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A few times on my blog, I write a request or plea  for readers to support the recovery efforts for those ravaged by some catastrophic event (whether caused by the hand of nature or man).  In this instance, I ask for those reading this lend a hand to those affected byt Hurricane Irene, which has impacted the East Coast of the United States and is moving it’s way north towards Canada.  What I am asking for is simple.  If you can afford to give your money, time, and/or whatever else you can to help, please do so.  At the very least, please keep informed of what’s happening to our neighbors to the east and help spread the word. 

One simple and immediate way to help that I thought of this morning is if you can postpone pre-planned trips back east, please do so.  Also, if you are on the East Coast and have plans to make your way towards the west, or elsewhere (especially for business or leisure), please consider postponing those plans to free up availability to allows travelers back east to go home.  I am not asking to incur major upheavals in your own life, but if a business meeting you have planned can be put off to help parents get home to their kids, or can help reunite a couple estranged by distance, please consider that.

If you are stuck on charities to contribute time and money too, how about these?:

American Red Cross

http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.53fabf6cc033f17a2b1ecfbf43181aa0/?vgnextoid=19eddb420d602310VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e6c7aaf9bc911310VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default

Network for Good

http://www1.networkforgood.org/HurricaneIrene?source=AOL&cmpgn=NEWS

Operation USA

https://donate.opusa.org/?

DirectRelief International

http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2011/HurricaneIrene.aspx

Operation Blessing International

https://secure.ob.org/site/Donation2?df_id=5560&5560.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=cx25h5nj21.app246b

AmeriCares

https://secure.americares.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1505&1505.donation=form1&linkid=topnav

Feed The Children

https://secure2.convio.net/ftc/site/Donation2?df_id=2090&2090.donation=form1&s_src=org_disaster_relief

NOTE: By listing these charitable organizations, I am not providing any explicit or implicit endorsement of any of them.  For anyone that contributes funds, time or any other resources to these organizations, please ensure that you vet them thoroughly and make an informed decision as to whom among them is worthwhile to contribute to.  In other words, Caveat Emptor (translated from Latin for “let the buyer beware”).

My thanks to the Huffington Post for providing the links and descriptions for these charities.  To read their original blog post from 8/27/2011 regarding How You Can Help, please click below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/27/hurricane-irene-how-you-c_n_938603.html

Thanks.