SDMB Katrina Donation File

$20 to Brother’s Brother Hurricane Relief Drive. I wish I could give more, but I have rent and food and textbooks to worry about. :confused:

Total $6325

Dollar amounts?! Come on, people. Just give your money and quit patting yourselves on the back. And don’t tell me you’re just trying to determine how much the Dope has contributed, because you’ll never, in a million years, get an accurate idea. This is just crass.

Ogre, this is not the thread for opinions on the motivations of the dopers who have posted in this thread. No one asked you. If you have a problem with it why don’t you express it in the pit.

Keep it coming folks ! :slight_smile:

$100 to the Red Cross. Uni says it will match, but I gave before they said this… so in discussions to see if they will match my earlier gift.

Total $6425

My $20 makes it $6445.

$6545 includes my 100 donation to ARC.

If you give through the Barry Manilow fund, your donation is double matched (Barry gives you a buck and his foundation gives you a buck). I wish I knew this before.

Here be the link. http://www.manilowfund.com/

Note: All money goes to the American Red Cross!

$100 sent via American Red Cross. My company doesn’t match, damn their eyes. Wish I’d seen that Barry Manilow thing.

$6645 total. Keep it goin’, Dopers!

Spent an hour agonizing over who would put money to the best use and decided that I’d split my donation between the Red Cross (immediate help) and Save the Children (long-term help). Total: $200.00.

Doper Total: $6845

This right here is justification enough for this thread! I plan to give more as it becomes feasible, and now I know of a better place to do it than the local grocery store. Thanks, **sj2 ** (and Barry)!

We had our check ready for Thomas to take to work on Tuesday, but reading this, we decided to donate through manilowfund instead, so that makes our donation $450 instead of $300, so add another $150 to the total:

$6,995

I’ll express it (without personal insult) any fucking place I want to. Especially here, where it’s happening. I invite you, conversely, to take it to the Pit if you don’t like it.

I donated to Red Cross, talked my roommate into donating, and also skimmed some out of the pot (with the players’ unanimous approval) of the poker tournament I was hosting last night, bringing the total up to $7,310.
Oh, and Ogre: First, go watch the scene from the Simpsons episode with Krusty’s father in which they debate whether one should give charity publically or not. And then, bite me.

In all seriousness, I don’t think anyone really intended this to be a “who can donate the most” kinda thread. Your assumptions making it sound as if it was, are a bit misplaced.

$25 to Convoy of Hope through my church.

Total - $7335

No, in fact, you won’t. If you have a problem, take it to the Pit; this thread isn’t the place for your dissatisfaction.

Don’t do it again.

I expressed my dissatisfaction. It’s done. And I most certainly will do it again if I feel it’s justified.

I have broken no board rules, so do whatever it is you feel you have to.

$45…so far, to the Red Cross.

Total = $7380

No, you won’t do it again. This forum and the threads within are not here for you to hijack with a hissy fit just because you feel it’s warranted. Furthermore, telling a moderator that you’re going to continue doing something you’ve been instructed not to do doesn’t fly very well. I suggest you think your actions over carefully before you travel down that path.

Any further comments from you on this matter can and will be handled in either a Pit thread or e-mail. Your choice. Whichever you choose, you’re done in this thread.