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A List of Organizations Accepting Donations to Provide Disaster Relief

Compiled From Staff and Wire Reports
Friday, February 4, 2005; 5:37 PM

Here are some of the local and national organizations accepting donations to help victims of the South Asian tsunami. Most groups recommend that people donate cash rather than supplies.

Some Web sites, such as the Network for Good, allow people access to listings of U.S.-based charitable organizations in a searchable database. Amazon.com also enables users to route donations to organizations from its homepage.

How to Give Charitably and Safely

• Give only to legitimate charities recognized by the appropriate governmental bodies in their countries.

• Ask questions of the charity, and check www.guidestar.org for information provided by certain charities to the IRS. Find out how the charity plans to use your money.

• Make sure the charity site uses encryption. The letters https://, rather than http://, should precede the page's URL, and/or an unbroken key or padlock symbol should be in the corner of the Web browser.

• Try to give directly to the charity. If the charity has no online giving opportunities, consider contributing to www.networkforgood.org, which provides all registered charities in the United States with the capability to receive online donations.

• Check for a privacy policy concerning the use of your name, e-mail address or other personal information. Don't disclose personal information unless you know who is collecting the information and how it will be used.

• Print a copy of the final confirmation page that appears on your computer screen when you have made your gift, and keep a copy of any e-mail confirming the gift for your records.

• Look for contact information, which reputable charities will provide.

• Request regular information from the charity on its Web site or in e-mail updates.

SOURCE: ePhilanthropy Code of Ethical Online Philanthropic Practices



		Did You Donate? Have you donated money to any organization helping the Asian tsunami victims? If so, Washington Post staff writer Jacqueline Salmon would like to hear from you. Please e-mail her at salmonj@washpost.com and include your name and phone number.

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More information about donations to humanitarian organizations can be found on the U.S. Agency for International Development's Web site, www.usaid.gov.

Donors can also call the Center for International Disaster Information at 703-276-1914.

Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th St.
New York, NY 10018
212-967-7800
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org

ADRA International
Asia Tsunami Crisis Fund
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
800-424-ADRA (2372)
http://www.adra.org

Air Serv International
6583 Merchant Place, Suite 100
Warrenton, VA 20187
http://www.airserv.org

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.
DC-South Asia Tsunami Relief
P.O. Box 321
847A Second Ave.
New York, New York 10017
212-885-0832
http://www.jdc.org

American Jewish World Service
45 W. 36th St., 10th Fl.
New York, NY 10018
212-736-2597
http://www.ajws.org

American Red Cross
International Response Fund
P.O. Box 37243
Washington, D.C. 20013
800-435-7669
http://www.redcross.org/

AmeriCares
88 Hamilton Ave.
Stamford, CT 06902
800-486-4357
http://www.americares.org

Association for India's Development Inc.
AID Zone 3
P.O. Box 4801
Mountain View, CA 94040-0801
http://www.aidindia.org

Baptist World Aid
Asia Tidal Waves
405 North Washington St.
Falls Church, VA 22046
703 790 8980
http://www.bwanet.org/bwaid

B’nai B’rith International
B’nai B’rith Disaster Relief Fund
2020 K. St. NW
7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
212-490-3290
http://www.bnaibrith.org

Brother’s Brother Foundation
1200 Galveston Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15233
412-321-3160
http://www.brothersbrother.org

CARE
151 Ellis St. NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
800-521-CARE
800-422-7385
http://www.care.org

Catholic Relief Services
209 West Fayette St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
877-HELP-CRS
http://www.catholicrelief.org

Christian Children’s Fund
Child Alert Fund
PO Box 26484
Richmond, Virginia - 23261-6484
800-776-6767
http://www.ChristianChildrensFund.org

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
South Asia Earthquake
2850 Kalamazoo Ave. SE
Grand Rapids, MI, 49560
800-55-CRWRC
http://www.crwrc.org

Church World Service
PO Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515
800-297-1516
http://www.churchworldservice.org

Direct Relief International
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
805-964-4767
http://www.directrelief.org

Food for the Hungry
Asia Quake Relief
1224 E. Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85034
800-2-HUNGERS
http://www.fh.org

Friends of the World Food Programme
P.O. Box 11856
Washington, D.C. 20008
http://www.friendsofwfp.org

Global Fund for Children
1101 Fourteenth Street NW
Suite 910
Washington, DC 20005
202-331-9003
http://www.globalfundforchildren.org

