Friday, September 02, 2005
A SAMPLING OF HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORTS
WINONA, Minn. - Winona Bishop Bernard (BER'-nerd) Harrington is asking parishes in his diocese to take up a special collection for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.
Each of the 115 parishes is being asked to hold the collection either this weekend or the weekend of September tenth and eleventh.
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IN NEW JERSEY
For North Jerseyans, the very public suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims has been frustrating to watch from the sidelines. The outpouring of support that New Jersey received in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks has many local people searching for ways to pay back the Southern hospitality they were shown during their own time of need.
"People have been coming to me all day wanting to do collections in their schools, in their businesses, on the street corners, everything you can imagine," said Gail Sample of the Metropolitan New Jersey chapter of the Red Cross. "I've gotten calls from corporations wanting to do matching gifts."
Those corporate gifts and individual donations have added up, totaling $93 million nationwide so far, in just the four days since the storm devastated a large swath of the Gulf Coast. According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, which tracks charitable donations, money has come in at a rate that outpaces donations received the first week following the tsunami in South Asia.
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SOME OHIO CONTRIBUTIONS
• The Red Cross has already raised $50 million to assist victims. You can donate online through www.redcross.org. as well as by calling 1-800-HELPNOW.
• All 75 local McDonald's restaurants, Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., the AFL-CIO, the Ohio News Network and KeyBank are involved in projects that will funnel donations to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund through the Dayton Area chapter, Box 517, Dayton 45401. Secure online donations may be made at www.dac.redcross.org.
•The Ohio News Network and KeyBank have begun an on-air campaign.
• UD students will staff collection tables in Kennedy Union on campus to raise funds beginning Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., through Sept. 16. Donations will be distributed to nonprofit organizations, such as Catholic Relief Services as well as the Red Cross.
• WSU's Freshman Plunge Community Service Project is organizing a campus-wide effort. Call (937) 775-3232.
• Chaminade-Julienne High School collected donations Thursday night kicking off a weeklong fund-raising effort.
• The Foodbank, in conjunction with the Dayton Daily News and Ryder Trucks, secured a 24-foot truck that will collect food, water and other supplies to take to Baton Rouge, La.
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