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Donate:
Money:

• American Red Cross
• Modest Needs
• Second Harvest
• United Way
• Additional services accepting donations

Goods:

• Operation Blessing tells you how to put together Disaster Relief kits with items that could be purchased at the dollar store.
• CheckCoffeeCup Software, Inc. to ship specific goods from a posted list.
• Check World Care's warehouse in Tucson, Arizona to ship specific goods from a posted list.
• Back on Track Care Packs
  Hurricane Katrina refugees are without and in need of our help. Perhaps you have already donated $$$ or offered your services in some way. However, many of us are unable to physically help.

  Since the victims must be able to carry their belongings the idea of providing a backpack stuffed with necessities is my core goal. As a mother of four, I am particularly aware of the needs of families.

  I am asking everyone who reads this to purchase a backpack (or donate a gently used one). Please fill this pack with any of the items on the FEMA approved list (PDF).

  Join the Back on Track Care Packs Yahoo Group or email backontrackcarepacks@yahoo.com for more info.
  --Kia Grant

• Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana is a food bank, but they are accepting non-food donations for the Katrina evacuees and are coordinating donations for the entire region. If you do send food, it should be ready-to-eat, and not home-made. Non-food items that they are accepting include: clothes, shoes, personal toiletries (toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, soap, shaving supplies, feminine hygiene products), baby bottles, etc.

  Please send packages to:
  Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana
  2307 Texas Avenue
  Shreveport, LA 71103.

• There are 45,000 New Orleans refugees staying at the River Center for 2-3 months. They are asking for direct donations. The PR person noted there are many many babies and children. She said they need EVERYTHING! She specifically
  mentioned:
  • Clothes
  • Blankets
  • Formula
  • Water
  • Diapers
  • Non-perishable food
  • Sheets
  • Pillows
  • Sleeping Bags
  • ANYTHING.

  Please ship packages to:
  The Baton Rouge River Center
  275 South River Road
  Baton Rouge, LA, 70802
  Phone- 225-389-3030

• The Baton Rouge Saint Vincent DePaul Society is accepting donations for displaced families who are in the Baton Rouge Area. Label the boxes with the size of clothing and if it is for a boy or girl, man or woman. She said to please use smaller boxes if you do not have many
  like sized items of the same size. Larger boxes are absolutely acceptable if they for example are womens size 8 and not mixed with other sized clothes. Or to please place them within a plastic bag with the same sizes in them labeled if using a big box.

  Things on their much needed list as of today are:

  • Infant Clothing/layettes
  • Diapers
  • Formula
  • Bottles
  • Baby wipes
  • Childrens Clothing
  • Childrens Shoes
  • Socks
  • Undergarmets
  • Washcloths
  • Towels
  • Toiletries
  • Blankets
  • Childrens Sleeping Bags
  • Bookbags
  • Pillows
  • First Aid Items
  • Childrens Tylenol
  • Baseball Caps to limit sun exposure
  • Non Aeresol deoderant
  • Non Aeresol Bug Repellant
  • Coloring Books
  • Crayons

  Please ship packages to:
  St Vincent DePaul Society
  St Vincent DePaul Place
  Baton Rouge LA 70802

More ways to help:

• Send cards or notes of support, including notes and drawings from children, to refugees staying at the Houston Astrodome:
  Astrodome
  8400 Kirby Drive
  Houston, TX 77054

• Donate/Find Shelter Hurricane Housing a project of MoveOn.org.
• If ever there was a time to let the government & media know what you think of how they're doing, this would be a really good time. Here are some ideas to help you get started.
  • Congress.org in the upper left corner gives you contact information for everyone from the president down to your local officials.
  • CNN
  • FOX
  • MSNBC