GlobalGiving.com
Tsunami Relief Efforts
7121 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 652-8455
http://www.globalgiving.com/tsun.html

Helen Keller International
352 Park Avenue South
12th Floor
New York, NY 10010
877-535-5374
http://www.hki.org/about/tsunami_relief.htm

India Development and Relief Fund
4807 Phebe Ave.
Fremont, CA 94555
http://www.idrf.org

International Aid
17011 W. Hickory
Spring Lake, MI 49456
800-968-7490
http://www.internationalaid.org

International Medical Corps
Tsunami Emergency Response
1919 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 300
Santa Monica, CA 90404-1950
800-481-4462
http://www.imcworldwide.org

International Relief Teams
Asia Earthquake/Floods
3547 Camino Del Rio South
Suite C
San Diego, CA 92108
619-284-7979
http://www.IRTeams.org

International Rescue Committee
PO Box 5058
Hagerstown, MD 21741-9874
877-REFUGEE or 733-8433
http://www.theIRC.org

Islamic Relief
818-238-9520
http://www.islamic-relief.com/

The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Southeast Asia Disaster Relief Fund
6101 Montrose Rd., Rockville, Md. 20852
In the memo line of your check, write: SDG05DRT
301-770-4848
http://www.shalomdc.org

Latter-Day Saint Charities
Welfare Services Emergency Response
50 East North Temple Street, Room 701
Salt Lake City, Utah, 84150-6800
801-240-3544
ldscharities@ldschurch.org

Lutheran World Relief
South Asia Tsunami
700 Light St.
Baltimore, MD 21230
410-230-2700
http://www.lwr.org

MAP International
P.O. Box 215000
Brunswick, GA 31521
800-225-8550
http://www.map.org

Mercy Corps
Southeast Asia Earthquake
Dept. W
PO Box 2669
Portland, OR 97208-2669
800-852-2100
http://www.mercycorps.org

Mercy-USA for Aid and Development
Tsunami Disaster Relief
44450 Pinetree Drive, Suite 201
Plymouth, MI 48170-3869
800-556-3729
http:www.mercyusa.org

National Association of Realtors
REALTOR Tsunami Relilef Project
ATTN: NAR Finance Division
430 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago IL 60611
https://www.realtor.org/

Operation Blessing International
Operation Blessing Disaster Relief Fund
977 Centerville Turnpike
Virginia Beach, VA 23463
800-730-2537
http://www.ob.org

Operation USA
8320 Melrose Ave. 200
Los Angeles, CA 90069
800-678-8876
http://www.opusa.org

Oxfam America
Asian Earthquake Fund
PO Box 1211
Albert Lea, MN 56007-1211
800-77-OXFAM
http://www.oxfamamerica.org

Plan USA
Asia Disaster
155 Plan Way
Warwick, RI 02886
800-556-7918
http://www.planusa.org

Project Concern International
Asia Tsunamis Press List
5151 Murphy Canyon Road
Suite 320
San Diego, CA 92123
858-279-9690
http://www.projectconcern.org

Project HOPE
Asia Tsunami Response
255 Carter Hall Lane
Millwood, VA 22646
800-544-4673
http://www.projecthope.org

SAWSO (Salvation Army World Service Office)
South Asia Relief Fund
615 Slaters Lane
Alexandria, VA, 22313
800-SAL-ARMY
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org

Save the Children USA
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
1-800-728-3843
http://www.savethechildren.org

Stop Hunger Now
SE Asia crisis
2501 Clark Ave, Suite 200
Raleigh, NC 27607
888-501-8440
http://www.stophungernow.org

Tsunami Relief Inc.
9302 Lee Hwy.
Fifth Floor
Fairfax, Va. 22031
703-934-6922

United Methodist Committee on Relief
South Asia Emergency #274305
475 Riverside Drive, Room 330
New York, NY 10115
(800) 554-8583
www.methodistrelief.org

US Fund for UNICEF
General Emergency Fund
333 E. 38th St.
New York, NY 10016
800-4-UNICEF
http://www.unicefusa.org

World Concern
Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
19303 Fremont Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98133
800-755-5022
http://www.worldconcern.org

World Emergency Relief
2270-D Camino Vida Roble
Carlsbad, CA 92009
760-930-8001
http://www.worldemergencyrelief.org

World Vision
P.O. Box 70288
Tacoma, WA 98481-0288
888-56-CHILD
http://www.worldvision.org

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