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7 Gifts that Give Back to the World

Richard Walden | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact

Read More: New Orleans, Africa, Vitamin A, Toilets, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Awesome Girls, Water Wells, Holiday Gifts, Disaster Relief, Oprah, Health Insurance, Community Clinics, Nicaragua, Micro-Credit Loans, Thephilippines, Impact News
Richard Walden

This holiday season there are a number of ways you can donate to powerful causes in honor of family and friends that they would wholeheartedly endorse in lieu of a gift.

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The Story of CAN-DO: Enough Is Enough

Eric Klein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact

Read More: Refugee Camps, Relief, Disaster Relief, Tsunami, Volunteering, Sri Lanka, Nonprofits, Southeast Asia, Aid, Rebuilding, Donations, Fundraising, Accountability, Can-Do, Impact News
Eric Klein

CAN-DO was born out of my own frustration with the system and the critical need I saw to hold charitable organizations accountable for hard-earned donations and to the communities they serve.

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Put Kids on Obama's New Orleans Tour

Mark Shriver | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Craig Fugate, Natural Disasters, Fema, Disaster Relief, President Obama, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mark Shriver

Katrina affected everybody in New Orleans, but the long term effects of days in crowded shelters, months of homelessness, and years of changing schools have proved especially destructive to children.

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American Samoa Governor: "I Don't Think Anybody Is Going To Be Spared In This Disaster"

AP | ROD McGUIRK and AUDREY McAVOY | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: Samoa, Samoa Tsunami, Survivor Samoa, Natural Disasters, Disaster Relief, South Pacific, Earthquake Flattened Villages Samoa, World News

APIA, Samoa — Police searched a ghastly landscape of mud-swept streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed surv...

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Worst Typhoon in Decades Strikes The Philippines

Richard Walden | Posted 11.28.2009 | World

Read More: The Philippines, Typhoon Ketsana, Disaster Relief, Manila, International-Relief-Organizations, Operationusa, World News
Richard Walden

LOS ANGELES, CA (September 28, 2009)-- Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced that it was preparing relief supplies to ...

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Planning for Nuclear Terrorism as Well as the Flu

Arnold Bogis | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Natural Disasters, Dirty Bomb, Disaster Relief, Swine Flu Outbreak, Nuclear Disaster, Nuclear Weapons, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Disaster Preparedness, Pandemic, Nuclear, Outbreak, Nuclear Bomb, Politics News
Arnold Bogis

Local officials should not delude themselves into thinking that existing plans for responding to dirty bombs can be simply expanded to deal with nuclear terrorism.

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Giving FEMA the Green Light

Kelly Caldwell | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disaster Preparedness, Craig Fugate, Fema, Florida Floods, Disaster Relief, North Dakota Floods, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Natural Disasters, Politics News
Kelly Caldwell

It is not enough to either sit by and hope that each president makes disaster-recovery a priority, or to spread urban legends designed to make FEMA as popular as Guantanamo Bay.

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China's 10 Million Quake Victims Remain Victims

Richard Walden | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Katrina, Disaster Relief, Honeywell Hometown Solutions, Operation Usa, China, Sichuan Earthquake, Honeywell Corporation, World News
Richard Walden

China's 10 million-plus victims of last May's Sichuan Earthquake remain largely in massive temporary prefabricated housing complexes, in tents or under blue tarps in partially damaged homes.

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TVA Disaster Spreads Far and Wide

Erin Brockovich and Robin Greenwald | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: TVA Spill, Disaster Relief, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee, Erin Brockovich Tva, Erin Brockovich, Green, Environment, Erin Brokovich Coal Spill, TVA Disaster, Tva, TVA Coal, Erin Brockovich Tennessee, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News
Erin Brockovich and Robin Greenwald

It occurred to me that maybe more was going on at the site of the 1.1 billion gallon coal ash spill in Tennessee than what I could gather from the news. With an invitation from the community, I decided to make the trip to the disaster site.

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Seth Colter Walls

New Ad Mocks GOP Skills At Disaster Management

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Natural Disasters, Accountable America, Disaster Relief, Politics News

The independent liberal group Accountable America is coming out with a new 60-second spot that tweaks some familiar GOP talking points on the economy....

