) 828-262-1980
American Red Cross (www.redcross.org) 800-HELP-NOW
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This article appears in Sep 7-13, 2005.
