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What Can We All Do to Help?
We at Harvest Co-op express our horror, sorrow, and outrage over
the loss of life and suffering the terrorist attacks have caused
Americans and other members of the world community. Harvest has
made a donation to the September 11 Relief Fund of the Cooperative
Development Foundation, set up by the National Cooperative Business
Association, see below.
Here are a few of the ways you can help right now:
Make a Donation
National Cooperative Business Association
September 11 Relief Fund of the Cooperative Development Foundation
Funds will assist cooperators and their families with grief counseling
and other needs as identified.
Make checks payable to:
Cooperative Development Foundation, indicate the "September
11 Relief Fund"
Mail to: 1401 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 1100, Washington DC, 20005
Questions can be directed to Ellen Quinn with CDF at equinn@ncba.org,
or call 202-638-6222.
September 11 Relief Fund for
Farmers
Please send a donation
On Tuesday, Sept. 11th, 2001, as the first plane hit the World Trade
Center in New York City, approximately 25 market farmers had their
produce displays set up at the WTC Greenmarket at Church and Liberty
Streets. These market farmers come in from Long Island and upstate
NY, NJ, PA and MA.
The WTC Greenmarket had opened as usual at 8 am.
It has been reported that all of the participating
farmers and their helpers made it out alive — but most of them
lost all of their vehicles, displays, produce, cash and personal
belongings. Insurance coverage for these losses is limited at best.
Your help is desperately needed. Please assist the farmers who escaped
but are suffering due to Tuesday's tragedy.
Please write a check or money order payable to:
"Fund for the WTC Greenmarket Farmers" and send it to:
The Farmers' Market Federation of New York
2100 Park St., Syracuse, NY 13208
American Red Cross
National Red Cross
A check to this fund will benefit disaster victims directly.
American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
P.O. Box 37243
Washington, D.C. 20013
Local Red Cross
They are working with families of the 157 people on the two airlines
from Logan who died Tuesday.
America Red Cross
ARC of Massachusetts Bay
285 Columbus Ave.
Boston, MA 02116-5114
United Way, September 11th
Fund
This will be used to respond to the immediate and longer-term
needs of the victims, their families and the communities.
Pledge by phone: 1-800-710-8002
The following list is being circulated by Working
Assets, it has some different groups from those being
widely circulated. Harvest has not checked each one of these sites,
so please use your own good judgement if you make donations or contact
them.
Ways that you can help
Aid to Victims
Many organizations are collecting funds for use in supporting the
relief
efforts now going on and in assisting the victims in rebuilding
their lives.
The need is so new that there is little detail on precisely how
the funds
will be used. Here are a few organizations which have mobilized
already.
International
Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Charity Fund
http://daily.iaff.org/fund.htm
Americares
- Aid for Terrorist Attack Victims
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=eCgb0BBnBA0BC40QMY0AK
Second
Harvest
http://www.giveforchange.com/cgi-bin/GiveForChange.storefront/EN/product/SEA
-36-3673599-00
The
Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org
The
September 11th Fund
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=eCgb0BBnBA0BC40QMm0Ae
Middle East Peace, Justice
and Reconciliation
Here are groups that are working for peace, justice and reconciliation
in the Middle East. Recognizing that nobody has yet claimed responsibility
for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, these seven groups
all do important work. Please note that all work in this area is
risky and controversial. All are working on long term efforts that
hold some promise.
Working Assets does not specifically endorse the precise
approach of each of the groups - indeed, some are in conflict with
each other. May peace and compassion be our watchwords in the difficult
days, weeks and months ahead.
Grassroots
International
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=eCgb0BBnBA0BC40QMb0AT
New
Israel Fund
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=eCgb0BBnBA0BC40QMc0AU
MADRE
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=eCgb0BBnBA0BC40QMd0AV
Global
Exchange
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=eCgb0BBnBA0BC40QMe0AW
American
Friends Service Committee
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=eCgb0BBnBA0BC40QMf0AX
Mercy
Corps International
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=eCgb0BBnBA0BC40QMg0AY
Middle
East Research Information Project
http://www.giveforchange.com/cgi-bin/GiveForChange.storefront/EN/product/MER
-04-2552770-00
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