Hurricane Katrina Relief

UNI students, faculty and staff:

The devastation from Hurricane Katrina calls for an immediate and timely response from the university and our community. The citizens of the Gulf Coast need our thoughts and help as they cope with this disaster and begin to rebuild their lives. To that end we are seeing a tremendous willingness and effort throughout the university to find ways to contribute to the relief effort and provide badly-needed help for those in the storm-ravaged areas.

Staff and faculty have been working to aid our students from the Gulf Coast and continue to evaluate how we can further help them and their families. We also are extending whatever help we can to the faculty and students of our sister institutions, Xavier, Southern and Dillard Universities in the New Orleans area.

We're also taking stock of relief efforts already underway by our student, faculty and staff organizations and will communicate those efforts in the days ahead.

It is very apparent that the need will continue in the weeks and months ahead so immediate donations to credible relief organizations are still desperately needed.

There are links to aid agencies, opportunities to help, relief updates and other hurricane-related news listed below. This will also serve as a clearinghouse for any ideas you have on how to help.

    - President Robert Koob

UNI Organizations:

Submit your information to be listed on this page and the Relief Events page.

Do you have suggestions for helping? E-mail umpr@uni.edu

University-Related Relief Information

• Relief Efforts at UNI
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• CampusRelief.org
• Educause: Technical Assistance
• Financial Aid Information for Affected Students
• Society for College and University Planning

News

• CNN Hurricane Coverage
• FoxNews: Locating Hurricane Katrina Survivors
• Weather Channel
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Resources

• UNI Counseling Center
• Faculty & Staff Services
• Managing Traumatic Stress After Hurricane Katrina
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Agencies Providing Assistance

• Black Hawk County Deisaster Relief Project
• Volunteer UNI
• American Red Cross *
• American Red Cross - Hawkeye Chapter
• United Way
• Cedar Falls Jaycees
• Northeast Iowa Food Bank
• Salvation Army
• Adventist Development and Relief Agency International
• United Jewish Federation
• Catholic Charities
• Islamic Circle of North America
• B'nai B'rith International
• Episcopal Relief and Development
• Mennonite Disaster Service
• Union for Reform Judaism
• Methodist Relief
• Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
• Humane Society of the United States (aiding pets and farm animals stranded by the storm)

Note: Many UNI departments and programs are planning their own fundraising initiatives and there are a number of fundraising activities that have been organized by UNI student groups, community organizations and individuals from the campus and community. For information about these other giving opportunities, please check the News section of this web page periodically.

*Disclaimer: Inclusion of the names of various charities in no way constitutes an endorsement, express or implied, of any presentation by or activity at the University of Northern Iowa.

Hurricane Katrina NOAA-17 satellite imagery courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center.