Salon.com Life | Connected giving - NP: "Connected giving
Americans who want to give more than cash to help Katrina victims are using the Internet to send diapers, baseball gloves and CDs directly to the disaster area.
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By Lynn Harris
Sept. 10, 2005 |
Last Thursday, Karen Gurwitz drove all over Manhattan picking up boxes of baby clothes, formula, diapers and other goods from shower caps to baseball gloves. On Friday morning, two trucks -- their services donated -- filled with those offerings left for a hurricane shelter in Baton Rouge. Through word of mouth, mostly electronic, Gurwitz had collected donations from 150 people in under a week -- the busy week after Labor Day, no less. 'I made a financial contribution to the Red Cross, but it never feels like enough,' says Gurwitz, 36, founder of a meal delivery service called Mothers & Menus. 'I wanted to give something more tangible than my credit card number.'"
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