Hurricane Sandy: How to help!

Not everyone was as lucky as we were. 

So if you want to help, here are nice options to do so: 

• To volunteer send an e-mail to: nycservice@cityhall.nyc.gov with your name, e-mail address and borough. Someone will contact you.
• The red cross is also looking for volunteers and donations: http://www.nyredcross.org
• Another way to volunteer: http://newyorkcares.org
• Volunteer sign-up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG5JTldNeTRMTFhPTVFYWE1rYl9CWnc6MQ#gid=0
• Other ways to donate: 
• https://donate.salvationarmyusa.org/disaster; 
• http://www.aidmatrixnetwork.org; 
• http://www.thethinredline.org/relief-fund.html; 
• http://feedingamerica.org; 
• http://www.worldvision.org; 
• http://%20www.savethechildren.org
• To register for assistance: http://www.disasterassistance.gov

There are also other ways to help out locally. If you live close to a shelter, check if they are in need of clothes or toys for the kids. Some of them had to flee their houses and didn't have time to take their belongings with them. I'm still looking around my neighborhood, but a friend has already told me that in the upper west side, there is a shelter at Louis Brandeis high school (west 84th street), where there are kids between 3 and 10 years that would very much appreciate anything to distract them (crayons, paper, stickers, toys, books, etc) and there is another one at Hunter College.

List of shelters in New York: http://www.nyc.gov/html/misc/html/2012/hurricane_shelters.html

If you hear of any other ways to help, please let me know, so that I can keep updating this post and we can try to reach out as many people as we can. 

Thanks!