NYC transit is slowly creeping back to life (unless you live off the G or L) and so are we. There’s no better way to shake off a week of Sandy-induced cabin fever than helping your fellow New Yorkers get back on their feet after the worst storm since more or less ever. If you’re the helpful sort — and we definitely think you are — here are a number of ways to help. You can donate your time, your money, or your know-how. You can even help by Tweeting.
- First, you might like to sign up for the Hurricane Sandy clean-up volunteer database for Bill de Blasio’s Public Advocate office.
- The New York Red Cross needs medical professionals and shelter volunteers.
- The innovative Team Rubicon is sending military vets and medical professionals to help. Not you? They’ll also accept your money.
- To help the hungry in New York, consider donating or volunteering for the Food Bank for New York City. This organization has been helping NYC’s nearly 3 million hungry for the past 29 years.
- Food Not Bombs provides food and logistical support, and they need your help. Citymeals is looking for volunteers for the remainder of the week.
- CrisisCommons is coordinating a CrisisCamp this weekend for designers, coders and other tech-savvy folk everywhere from Seattle to New Zealand. If this kind of thing is in your wheelhouse, you might explore the hashtag #HurricaneHackers on Twitter for the latest opportunities.
- If you’re looking to help animals both domestic and wild, the Humane Society is accepting donations and reuniting owners with their lost pets.
- You can also focus your help on a particular neighborhood. Recovers.org offers a kind of volunteer/donation connection board for the communities of Red Hook, Astoria, and the Lower East Side. CAAAV, a pan-Asian community organization, is helping Chinatown get back on its feet and is seeking volunteers and donations.
- Part of our heart lives in DUMBO, and there are ways to help. Galapagos Art Space has a fundraising page for their $80K rebuilding effort, and you can check dumbo.is for donations and ways to volunteer for the whole neighborhood.
- You can send hygiene kits to victims of the Hurricane by supporting Clean the World on RocketHub.
- Got office space with electricity to share for freelancers in the dark zones? Get on Twitter with the hashtag #SandyCoworking.
- Don’t have time to volunteer? The Salvation Army will gladly accept financial donations.
