And I am sure with donations reaching record highs churches truly NEED government reimbursement....... I'm sure none of the groups listed below will help the churches..... the churches need government to help.
Wonder what the churches are bringing in?
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Katrina Donations Surge Past $1.3 Billion By The Associated Press
16 minutes ago
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:
_The Red Cross, which focuses on emergency relief, had received $977 million as of Tuesday, almost halfway to its goal of $2 billion, a milestone that would shatter the donations record for the organization set after the Sept. 11 attacks.
_The Salvation Army, which handles both short-term relief and long-term recovery, has received more than $185 million, by far its record for any disaster and more than doubled what it received after the Sept. 11 attacks.
_The Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, which intends to distribute its donations in consultation with governors of the stricken states, has received more than $100 million.
_America's Second Harvest, which supplies food banks, has collected $18.6 million in cash and nearly $50 million in food products.
_The United Way of America has received about $20 million earmarked for Katrina relief. The agency hopes donors will remain supportive of charities not involved in hurricane relief but which combat poverty and other social problems that Katrina helped draw attention to.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050928/...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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