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Five College Responses to Katrina: How to Help

In an effort to help the many individual and group efforts taking place on each campus link up with those at the other campuses, Five Colleges will be maintaining this centralized source of information about the Five College response to the devastation of Katrina.

Information is being posted as it is made known to us.

Amherst College

Official response page, including how to donate:
http://www.amherst.edu/news/katrina

Amherst and Williams College support for displaced students of the premedical students at Xavier University of Louisiana:
http://www.amherst.edu/katrina/
marx_letter_9sep05.html

Amherst Christian Fellowship (ACF) response page:
http://www.amherst.edu/~acf/announcements.php

Hampshire College

Official response page, including Hampshire College support for displaced students:
http://www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=7364

Alumni Association link with news blurb including how to donate:
http://www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=7

Mount Holyoke College

Official response page, including how to donate:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/
katrina_update.shtml

Postal information about affected areas:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/postal/
postalserviceupdates.shtml

Notice of Mount Holyoke College support for displaced students:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/
katrina_students.shtml

Smith College

Official response page, including events:
http://www.smith.edu/katrina

Notice of Smith College support for displaced students:
http://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/05-010.html

A Smith College alumna discusses the hurricane, plus how to help:
http://www.smith.edu/news/2004-05/Hurricane
Katrina.html

Smith College Alumnae association "check-in" page:
http://delta.smith.edu/gccheck/gccheck.php?a=sign

UMass Amherst

UMass Amherst support for displaced students and how to donate:
http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/
articles/20545.php

A library guide for research on Katrina:
http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/katrina

Other Resources

Campus Compact:
http://www.compact.org/resource/hurricane.html

Tools for teachers and students:
http://www.servicelearning.org/nslc/hurricane_
katrina/index.php

FEMA
http://www.fema.gov/press/2005/resources_
katrina.shtm

Corporation for National and Community Service
http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/donations/

Page updated 9/9/05

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