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Disaster response: How you can help
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From donating blood to providing tips and info to the FBI, here are ways you can help.
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 To donate blood, call the Red Cross at 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or America's Blood Centers at 1-888-BLOOD-88 to schedule an appointment. To find your local American Red Cross, click here. To donate money to the Red Cross for assisting victims of the attacks, call 1-800-HELP-NOW. To donate to the United Way fund to help the victims of Tuesday's attacks and their families, call Find a wide range of information and phone numbers at FirstGov, the official US government Web site. To make donations to the Salvation Army for helping the victims, call 1-800-SAL-ARMY.  Mercy Corps is providing trauma counseling and scholarship funds for children who have lost parents. Find Family and Friends
Important Numbers
Hotline for families seeking information about victims and survivors: 1-800-331-0075
American Airlines
1-800-245-0999
United Airlines
1-800-932-8555
Greater NY Health Organization is helping to locate family members and accepting reports of missing persons.
- status of family members: 212-560-2730
- to report a missing person: 212-560-8029
The Pentagon has asked personnel to call the following numbers to be accounted for:
- Navy & Marine Personnel: 877-663-6772
- Army Personnel: 800-984-8523
Family members of military personnel seeking information should call 1-800-984-8523 (Army), 1-877-663-6772 (Navy and Marine Corps.), 1-800-253-9276 (Air Force).
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The American Red Cross is providing lifesaving assistance in the form of immediate disaster mass care and blood to victims and emergency workers in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania following the incomprehensible attacks of September 11. The Red Cross will stay with these people as this tragedy unfolds. The Red Cross has been on the scene from the beginning providing disaster support in the form of food, shelter and mental health counseling to all individuals affected. To help the victims of these and other disasters please support the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
Secure credit card donations can be made via any browser supporting the "https" security protocol such as Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, AOL's version 3, Spyglass, and others. If your browser doesn't support https, you will get an error message when trying to access the donation form. Online Donation Form
Donate Your Tax Rebate
Soon you'll receive your tax rebate in the mail. Consider donating your rebate to the American Red Cross to help save lives. You'd be amazed at how far your gift will go to help those affected by disaster:
$600 buys food for a week and clothing for a family of four. $300 buys five days of meals and motel stays for one displaced disaster victim. $250 provides emergency shelter and food for 50 disaster victims for one day. $100 buys replacement prescription medication, like insulin, blood pressure or seizure medication for 3 disaster victims who have lost everything. $50 buys 10 new blankets in an emergency. Your tax-deductible gift— in whatever amount you choose— will provide disaster relief and other essential Red Cross services in your community, and around the world.
Click here to donate securely online. Thank you!
Donate by Phone | Donate by Mail | Donate StockDonate by Mail | Donate In-Kind Products | Donate Spare Change
Donate by Phone Call
1-800-HELP-NOW
(1-800-435-7669)
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Call
1-800-257-7575
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If you wish to make a contribution to your local Red Cross chapter, please mention the Local Community Services Fund when calling in your donation. To donate to our disaster relief operations, please mention the Disaster Relief Fund when donating by phone. And to make a donation to an international crisis, please mention the International Response Fund when donating over the phone. This will ensure that your contribution goes directly to your choice of funds.
Send a check to benefit disaster victims directly.Make your check out to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and mail to the following address:
American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
P.O. Box 37243
Washington, D.C. 20013
Send a check to help those affected by international crises.Make your check out to the American Red Cross International Response Fund and mail to the following address:
American Red Cross International Response Fund
P.O. Box 37243
Washington, D.C. 20013
Securities Delivered Electronically
The following information will enable your broker to facilitate an electronic transfer of stock:
Brokerage:
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Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
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1737 King Street, Suite 100
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Alexandria, VA 22314
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DTC Number:
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0015
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Account Name:
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American Red Cross (Tax ID# 53-0196605)
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Account Number:
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630-038267
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Securities Delivered by Mail
Mail your unendorsed certificate(s) and stock power, in separate envelopes, by registered mail, to:
American Red Cross
Treasury Operations
8111 Gatehouse Road
Falls Church, VA 22042-1203
American Red Cross National Headquarters
Attn: Gift Planning
431 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC, 20006
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 1.800.797.8022
Fax: 202.942.2024
Donate In-Kind Products
The Red Cross is unable to accept small, individual donations or collections of items such as clothing, food or cleaning supplies. The cost to sort, package and distribute these types of donations to a disaster victims is almost always greater than the cost of purchasing the items locally, and it is logistically impossible to distribute a wide variety of individual items in a meaningful way. Because of these cost and logistical concerns, we recommend that you support your community by donating these items to an organization that is equipped to put them to the best possible local use.
Offers of sizeable, bulk donations are reviewed to determine if they meet a current need for disaster victims that can be addressed by the Red Cross. Bulk donations are typically new, shrink-wrapped and palletized items, and they are transported by the donor.
If you would like to discuss this type of donation, please contact your local Red Cross Chapter.
Donate Spare Change Donate Now to the American Red Cross at Coinstar machines
Just by bringing your spare change to the grocery store, you can help the American Red Cross bring relief to disaster victims in your area and across the country.
If half of those American living within 2 miles of a Coinstar machine donated just $1 in spare change to the Red Cross, it would raise more than $65 million to support American Red Cross lifesaving services in communities nationwide!
Find the Coinstar machine nearest you. (Please note that some Coinstar machines are not yet equipped with the donation option. To confirm that your grocery store can accept donations to the American Red Cross, please call 1-800-928-CASH.)
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