Where and What to Give for #SandyRelief

Immediate Help: Call 311 if you or someone you know is in immediate need of assistance.

On Monday, WABC will participate in a "Day of Giving" do stay tuned to Eyewitness News on how you can donate.

 To Donate Now and Volunteer:

• NYC Service and NYC Service On Facebook

• Send Checks To:
Mayor's Fund To Advance New York City
253 Broadway, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10007

• NYC Blood Center

• Aidmatrix Network for Humanitarian Relief

• UJA-Federation of New York

• American Red Cross

Community/Faith-Based Groups:  Check with your local Congregations.

Manhattan:
• Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation (Lower Manhattan): 1-212-965-1151
• The Church of the Covenant, 310 East 42nd Street between First and Second Avenues: Currently seeking canned food, bottled water, toilet tissue, feminine products, diapers, baby wipes, batteries, plates, forks. Baby food is especially needed. Will also take gently used coats and sweaters.

Brooklyn:
Red Hook Initiative (Red Hook): 1-718-858-6782, www.rhicenter.org.

Queens:
Christ Tabernacle Church & Assemblyman Mike Miller's office (83-91 Woodhaven Blvd.): 1-718-496-2515.
Sikh Cultural Society (South Richmond Hill, Queens): 1-718-441-0513.

New York Archdiocese Collection: Cardinal Timothy Dolan has called for a special collection to be taken up this weekend at all parishes within the Archdiocese of New York.

NYPD Donation Drive:  To help assist New Yorkers citywide in areas worst affected by the hurricane, the New York City Police Deaprtment will collect non-perishable food, clothing, and other donations in the parking lot of 110-00 Rockaway Blvd. in Jamaica, Queens, which can be accessed from 109th St. & Rockaway Blvd. near JFK airport.  Uniformed Community Affairs officers will be accepting the donations daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and then delivering the items to locations citywide impacted by the storm. Anyone who wants to give is urged to donate canned goods, canned milk, bottled water and other non-perishables; paper products, personal and baby care products, trash bags, cleaning products, linens and towels, flash lights, batteries; clothing for colder weather. Money is not accepted.

For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/NYPD#!/NYPD/posts/379085022168286.

• Volunteer for NYC Parks:
- Bronx: Van Cortlandt Park, Orchard Beach (Click here to volunteer.)
- Brooklyn: Prospect Park, McCarren Park (Click here to volunteer.)
- Manhattan: Happy Warrior Playground, Annunciation Park, Carl Schurz Park, Anne Loftus Playground (at Fort Tryon Park), Randall’s Island (Saturday only) (Click here to volunteer.)
- Queens (Friday and Saturday only): Brookville Park, Baisley Pond Park (Click here to volunteer.)

• Food Bank Of New York City

• New York Cares

• Team Rubicon

• Occupy Sandy Relief

• The Lower East Side Recovers

• Staten Island Recovers

• Astoria Recovers

• Red Hook Recovers

• Councilman Brad Lander's storm relief for Brooklyn

• Follow #SandyVolunteer on Twitter for more ways to help

• iTunes/App Store: Hurricane Sandy Relief

Salvation Army - if you are an individual, donate locally as you normally would do anytime.

• For corporations, organizations, restaurants and others able to donate food, water or supplies, please send an email to logistics@GNYSalvationArmy.com.

• For financial donations:
o Online: Visit www.salvationarmyusa.org.
o By Phone: 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769)
o Text-to-Give: Text the word STORM to 80888, and confirm the donation with the word “Yes”
o By Mail: Checks may be designated and made payable to The Salvation Army Disaster Services Center, PO Box 1959, Atlanta, GA, 30301

 

Lost Pets or Rescue Animals:

Humane Society of the US

American Humane Society 

 

Comments

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A few buddies and I are Atlanta Plumbers. We are traveling up this week to help restore Staten Island victims plumbing back to normal. I hope that plumbers from areas that weren't effected join in the relief effort. God bless the people who are suffering.

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