# AFP sets up assistance blog for nonprofits hit by Hurricane Katrina

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/12/06/afp-sets-assistance-blog-nonprofits-hit-hurricane-katrina/
- Published: 2006-12-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

7 Sep 2005

I sent out a message to all AFP members on September 2, letting them know what the
organization was doing in response to Hurricane Katrina. I have received hundreds
of emails from concerned members in support of their colleagues.

As a result we are setting up a Web log (blog) as another communications tool to
connect AFP members with those members in the affected areas. You can reach the 
blog at http://afprc22.blogspot.com/.

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We’ve sent out a personal email to our 180 members in the areas most affected by
Hurricane Katrina, asking them to share their professional needs with us. As we 
hear from these members, we’ll compile and share their needs with everyone else 
through this blog and also ask them to participate directly if possible. In the 
meantime if you have information about members in the affected areas and are authorized
to share that information, please post that on the blog as well. We’ve been getting
inquiries about specific AFP members from their colleagues, and we’d like to report
on everyone’s well being.

I have received emails from AFP members who wanted to help – some had office space
to donate to affected nonprofits, while others had job openings they wished to share
with affected fundraising professionals. We intend to establish a clearinghouse 
for that type of assistance and this blog is part of that process.

I have also been in touch with several executive recruiting firms that have agreed
to donate their expertise in offering career counseling, resume review and relocation
advice to AFP members in the affected areas.

If you have a comment to make on one of the existing topics, please click on the
comment button below that posting. This blog is meant to be a member resource. We
are not going to monitor the blog for content, as we trust all blog users will be
respectful and thoughtful in their comments.

We hope this blog will be useful, and if there are changes that can be made to improve
it, please let us know. We will do what we can to help, as we feel that AFP’s role
in times like these is to continue to provide support through information and the
sharing of resources.

I want to thank everyone for their kind words of support and concern during this
time. I hope together we can continue to do the important work of all our organizations
while being mindful of the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Thank you, everyone, for pulling together!

Best,

Paulette Maehara, CFRE, CAE

President and CEO

Association of Fundraising Professionals

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