http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/katrina_aid.html
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/relief/
http://www.teamrescueone.com/
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/katrina/index.html
http://www.leftturn.org/Articles/Viewer.aspx?id=670&type=W


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BEGIN FORWARD:
Here are some great resources for giving money or volunteering in the
relief and recovery efforts:


The Sparkplug Foundation
has a great list of funding and volunteering options with
organizations that doing grassroots relief work that focuses on
people of color and poor people, especially groups that are run by,
or accountable to people of color and economically devastated
communities:


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



Tides Foundation
has a Rapid Response Disaster Relief Fund that specializes in
relief projects that serve those most in need and most forgotten or
disenfranchised from traditional relief organizations:


http://www.tidesfoundation.org/RR_0905.cfm



The League of Pissed Off Voters
has a New Orleans Fund, of which 100% of the money donated goes to
their work of building a team of media, organizing and advocacy-savvy
Nawleans refugees who are ready to write op-eds, fight, advocate,
support their displaced neighbors during this crisis, and work for
New Orleans to be restored in a way that includes the input of
ordinary people!


https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/shop/indyvoter/custom.jsp? donate_page_KEY=80



MoveOn
has a site where you can offer space for refugees to stay:


http://www.hurricanehousing.org/



New Orleans Network
: In about 24-36 hours, the website that I'm working on with Shana
Sassoon and a whole team of volunteer techies will be functional as a
way for people to connect with and support the New Orleans refugees
in their area, It will also be a way for New Orleans refugees to find
each other in their exile communities and organize to take back their
city and make sure that it is rebuilt in ways that serve ALL New
Orleans residents. There will be exile community bulletin boards,
discussion boards, resource listings, advocacy how-to sheets, events
calendars, etc.


http://www.NewOrleansNetwork.org



Finally, as the Neighborhood Story Project
, Abram and Rachel will spend the next 4 months working with refugee
high school students to document the stories of people living in the
Astrodome. They are in the process of reprinting the original
Neighborhood Story Project Books at a printshop in Houson. The
original books, each written by a highschool student about their
neighborhood in New Orleans, were the best-selling books in New
Orleans over the summer, behind Harry Potter 6. All remaining copies
were destroyed in the flooding.


Anyone who wants to help get their local independent bookstore to
take a box of these incredible books to sell as a way to raise money
for relief and recovery, and as a way to get out the amazing stories
of the people and neighborhoods of New Orleans, please contact me at
jamieschweser@yahoo.com


Abram and Rachel will need to raise thousands of dollars to reprint
the books and get them shipped out to bookstores. Information about
how to help will come soon, when they can get some sort of bank
accounts and 501c3 organization in Houston ­ after the holiday
weekend.



Thanks for all that you are all doing, and for all of the kind words
and well wishes.

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