Volunteers and Donations

Volunteer Opportunities

Gustav Solidarity has been set up to help spread news and resources about the grassroots, ground-up relief following Hurricane Gustav and to provide ideas for and support to people doing work in their local communities on behalf of hurricane survivors and gulf coast residents.

Donation Groups

INCITE! New Orleans Urgently Needs Your Support! Your donation will go directly to supporting the hundreds of low income women of color that are the constituency of the New Orleans Women's Health Clinic.

United Houma Nation Relief Fund: created in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which helped thousands of tribal members return home and re-build their communities.

Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights provides solidarity and support to survivors in Mississippi through advocacy, relief supplies and organizing to help document human rights abuses that occur all too often during relief efforts. Please send donations to:

Southern Relief Fund
c/o Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
PO Box 1223
Greenville, MS 38702-1223

Federation of Southern Land Cooperatives
Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund which operates in a number of southeastern states including Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama working primarily with African American rural communities including farmers and fishworkers.
"We now have farmers who have lost all their crops and markets. Many have lost houses and means of livelihood.”

Turkey Creek Community Initiatives
Since 2003, TCCI.s mission has been the comprehensive revitalization of Turkey Creek - one of Mississippi’s most endangered African-American communities, coastal streams, and urban watersheds. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we are now engaged in an ad hoc community relief effort as well.

Ashe' Cultural Arts Center
Located in the Central City area of New Orleans, Ashe' Cultural Arts Center practices cultural art presentation and production, community development. Serves as a community-based Center for ReBuild New Orleans activities and a producer and presenter of cultural and art works through out the New Orleans Diaspora
( Katrina Evacuee Locations).

Foundations

There are several local foundations positioned to get resources directly to organizations that can reach out to non profits, even during this evacuation situation, serving those in need. They are:

Each of these foundations have been effective and efficient at working with their communities on policies and practices that ensure community well being and betterment for all.