I've already urged everyone to donate to the Red Cross to help hurricane victims, but wanted to remind you that your local chapter of the Red Cross also needs donations--those pay for the help given to people after local disasters, like house fires, etc., and on the whole, probably help even more people than in the big disasters. You can make contributions to national/internation disaster relief and to your local chapter at http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main
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