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Operation USA Named #1 Privately Funded Charity

Richard Walden | Posted 11.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Disaster Relief, International Relief, Charity Navigator, Operation Usa, Personal Finance, Us Government, Worldbank, Nongovernmental Group, Fema, Non-Governmental Relief, Living News
Richard Walden

Most of the large brand name relief groups derive 20-75% of all their funds from US government agencies but non-governmental Operation USA is not beholden to political winds.

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Two Worlds

Sam Greenfield | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Texas, National Association of Broadcasters, Hurricane Ike, Disaster Relief, Hurricane Gustav, Media News
Sam Greenfield

They looked like they didn't have a lot of money. They didn't look like they were there for the NAB. They weren't. They were victims of Hurricane Ike.

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Bush Favors Texas Over Louisiana -- Even Bobby Jindal Notices

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Ike, Bobby Jindal, Disaster Relief, Hurricane Katrina, Jindal Katrina, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Governor Jindal has noticed a disparity between the federal government's willingness to lift a recovery burden off the state of Texas and its refusal to do the same for Louisiana.

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Ike and Gustav Reveal America Is Unready to Protect Children During Disasters

Mark Shriver | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hurricane Ike, Fema, Hurricanes, Disaster Relief, Children, Earthquakes, Hurricane Gustav, Politics News
Mark Shriver

While the federal disaster relief agencies are there to protect us, there is one tragic and gaping hole in our disaster relief system: the protection of our kids.

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Hurricane Relief Will be Hampered By SBA Budget Cuts

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Small Busniess Administration, Small Business, Disaster Relief, Economy, Middle Class, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Ike, Sba, Disaster Loans, Asbl, American Small Business League, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Relief to small businesses and homeowners recovering from this season's round of hurricanes will be dramatically hampered by a series of severe Bush A...

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No Time for Subtlety

Arthur Fournier | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Natural Disasters, Extreme Weather, Flood, Miami, Water, Haiti, Hurricanes, Disaster Relief, Disaster Relief Organizations, Politics News
Arthur Fournier

Most of Haiti's 8-12 million people live in an inaccessible interior, rarely visited by the press, who focuses more on the coastal areas of the country.

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How Mean Can the Bush Administration Be?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Disaster Relief, Cuba, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike, Foreign Aid, US Foreign Aid, Condi Rice, Hurricane, Embargo, Fidel Castro, Cuban Relief Aid, Disaster Aid, Relief Aid, Cuban Aid, Hurricane Aid, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

The Bush administration has offered $100,000 worth of aid to hurricane-battered Cuba; this is but a pittance compared to what is needed by one of our closest neighbors. Someone should remind Bush that the Cold War is over.

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All But Ignored: Gustav Deals Major Blow to Baton Rouge and Indian Tribes in South Louisiana

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Hurricane Gustav, Terrebonne Parish, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Landrieu, Disaster, Disaster Relief, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

Local radio coverage is "pathetic," Wirt said in frustration, urging citizens journalists to try to make contact with the Terrebonne Indian tribe "who did not dodge a bullet."

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Gustav Information Center

Craig Newmark | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change, Disaster Relief, Hurricane Gustav, Politics News
Craig Newmark

Hey, still of great pertinence is the Gustav Information Center, thanks to Andy Carvin. It consolidates a lot of good info, and will be the basis of ...

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Emergency Cyclone Aid vs. Human Rights In Myanmar

Richard Walden | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Burma Cyclone, Disaster Relief, Human Rights, Human Rights Groups, Myanmar, Burma, Myanmar Cyclone, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Politics News
Richard Walden

Most people think everyone engaged in relief, development, and human rights basically have shared goals. But there's a shocking split between human rights and relief communities.

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Serving the People vs. Clinging to Power

Philip Slater | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Administration, Disaster Relief, China, Burma, Sichuan Quake, Myanmar Junta, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, China Earthquake, Katrina Relief, Bush Katrina, Politics News
Philip Slater

It's useful to compare the way China handled its national disaster with the way the Burmese handled the cyclone, and the way our Republican administration handled Katrina.

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