Hurricane Sandy city relief effort: volunteer opportunities

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Rockaway Beach, Friday 11/2/12 Photo: Sam Brand

 

The clean up from Hurricane Sandy has just started; if you’d like to help, here are connections:

A continuously updated list of requests for help from organizations around the city.

http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/sandy-volunteer-update-for-sat-113-sun-114/

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Another list of volunteer opportunities:
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/own-this-city-blog/how-to-help-in-new-york-city-after-hurricane-sandy

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By neighborhood (list under construction):

Staten Island was hard hit:
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/how_you_can_help_staten_island.html

http://gothamist.com/2012/11/02/runners_everyone_heres_how_to_help.php

Red Hook was hard hit:
https://www.facebook.com/RedHookInitiative

There’s a crowdsourced geography tool that you can use to help FEMA identify areas in need in of relief:

http://www.geographictravels.com/2012/11/be-hurricane-sandy-disaster-response.html