{"id":123,"date":"2005-09-01T02:14:03","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T09:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2005-09-01T02:14:25","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T09:14:25","slug":"help-victims-of-hurricane-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Help Victims of Hurricane Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/terryteachout.com\"target=\"_blank\"><strong>Terry Teachout&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> aggregation of Katrina-related links and information I have learned that <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thursday is Blog for Relief Day, &#8220;a day of blogging focused on raising awareness of and funds for relief efforts to aid those affected by Hurricane Katrina.&#8221; For information, go <a href=\"http:\/\/truthlaidbear.com\/katrinarelief.php\"target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricmist.net\"target=\"_blank\"><strong>Electric Mist<\/strong><\/a> blogging from Baton Rouge: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org\/donate\/donation-form.asp\"target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Red Cross<\/strong><\/a> has started a fund that will be specifically for people in Louisiana \/ New Orleans area. If you haven&#8217;t yet made a donation to the Red Cross and you want the money to go specifically to this area, please put HURRICANE KATRINA in the memo section. If you want the money to be specifically for Louisiana (Katrina funds will be split among the three states), then put NOLA in the memo section.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also in that spirit I direct you to a site that a DevraDoWrite reader called to my attention &#8212;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkforgood.org\/topics\/animal_environ\/hurricanes\/\"target=\"_blank\"><strong>Network For Good<\/strong><\/a> has a collection of links to online donation sites for the following charities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>American Red Cross &#8212; Providing disaster services and relief.<br \/>\nAmerica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Second Harvest &#8212; Providing food to victims.<br \/>\nCatholic Charities USA &#8212; Providing relief and recovery assistance.<br \/>\nCharity Hospital in New Orleans &#8212; Providing medical care to residents of Louisiana.<br \/>\nChurch World Service &#8212; Developing long-term recovery plans to assist with recovery.<br \/>\nConvoy of Hope &#8212; Providing disaster relief and building supply lines.<br \/>\nEpiscopal Relief &#038; Development &#8212; Mobilizing to support residents affected by this disaster.<br \/>\nHeart of Florida United Way &#8212; Assisting with hurricane recovery efforts in Florida.<br \/>\nHearts with Hands &#8212; Activating response teams to assist in the Gulf Coast and locally.<br \/>\nHumane Society of the U.S. &#8212; Rescuing animals and assisting their caregivers in the disaster areas.<br \/>\nLutheran Disaster Response &#8212; Providing emergency relief and recovery supplies.<br \/>\nMennonite Disaster Service &#8212; Providing relief to victims.<br \/>\nNew Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity &#8212; Assisting victims of hurricane Katrina.<br \/>\nNoah&#8217;s Wish &#8212; Helping to keep animals alive in face of the storm devastation.<br \/>\nOperation Blessing &#8212; Transporting food, water, cleaning kits, and other emergency supplies.<br \/>\nPETsMART Charities &#8212; Providing relief for the animals impacted by hurricanes.<br \/>\nSalvation Army &#8212; Local, regional, and national disaster relief programs.<br \/>\nSamaritan&#8217;s Purse &#8212; Helping victims of natural disasters.<br \/>\nUnited Methodist Committee on Relief &#8212; Providing relief to victims.<br \/>\nUnited Way for the Greater New Orleans Area &#8212; Helping victims of hurricanes locally.<br \/>\nUnited Way of Miami-Dade &#8212; Helping victims of hurricanes locally.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Terry Teachout&#8217;s aggregation of Katrina-related links and information I have learned that Thursday is Blog for Relief Day, &#8220;a day of blogging focused on raising awareness of and funds for relief efforts to aid those affected by Hurricane Katrina.&#8221; For information, go here. Courtesy of Electric Mist blogging from Baton Rouge: The Red Cross &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Help Victims of Hurricane Katrina&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-n-that"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}