Katrina Links

I’ve been getting some emails and comments with helpful links. I figured it might be better to have a shorter post with fewer comments that are link-related only. Please use the comments on this blurb to post links to things that are helpful to survivors and the rescue/recovery/restoration effort. If the site has a short URL, just copy/paste the URL into the comments form and publish. If the URL is super long, use TinyURL. You paste the long URL into the field on TinyURLs website and it spits out a short link you can then copy/paste into the comments field and publish here. There is no need to use HTML, just copy/paste the URL and publish. Don’t bother emailing me asking for permission, just do it.

Thank you. Please don’t put anything in the comments but links. If you want to vent or get out your frustration, use the previous blurbs to do it.

I don’t think my reach is such that I can make that big a difference, which is why I haven’t done this already.

Here are a few helpful links to get it started:
KatrinaPeople finder
(this is being done by salesforce.com).
Wiki asking for help

Katrina Information Map.
This uses the Google map API and is a great tool for people who are looking for folks or want to assess damage. If you zoom in far enough, it’s amazing to see all the markers in the Gulf where people have asked or answered about flood damage or missing persons.

Family News Network.
Registry for people to find lost family members run by the Red Cross. This link is for people affected by Katrina.

  • http://keywestflotsam.blogspot.com Jocelyn

    http://www.katrinajobs.org
    This website will launch on September 15 to assist approximately 260,000 travel and hospitality related workers find positions elsewhere. Many of these people have transferable skills and experience.

    http://www.katrinashelter.com
    This is a site for people who are willing to open thier homes to evacuees.

  • http://www.michellejones.net Michelle

    http://www.neworleansmusiciansrelief.net will launch at the end of the week as well. It “will allow the city’s musicians to register and indicate where they are and apply for funding. It will also feature a bulletin board listing all the benefit concerts and fundraising efforts and allow people to make contributions directly to the musicians of New Orleans.”

  • Phyllis

    http://noahswish.com/ Animal rescue group active in the rescue and recovery of stranded animals throughout the region. As a recipient of Charley’s wrath last year, I can say this group was wonderful for those of us that lost our “other family members” in the storms.

  • http://www.suburbanmisfit.blogspot.com suburban misfit

    http://tinyurl.com/asl83
    This is Go Fug Yourself, and they put together a HUGE and very comprehensive list of places to donate money, to send stuff, etc.

    The one thing they don’t have a lot of is links for animal help.

    http://tinyurl.com/bdtyg
    ASPCA

    http://www.alleycat.org/katrina.html
    Alley Cat Allies

    http://tinyurl.com/97p2f
    Humane Society

    And possibly my favorite place to donate:

    The Manilow Fund (yes, Barry) will match, dollar for dollar, your donation. And so will Barry.
    http://www.manilowfund.com/

    And I’m sure that churches and Boy Scout Troops and Veterans organizations in everyone’s areas are putting together donations. Just open the phone book and start calling.

  • http://mihow.com mihow

    http://displaceddesigner.com/
    A resource for those in the creative industry recently displaced by the on-going situation in New Orleans and the surrounding region

  • janet

    http://umcor.org/
    100% of donations goes to designated relief efforts. Administrative costs & overhead are funded through other sources of the Methodist church. Thanks for doing this.

  • Jenny

    http://tinyurl.com/coo64

    This is from Michael Moore’s website. Its not necessarily monetary donations, but its a group of people who are giving much needed items directly to the victims.

  • http://www.theicarewebsite.com/ silentgoddess

    For the month of September and October, they will donate all net profits to the American Red Cross to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

  • http://preservationhall.com riggs

    Owners Ben & Sarah Jaffe are gathering the NoLa band in NY for a benefit concert; all proceeds and web donations go directly to the many needy musicians that make up the fabric of the Preservation Hall family and New Orleans.

  • http://elaineinsanfrancisco.blogspot.com elaine

    Air America Public Voicemail
    1-866-217-6255
    Air America Radio’s Public Voicemail is a way for disconnected people to communicate in the wake of Katrina.

    Here’s how it works:

    Call the toll-free number above, enter your everyday phone number, and then record a message. Other people who know your everyday phone number (even if it doesn’t work anymore) can call Emergency Voicemail, enter the phone number they associate with you, and hear your message.

