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Key Contact Information
Last Updated: Thursday, September 15, 2005
KEY DUKE CONTACTS
- Elaine Madison, Director, Community Service Center
Information: volunteering, service
elaine.madison@duke.edu
- Eric Van Danen, Director of Communications for Student Affairs
Information: notification of fundraising activities/benefits, educational programming, and medical relief efforts
eric.vandanen@duke.edu
- Durham County is assisting families displaced by Hurricane Katrina and has assigned two social workers to work with them and the community:
Winnie Breeden: 919-560-8378
Jack Ramsay: 919-560-8356
Email inquiries: hurricanehelp@co.durham.nc.us
- Members of the Duke Religious Life staff are available to students from the Gulf coast area who might desire pastoral/spiritual support, including:
Pastor Craig Kocher
craig.kocher@duke.edu
Father Joseph Vetter
joev@duke.edu
Rabbi Michael Goldman
michael.goldman@duke.edu
Other members of the Duke Religious Life staff are also available and can be found at http://www.chapel.duke.edu/life/religious/
RESOURCES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
- CampusRelief.org The American Council on Education and the National Association of College and University Business Officers created this website to enable institutions needing assistance to connect with those that can help.
SERVICE AGENCIES
- The American Red Cross 1-800-HELP-NOW
Mail: (Make checks payable to Central North Carolina Chapter)
American Red Cross
P.O. Box 52509
Durham 27717-2509
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American Red Cross
100 North Peartree Lane
Raleigh, NC 27610
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- Salvation Army 1-800-SAL-ARMY
Checks: send checks, earmarked 'disaster relief,' to:
P.O. Box 4857
Jackson, MS 39296-4857
- FOODBANK of Central & Eastern North Carolina: Accepting paper goods, single-serving snacks, cleaning supplies, peanut butter, single-serving meals that do not require refrigeration. Drop-off
sites are at:
708 Gilbert Street, Durham (919-956-2513)
3808 Tarheel Drive, Raleigh (919-875-0707)
- Helping Hands: A local organization collecting gloves, shovels, water,toiletries and nonperishable foods to be taken into disaster areas.
Donations may be dropped off at:
Helping Hand Mission
623 Rock Quarry Road in Raleigh through Sept 5.
Call 919-829-8048 for more info.
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Katrina Volunteeer Call Center 1-866-KATMEDI (1-866-528-6334)
- US Department of Health and Human Services
A website for health care professionals to volunteer their services for the relief effort.
Please visit fill out the on-line form. Volunteers who meet requirements and the current volunteer needs will be contacted by the Office of the Surgeon General.
- FEMA through National Emergency Resource Registry 1-800-440-6728.
If you have an offer of goods or services, please contact us to list your resources. A representative will take your name and information on how to contact you, as
well as what type of goods or services you wish to donate. Donation offers may include temporary housing for disaster victims, vehicles, construction
equipment, food, clothing, or other offers that may assist those displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
- U.S.A. Freedom Corps This organization has been set up by the White House to help coordinate volunteerism.
- Hurricane Housing Offering free shelter for those in need.
- ASPCA Disaster Relief Fund (212) 876-7700 information@aspca.org
- America's Second Harvest 1-800-344-8070
- MercyCorps an international humanitarian relief and
development organization with programs in over 35 countries worldwide
- Louisiana Disaster Recovery FoundationA foundation to accept donations for
the long-term reconstruction of the state.
Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation
c/o Division of Administration
1201 North Third Street, Suite 7-240
P.O. Box 94095
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9095
- AmeriCares
- Charity Navigator
- NAACP Disaster Relief Fund
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