[Ansteorra-announce] [Announcements] Regarding Hurricane Katrina

[LMOORE2122 at wi.rr.com]

Greetings,

We are all saddened and affected by the terrible aftermath of 
Hurricane Katrina, especially those of us in Meridies and Gleann 
Abhann.  I know many of you have already opened your hearts, 
pocketbooks, houses and sewing rooms, etc to the victims.  Thank you.  
This support of each other is one of the things that makes the SCA so 
strong.

Below is a message from Susan Early, the Society Exchequer, regarding 
financial donations for relief.  I know this information has been 
widely distributed, but we wanted to make sure everyone who needs it 
gets it.   Each kingdom should have a disaster coordinator in place 
through the seneschal’s office.  

There is a web site referenced below 
http://maxandlethrenn.org/hurricane_relief/ that is being 
coordinated through the Kingdom of Meridies.  It contains lots of good 
information on how you can help, so please bookmark this for future 
reference, and check here if you want to do something specific.

With warm regards, and hope for the future,

Linda Moore
President, SCA Inc.


-------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- 
From: suzanearley at comcast.net 
To: SCA-Disaster at yahoogroups.com, SCA-911 at yahoogroups.com, sca-
exchequers at yahoogroups.com 
Subject: [SCA-911] SCA Disaster Funds 
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:14:19 +0000 

SCA BRANCHES MAY DONATE TO OTHER 501(c)(3) ORGANIZATIONS. This 
includes the American Red Cross, Unicef, the Salvation Army, etc.
 
SCA BRANCHES MAY DONATE TO OTHER SCA BRANCHES. However, please wait at 
least a month or two, so that the exchequer is ready to handle the 
donations. They may have RealLife(tm) to handle right now and sending 
them a check when they have no access to the bank would not be 
helpful. If a branch wants to donate SCA equipment or regalia, please 
check with the branch first to make sure that what you want to give 
them will be a) needed and used, and b) not also promised from another 
branch. No one wants to have 12 sets of thrones and no banners, 
coronets or pavilions.
 
SCA BRANCHES MAY *NOT* DONATE TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT ONLY BENEFIT SCA 
MEMBERS. There are already two charities set up to specifically 
benefit SCA members - Medieval Disaster Relief 
(http://maxandlethrenn.org/hurricane_relief/) and Chateau Teafort 
Foundation (http://www.fanucci.org/aid.html). SCA funds may NOT be 
directed to these organizations, but both organizations will happily 
take personal donations. You can even get a spiffy CD from Chateau 
Teafort.
 
It is *excellent* that we have an organization where so many people 
are willing to help out our cousins in the affected areas. I would 
caution that any aid that requires attention from any of the affected 
people right now would not be as helpful as it would be in a couple of 
months. They have more basic needs to attend to at this time, and 
those needs are best handled by the professionals.
 
Please feel free to copy this to any appropriate lists.
 
Susan Earley
Society Exchequer
SCA, Inc.


Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to: 
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas,  CA 95036

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