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Wednesday September 28, 2005 7:46 PM
By The Associated Press
Dozens of nonprofit organizations are raising money for short-term relief and long-term recovery in response to Hurricane Katrina, and total donations a month after the disaster have surged past $1.3 billion.
In the aftermath of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans gave charities $2.2 billion - almost half to the American Red Cross. After the South Asian tsunami last December, they donated $1.3 billion.
The latest figures provided by some of the groups responding to Katrina:"
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