Helping the Gulf Coast
Aug. 31st, 2005 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debgeislerFor those of us with no usefulness to the Gulf Coast right now (not medical or military or data-recovery specialists, etc.), the only thing to do is, if we can, donate money to help. Mike and I did that for the Tsunami relief in December -- hard to believe we'd do the same a bit more than nine months later.
In December, it was Direct Relief International, a smallish California group with an impressive efficiency rating and a loaves-and-fishes approach to making each dollar spent count a lot.
DRI isn't in the Katrina efforts yet, but AmeriCares is, and they rival DRI in charitable efficiency, so that's where we sent some money a bit ago.
There are other groups doing damned fine work, but you pick one you want to work with. Ratings for various charities are online at The Charity Navigator, which provides information about donations, expenditures, efficiency, etc.
Janice Gelb also posted a link to Network for Good, which lists a number of the possible charities and indicates the kinds of things they do to help.
I wish there was more we could do right now.
But hell, anything that brightens the day for someone helps.
In December, it was Direct Relief International, a smallish California group with an impressive efficiency rating and a loaves-and-fishes approach to making each dollar spent count a lot.
DRI isn't in the Katrina efforts yet, but AmeriCares is, and they rival DRI in charitable efficiency, so that's where we sent some money a bit ago.
There are other groups doing damned fine work, but you pick one you want to work with. Ratings for various charities are online at The Charity Navigator, which provides information about donations, expenditures, efficiency, etc.
Janice Gelb also posted a link to Network for Good, which lists a number of the possible charities and indicates the kinds of things they do to help.
I wish there was more we could do right now.
But hell, anything that brightens the day for someone helps.