There's a really excellent list already together at:
www.sparkplugfoundation.org/katrinarelief.html

Also, Jessie Bidol of Bradford (near Bangor) is an African-American woman who has lived in Maine for several decades but whose family is all from the New Orleans area and were severely affected by the storm. If you know Jessie, or even if you don't, and want to help her family's recovery:
Bidol Family Katrina Recovery Fund, c/o Mary Lou Colbath, 19 Spencer St.,
Orono 04473, 866-2878

Here's some other good groups that weren't in the sparkplug foundation list as of the time of this posting:

Food Not Bombs
www.foodnotbombs.net
Please help Food Not Bombs provide help for the
victims of Katrina. We plan to send another busload of food to the affected area. We URGENTLY need your support! If you can help cook and serve food, have money you can donate or have the time to call groceries and warehouses for food please contact us at www.foodnotbombs.net. You can make a financial donation on line or mail checks to Food Not Bombs, P.O. Box 744, Tucson, AZ 85702. Please call (1-800-884-1136 ) or email (katrina (at) foodnotbombs.net )
us if you can join us on the bus or help with gas
money. We intend to leave in the next few days. Our Food Not Bombs chapters in New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi have been wiped out. Our groups in Houston, Austin, San Antonio Jackson, Pensacola, Memphis and other southern cities are feeding people fleeing the disaster. Food Not Bombs is ready to help the tens of thousands of people that have been made homeless by the storm.

Thanks, Keith McHenry - cofounder of Food Not Bombs.
www.foodnotbombs.net

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FarmAid
www.farmaid.org

Disaster Fund - Hurricane Relief

Support the Farm Aid Disaster Fund

The Family Farm Disaster Fund was established by FARM AID to help farm families survive weather-related disasters. Right now donations to the FFDF are being directed to farm families that were hurt by Hurricane Katrina. Farm Aid is helping by:

1. Providing emergency funds for families to allow them to buy food and cover family living expenses. Through churches and service agencies operating in the region, FARM AID ensures that the money goes to farm families most in need.

2. Supporting emergency hotlines which provide legal, financial and emotional counseling to struggling farmers.

3. Providing legal and financial counseling to farmers in danger of losing their farms. When farmers need help to avoid foreclosure due to losses from natural disasters, FARM AID funded groups are there to help them save their farm.

4. Sponsoring crisis prevention programs in disaster stricken states. Through workshops and public meetings, FARM AID-funded groups educate farmers about available disaster assistance in each state.

Donations to the Family Farm Disaster Fund will help FARM AID directly address the needs of farm in crisis. Please help Farm Aid help them.

Farm Aid staff members can be reached at 1-800-FARM AID (800-327-6243) from 9am to 5pm eastern time. If no one picks up your call, please leave a detailed message and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.

Please include your complete name, home mailing address and your phone number so that we can best respond to your request.

Contact Us Online
If you are a farmer who needs help, or you want information about what FARM AID does to help farmers use: farmhelp (at) farmaid.org

If you have a question about making a donation, purchasing merchandise or membership use: memberservices (at) farmaid.org

Regular Mail & Phone/Fax
11 Ward Street, Suite 200
Somerville, MA 02143
toll free: 800-FARM-AID
local: 617-354-2922
fax: 617-354-6992
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Veterans for Peace

On September 2, 2005 the Veterans for Peace Bus from Mendocino County, CA took a detour to help the victims of hurricane Katrina. We arrived in Covington, LA with food and supplies that Camp Casey had sent from Crawford, Texas.

We have set up a permanent Camp Casey at the Pine View Middle School, 1115 West 28th Avenue, Covington, LA. We are using the school to support Veterans For Peace hurricane relief efforts for the people of the region. We are supporting The Red Cross with power, medical supplies, kitchen service, food bank and distribution, internet communications and trained medical personnel.

We Urgently Need Your Help!

Right now we can use your dollars, trained volunteers & specific donations (This list will change!):

We Do NOT need clothes at this time
Water
Canned Goods
Baby Supplies - Baby Food Formula, diapers #4, #5, Wipes, Pedialyte
Hygene Supplies
Adult Depends
Steril Gloves
Electrolites
Food bank & delivery volunteers with trucks, vans or cars
Self contained kitchens with generators, utensils, workers
Office & media equipment

At this time we do not need additional medical professionals - PLEASE CONTACT THE RED CROSS

Our Mobile Media Center is on the bus with wireless Internet via Satellite. We are using our computer to communicate needs and direct displaced people to services and document damage in the poorest effected areas.

We need the following to be truely effective:

Apple iMac G5 Computers 20" Monitor
500 Gigabyte Firewire Hard Drives
Canon XL2Digital Video Camera
Digital Projector (3000 lumens)
Apple iPods with recording
Monthly Satellite Access and Website Hosting Fee

Donations for our multi media equipment will support the displaced people volunteers, Red Cross, staff, press as we halp everyone keep in touch through via email, web, blogs, and teleconferencing.

DROP OFFS
Volunteer Kitchen, Food Bank and Distribution Center
Pine View Middle School
1115 West 28th Avenue Covington, LA. 70434

UPS & FEDEX (U.S. Postal Service Not Yet Deliverable)
Veterans For Peace Chapter 116 C/O
645 Kimbro Drive, Baton Rouge, LA. 70808

Online Donations Via PayPal
vfproadtrips.org

MAIL DONATIONS
Veterans For Peace Chapter 116
28500 Sherwood Rd
Willits CA 95490

Cash donations are always needed and are Tax Deductible!
The Veterans for Peace is a 501c3.

CHECK OUR MESSAGE BOARD to find and share rides and supplies.

CONTACT US
Please use our message board for communications
Cell phone connections to Louisiana are very intermittent and unpredictible at this time.

In Louisiana:
pjtate (at) sonic.net
Cell PH 707-536-3001
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