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Some corporate donations are coming in according to the American Red Cross: Target has announced a $1.5 million donation to the American Red Cross, with $500,000 going for immediate relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina, and an additional $1 million for ongoing disaster relief and preparedness. In addition to cash contributions, Target is offering much-needed real estate in Louisiana to the Red Cross to establish a central command center supporting the most heavily impacted areas of the storm. Target is also looking into real estate availability in Alabama and Mississippi. Target is coordinating large-scale distribution of essential products requested by the Red Cross, including such items as water, ice, energy bars and bug spray. Stores in the affected areas have been given additional funds to provide in-kind product donations and grants to local nonprofit organizations. Our teams also will provide volunteer support. [press release] Grainger (NYSE: GWW), North America's leading distributor of facilities maintenance supplies, has pledged more than $1 million in cash and emergency supplies such as tarps, gloves, flashlights and batteries to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund to help communities and businesses recover following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The company also is encouraging its employees to contribute to the recovery efforts by providing a four-to-one match of employee gifts to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. [press release] BP Foundation has donated $1 million to the Red Cross and will also match the contributions of BP employees to the disaster relief effort. [press release] Chevron Corporation today announced it is making a commitment of $5 million to support recovery efforts in the communities affected by Hurricane Katrina. This includes a $3 million contribution to the American Red Cross in support of disaster relief efforts in Louisiana, Mississippi and other affected areas following further analysis of the devastation. The remaining $2 million will go to local charities and relief efforts near Chevron businesses in affected states, as determined by the Company. [press release]
The most important and valuable person that can give financial aid is you. Millions of us acting together, just giving a donation that we can afford, can cumulatively eclipse all the financial donations by the large donors. We can step up and help. Just this morning, I read a comment on Interdictor's blog about the students at Deland High School, here in Central Florida, who have simply banded together and donated one dollar each to their local Red Cross chapter. This is how we all band together to make a difference. The following retailers continue serving as Red Cross Official Cash Donation Sites where members of the public, during their everyday errands, can conveniently make a contribution to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund:
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| J f Z September 4, 2005 07:59 PM PDT  I watched the NBC special LIVE. I mentioned this on the main tag board when it happened, but I just wanted to add it to this thread, here. When rapper Kanye West went off script and blurted out, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," live, the look on Mike Myers' face who was standing next to Kanye West was described later by one commentator as: "It was as if Mike Myers bent down to tie his shoe laces at the airport and then glanced up to see a 747 about to land on him" That exactly what Mike Myers looked like, too. A producer then quickly cut backstage and surprised Chris Tucker, who could only adlib, "Help, help, help ..." in musical fashion. At the time, I was watching this with my chin on the floor. When they cut to Tucker, I didn't know if he was asking for help for hurricane victims or for someone to magically make him disappear after Kanye West's comments. To debate whether or not West's comments were appropriate or not should be a full blown entry on Dark Skies ... long after hurricanes victims get the comfort and care they deserve. While West may have been trying to highlight a valid concern in a brash way, the forum in which he chose to make it wasn't appropriate, in my humble opinion. I wanted to bring this up because all you folks who watched it on tape delay didn't see that LIVE little adlib. It was cut from the show. | ||
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