_toxication ([info]_toxication) wrote in [info]greengirl__,
2005-09-04 21:46:00
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#14 Lend a Helping Hand .. Katrina donation information





With the recent tragedy, I'm sure everyone is aware of how important it is right now for people to come together and help each other out. There are many, many ways for you to make a difference. Please consider each of the choices below (as well as others available to you that I haven't listed here!) and Elphaba, Galinda, moi, and everyone else here at Green Girl will appreciate your efforts. ♥ Believe me, every penny, canned food, hour of work, everything and anything counts.

The Red Cross
The Red Cross is accepting blood, tissue, and cash donations. If you are unable to donate any of those, then you can also volunteer.
http://www.redcross.org/
1-800-HELP-NOW

The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is accepting cash donations.
"A $100 donation will feed a family of four for two days, provide two cases of drinking water and one household clean-up kit, containing brooms, mops, buckets, and cleaning supplies."
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
1-800-SAL-ARMY

Operation Blessing
Accepting cash donations.
"Operation Blessings tractor trailer trucks are delivering food, water and emergency supplies every day to relief partners like the Salvation Army. OBI staff members are coordinating with FEMA, other nonprofits and local churches to ensure relief is delivered immediately and effectively."
http://www.ob.org/
1-800-436-6348

America's Second Harvest
Accepting cash, food, and volunteers.
"America's Second Harvest, The Nation's Food Bank Network is the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization"
http://www.secondharvest.org/
1-800-344-8070

Websites helping out children victims:

Oh! Speakup!
It's free. For each person who registers they will send $1 to the children victims of the hurricaine, so if you're broke (like I am) and you feel like you can't help (like I did before I did this), you still can! It asks your name, age, zip code and email. (They won't spam your inbox, so don't worry.)
(No available phone number.)
"The patients of the New Orleans Children’s Hospital have been evacuated to Houston in the aftermath one of the worst natural disasters in US history. Help raise money to assist these children and their families in this very difficult time."
http://speakup.oxygen.com/campaigns/neworleans/

Texas Children's Hospital
They accept check and credit online, by mail, or by phone.
Contact Debbie Coomer at 832-824-6806 or Jayne Dumolt at 832-824-6818 for more information.
http://www.texaschildrenshospital.org/AllAbout/NewsCenter/breaking_news/Hurricane_Katrina_update_give.aspx

(thanks to [info]kuro_nyoko)

"If you don't have the plastic necessary to make donations, feel free to ask around. If not your parents, then there should be plenty of other people (teachers, etc.) who will help you in that regards. Don't let that be your stumbling block. (I say this as a teacher who has made the same offer to my students.)"
-- [info]theinfamousj

Unfortunately, I am not able to provide a short description for every charity website. If you want to help write information about a website ((perferably a short description (can be copy and pasted from the website if you wish), what kinds of donations they are accepting, a phone number to donate to if available, and the website URL)), then comment here and I will add it. Thank you. If you wish to only leave a website URL (I will be checking each website), that is fine as well.

Other places accepting donations:
http://www.adventist.communityservices.org/
http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/
http://www.crwrc.org/
http://www.churchworldservice.org/
http://www.convoyofhope.org/
http://www.mds.mennonite.net/
http://www.pcusa.org/pda/
http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/
http://www.er-d.org/

Websites helping out the animals:
http://www.nsalamerica.org/
http://www.noahswish.org/
http://www.petsmartcharities.org/
http://www.hsus.org/

The Network for Good, One.com and CNN have a good list of places to donate to as well. LJ Spotlight has a post about Katrina and Charity Navigator has more suggestions on how you can make a difference.

Feel free to link to this post anywhere you want. The more people aware, the better.

If you spot any errors, please let me know.

Thank you.

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  • 34 comments

[info]thinktink797

September 4 2005, 13:50:51 UTC 6 years ago

Oh man, do i love you for making the donation post.

The comic is sweet. Awe.

[info]_toxication

September 4 2005, 14:23:46 UTC 6 years ago

yeah, I saw a brush maker doing something similar, and I felt like I should do something as well. :)

[info]thereflections

September 4 2005, 14:01:40 UTC 6 years ago

That's beautiful.

[info]_toxication

September 4 2005, 14:23:56 UTC 6 years ago

aww, thank you. I'm glad you think so.

[info]joaniemaloney

September 4 2005, 14:06:30 UTC 6 years ago

Aww. I'm loving the comic.
I'll be sure to ask my parents about donations.:)

[info]_toxication

September 4 2005, 14:25:00 UTC 6 years ago

yay! There really wouldn't be a point to this post if there weren't people like you to be uhm.. "affected?" XD by it! ♥

[info]delgaserasca

September 4 2005, 14:10:02 UTC 6 years ago

Aw, the comic is lovely. Do you mind if I link here from my lj?

[info]_toxication

September 4 2005, 14:22:59 UTC 6 years ago

Please do! :) The more people aware, the better.

[info]memoriesofyuna

September 4 2005, 14:26:19 UTC 6 years ago

Oh how sweet! The comic made me "Awwww!" to! It's good to see people are making the effort to help. There will be a link to this in my lj =D. -Aseret

[info]_toxication

September 4 2005, 14:31:12 UTC 6 years ago

Great, hopefully this post will even reach non-Wicked fans! :D

[info]ladymiry

September 4 2005, 14:39:27 UTC 6 years ago

Aww... very sweet. It's great that you made a donation post, as [info]memoriesofyuna said, it's good to see people going the extra mile, just to help those in need. :)

[info]findmystrength

September 4 2005, 15:18:43 UTC 6 years ago

I'm adding this as one of the links in my MySpace. That's where I'm posting about all of this. Thanks. <3

[info]crazydiamond14x

September 4 2005, 15:24:50 UTC 6 years ago

Awww, this comic is really sweet.

