Join Our Students in the Carleton Cares Campaign

November 14th, 2005

With a clear sense of interdependence and interconnectedness with all the suffering, people around the country responded with great generosity. With the earthquake in Pakistan, the desire to help moved onto the global stage. Perhaps one of the legacies of these twin tragedies will be a new sense of global community and solidarity.

Carleton students answered with extraordinary energy, led by the ACT Center's AWARE organization (Activating World Awareness Response and Education). Over the weeks of this term, students have raised over $8,000 for Gulf Coast relief. The leaders of AWARE proposed expanding our community response. Working directly with these leaders, we are launching the Carleton Cares Campaign, a faculty and staff fund appeal as part of Carleton's response.

Over the next two weeks, we would like to invite you to make a gift toward relief and redevelopment on the Gulf Coast or in Pakistan. We encourage you to contribute directly to your preferred nonprofit, online or by mail. In addition to Dillard University, the historic black college in New Orleans that was the focus of Carleton's initial response, AWARE looked into a number of nonprofits and we recommend the following for this campaign:

1. Dillard University
2. The American Public School Endowment, Hurricane Education Relief Fund
3. Louisiana Domestic Violence Victim's Hurricane Relief Fund (contributions by mail, phone or fax only)
4. Association for the Development of Pakistan, EDHI Foundation

We would also like to keep track of our community response. Following your contribution, please go to the Gulf Coast Crisis page and enter your contribution on the “Contribute” page. We will post a running total of Carleton contributions. If you have already contributed and would like to enter your prior contributions, there is space for that as well.

Thanks in advance for your generous response to these national and global crises.

- Bill Craine and Doug Mork, Gulf Coast Crisis Team; and Sam Estes, Nathan Kennedy, Molly Klane and Wendy Noel, AWARE

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