Hurricane Harvey continues to pummel Southeast Texas and now Western Louisiana.\u00a0 Images of families in boats, or wading through waist deep water move us to ask, \u201chow can we help?\u201d. We are told that the recovery from Hurricane Harvey will take months if not years.\u00a0 During the early stages of a disaster relief effort the best way to support Texas\u2019 relief effort is to offer financial support.\u00a0 In the coming weeks, we will learn of other ways to support the communities and victims of this major disaster.\u00a0 However, if you are able and are interested in providing financial support we have put together a list of valuable websites that will help guide your decision.<\/p>\n
Charity Navigator is a non profit organization that provides information on a wide list of national and local charities. Charity Navigator has published a list of charities that are directly involved with the relief effort in South Texas.\u00a0 This list is updated periodically.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.charitynavigator.org\/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=628<\/a><\/p>\n Below is a short list of non-profit charities that are currently involved in the relief effort in South Texas.<\/p>\n Texas Diaper Bank<\/p>\n http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/08\/27\/how-to-help-tropical-storm-harvey-relief-efforts\/#R4lvcfCEiaqg<\/p>\n American Red Cross<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.redcross.org\/donate\/hurricane-harvey<\/a><\/p>\n NECHAMA:Jewish response to disaster is a Minneapolis based relief organization preparing to send a self sustaining relief team to South Texas.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.nechama.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n Islamic Relief USA<\/p>\n http:\/\/irusa.org\/mission-vision-and-values\/<\/a><\/p>\n Lutheran Disaster Response<\/p>\n Give by phone at\u00a0800-638-3522<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0online<\/a><\/p>\n Or send check to ELCA at P.O. Box 1809,\u00a0Merrifield, VA 22116-8009<\/p>\n Write\u00a0“Hurricane Response – United States”\u00a0on your check memo line.<\/p>\n ———————–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hurricane Harvey continues to pummel Southeast Texas and now Western Louisiana.\u00a0 Images of families in boats, or wading through waist deep water move us to ask, \u201chow can we help?\u201d. We are told that the recovery from Hurricane Harvey will take months if not years.\u00a0 During the early stages of a disaster relief effort the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50947"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51277,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50947\/revisions\/51277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}