    You can also search for messages left by people whose phone numbers you know.
    Air America Radio will leave Public Voicemail in service for as long as this crisis continues. You can call it whenever you are trying to locate someone, or if you are trying to be found.

    Obviously, for this to work, people need to know about it so please forward the number to as many people as you can. You can find out more about Katrina and the affected areas at http://www.airamericaradio.com/

    Air America Radio brings you Emergency VoiceMail in conjunction with VoodooVox.

  • Lily

    Grassroots/Low-income/People of Color-led
    Hurricane Katrina Relief

    http://www.sparkplugfoundation.org/katrinarelief.html

  • Megan

    Already funding-dire libraries in Louisiana are working overtime to help people (as described below) but are deeply lacking adequate resources. I thought I’d post this here b/c maybe ya’ll are tech-oriented folks?

    Louisiana State Librarian Rebecca Hamilton writes: ìWe are in desperate need of computers and printers. We are being inundated with evacuees needing to file FEMA applications, unemployment, search for loved ones, etc., and are coming into our public libraries to use the computers. Our libraries have greatly extended their hours to accommodate the people, but they need additional computers and printers. If you can please put the word out that if anyone wants to help immediately, this is our greatest need.î

    Equipment specifications: Pentium 3, Windows 2000 (prefer XP), laser printers if you can still get toner for them.

    Send equipment to: State Library of Louisiana, 701 North 4th Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802-5232.

    If you are able to assist them, let Rebecca know via email to help her know what to expect. rhamilton@crt.state.la.us “

  • Robin

    I just fedexed a TON of “too small” baby clothes to Star of Hope. I wanted to make sure the clothes actually got to the disaster area, not just locally in California, so I contacted the Red Cross and they recommend Star of Hope. The URL is http://www.sohmission.org/main.asp

  • http://kimba-bremen.com kim

    http://beenthere.typepad.com/been_there
    basically a site that brings people in need and people who want to help together. loads of awesome things have been happening there over the last couple weeks…

    http://www.flickr.com/groups/katrina_auction
    flickr-photographers auction prints (diff. sizes, framed & not) of some of their great works and 100% goes to the red cross for katrina-victims

    http://www.veryzenagain.typepad.com
    this is for amanda (& scott) b.

  • http://www.bungalowaddict.com Heather

    I just rand across this today. It looks like yahoo has creating a “one stop shop” for links to help find relatives. Hope it helps.

    http://findpeople.yahoo.com/katrina

  • http://www.silvergate.us Susan M.

    http://www.texasctcs.blogspot.com/ Technology for All is a Houston group. They’ve set up community technology centers at various evacuee sites and shelters. They have 90 computers in the Astrodome and are helping to reunite families and apply for aid. Great stories posted on their blog.

    http://tinyurl.com/72vvv A map created by CondoBuzz.com using Google Earth. It compares the scope of the New Orleans flooding to several US cities, including Salt Lake City. Powerful stuff.

  • Susan M.

    Correction – the CondoBuzz map doesn’t use Google Earth, it uses Yahoo and the skills of the CondoBuzz folks. My apologies.

  • Lucy

    http://wheretosenddonationsforkatrina.blogspot.com/

    A list of places to send actual stuff to folks affected by Katrina.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/72feetabovesealevel/ 72feetabovesealevel

    Sallie Mae is offering student loan payment relief and some other stuff to people effected by Katrina.

    http://www2.salliemae.com/news/newsreleases/09022005c.htm

    Sallie Mae will also grant automatic payment relief to student loan customers in the areas affected by the storm. This will allow students to discontinue making payments on their loans. The company will also extend the same payment relief terms authorized by the U.S. Department of Education for federally guaranteed loans to its private loan customers. Customers who have other questions about their student loan accounts should contact the company toll-free at 888/2-SALLIE (888/272-5543) or log on to the Manage Your Loans section of http://www.SallieMae.com.

  • http://www.google.com/katrina.html spencer

    i’m surprised that no one has mentioned this one. (i’ve not used yahoo’s so i don’t know how it stacks up, but hope someone finds it useful.)

  • http://www.google.com/katrina.html spencer