Contribute to the AFT Disaster Relief Fund

AFT affiliates and members can help by making contributions to the AFT Disaster Relief Fund, which provides direct assistance to AFT members who are victims of natural disasters.  Click here to make a contribution online.

Or, you may send your contribution, made payable to the AFT with "disaster relief" written in the memo portion of the check, to:

AFT Disaster Relief Fund
Attn: Connie Cordovilla
555 New Jersey Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC  20001

The IRS has now approved the AFT Disaster Relief Fund as a charitable entity under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All contributions to the fund made since the hurricane's landfall (Aug. 28) are tax deductible to the extent permissible by the law.

A special hurricane relief fund has been set up within the AFL-CIO's Union Community Fund, labor's charity for working families and communities in distress. The Union Community Fund is working with the labor federations in the affected states and with relief organizations to target help to our working brothers and sisters who need it most. UCF is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) public charity. Donations to UCF are tax-deductible to the extent permissible by law. Click here to make a contribution.

The AFL-CIO Office of Community Services has teamed up with the Red Cross to solicit 1,000 volunteers for three-week assignments to work in shelters. The Red Cross is describing this as a "hardship assignment;" there is no housing available and volunteers will sleep where they work. Red Cross will provide meals. Union volunteers can send an e-mail to hurricanevolunteers@aflcio.org

Through www.hurricanehousing.org, a project of MoveOn.org, you can offer free housing to hurricane victims. If you want to offer housing specifically to a teacher, school support staff member or college faculty member, you can make that notation in the description portion of the form, but please follow the guidelines outlined by MoveOn.org.