I'm making my donation very soon too!

[info]x_itsmylife_x

September 4 2005, 15:38:10 UTC 6 years ago

Awww. How sweet. :D

[info]mantber

September 4 2005, 16:10:25 UTC 6 years ago

:) verey nice comic

[info]centraltime

September 4 2005, 16:43:15 UTC 6 years ago

That was great. You are my favorite person right now.

And we're doing a lot to help. Even contemplating letting someone sleep on our couch for the night. Everyone here is definitely doing what they can. And they should. It's our jobs as fellow citizins.

[info]idinasboi

September 4 2005, 16:54:50 UTC 6 years ago

i did the salvation army one, the hundred dollar family of four feeding mop water kit type thing. but i only donated fifty dollars, because as of right now, i am broke. but hey, anything and everything helps, as you said. and i love the comic.

[info]kellatrix

September 4 2005, 17:30:19 UTC 6 years ago

That's very sweet of you to make this post :) I've been meaning to donate something for a while.

[info]x0xmeganx0x

September 4 2005, 18:44:01 UTC 6 years ago

that's an adorable comic and the post is very sweet

[info]kuro_nyoko

September 4 2005, 19:51:24 UTC 6 years ago

(Here are two sites that help out the children victims who were evacuated from New Orlean's Children's Hospital, and transferred to Texas Children's Hospital and those children's families.)

http://speakup.oxygen.com/campaigns/neworleans/

"The patients of the New Orleans Children’s Hospital have been evacuated to Houston in the aftermath one of the worst natural disasters in US history. Help raise money to assist these children and their families in this very difficult time."

It's free. For each person who registers they will send $1 to the children victims of the hurricaine, so if you're broke (like I am) and you feel like you can't help (like I did before I did this), you still can! It asks your name, age, zip code and email. (They won't spam your inbox, so don't worry.)
(No available phone number.)

On that site, they also have a link to Texas Children's Hospital. Their relief fund page is here:

http://www.texaschildrenshospital.org/AllAbout/NewsCenter/breaking_news/Hurricane_Katrina_update_give.aspx

It looks like they accept check and credit online, by mail, or by phone.
Contact Debbie Coomer at 832-824-6806 or Jayne Dumolt at 832-824-6818 for more information.

As it's been said before, "anything and everything helps."

Before I go, thank you for this post and the sweet comic. ♥ I'm going to link back here in my LJ, and probably my Myspace, too. :3 Thanks again.

[info]_toxication

September 4 2005, 23:24:50 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you. :) I'll be adding that to the post later today. (No time right now.)

[info]insanekht

September 4 2005, 20:28:08 UTC 6 years ago

First off, the comic is so cute. And second, thanks for all that information! I love people who love helping other people. :D

[info]theinfamousj

September 4 2005, 20:37:52 UTC 6 years ago

If you don't have the plastic necessary to make donations, feel free to ask around. If not your parents, then there should be plenty of other people (teachers, etc.) who will help you in that regards. Don't let that be your stumbling block. (I say this as a teacher who has made the same offer to my students.)

[info]_toxication

September 4 2005, 23:25:28 UTC 6 years ago

That's great advice. Do you mind if I add that to the post?

[info]theinfamousj

6 years ago

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[info]twentys0mething

September 5 2005, 03:50:59 UTC 6 years ago

hey, i'm from new orleans and this makes me happy. though don't donate to the red cross. they're helping, sure, but not all the money goes straight to the victims. i can't think of links off the top of my head, but i'd donate to local charities that are helping.

[info]_toxication

September 5 2005, 12:35:16 UTC 6 years ago

:) Glad you got out safe and are okay.

[info]piccolomuse

September 5 2005, 15:33:11 UTC 6 years ago

that is so sweet!

[info]gettingdrastic

September 5 2005, 17:51:07 UTC 6 years ago

This is wonderful. I hope it is ok for me to link to this post in my icon journal. :)

[info]_toxication

September 6 2005, 08:14:52 UTC 6 years ago

Of course it is. :)

[info]mydeadparadise

September 7 2005, 17:18:28 UTC 6 years ago

Awe, I love the comic. And thanks for the Speakup link! I didn't know about that ... I tried to register, but I have to do it again later because the servers are too busy!!

[info]_toxication

September 8 2005, 07:34:18 UTC 6 years ago

Someone else actually commented with the speakup link. :D It's great, cause then *everyone* can do something.

[info]elyse

September 13 2005, 23:20:43 UTC 6 years ago

I randomly stumbled on your link through a post in [info]organicdesigns, and wanted to say how happy I was to see something like this on Livejournal, especially in a comic journal :)

(And you said something before about hoping to get through to non-Wicked fans...and you've found one ^_^ I've never seen/read/listened to it, but seeing your post merited a comment of thanks.)

[info]_toxication

September 15 2005, 11:40:30 UTC 6 years ago

oh wow, no idea how it found it's way to [info]organicdesigns. Good to see things get around though. :D
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