From Salt Lake City’s GLBT Community – Call to Action ;Other links to relief efforts

I received this action alert in my email box today:

COMMUNITY CALL TO ACTION

RAINBOW WORLD FUND ESTABLISHES HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF FUND

Our Compassion in Action! GLBT People Responding to World Need

Please be part of the world-wide GLBT community’s response to the loss and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina has blazed a trail of destruction throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and hundreds of lives have been lost. Many of the survivors are homeless and in need of food, safe drinking water, and medical care. It is estimated that tens of thousands will need temporary housing for months to come.

Rainbow World Fund (RWF) has established a fund for donations to help the survivors of Katrina. They are responding with food aid — donations through RWF will go to America’s Second Harvest (ASH), the nation’s food bank network. ASH expects that at least ten food banks and hundreds of related agencies were hit by Hurricane Katrina.

Your donations will be used to provide meals and groceries, transport food to survivors, and secure additional warehouse space to assist food banks in resuming and maintaining operations. To donate by check or credit card, click the Donate Today button. Specify “Katrina” when asked where you would like your donation to go. 100% of the funds you donate to the RWF Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund will go toward helping the survivors recover. World Fund has called for the LGBT community to join in supporting America’s Second Harvest, a national food-rescue operation that is working to help at least 10 food banks hit by the hurricane.

To learn more about the effort and to make a donation, visit The Rainbow World Fund at http://www.rainbowfund.org.
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I found these on KCPW:

Help the victims of Hurricane Katrina
Nearly 1,000 refugees from Hurricane Katrina are on their way to Utah. If you want to help, call 866-873-2437 or e-mail katrinavolunteers@utah.gov.

If you want to donate money to relief efforts, the following are some organizations working in the disaster area:

American Red Cross
Globus Relief
Hope Force International
NOKR Inc.
Operation USA
Southern Search & Rescue-Emergency Response Units