Tornado Assistance

The United Way of Central Alabama has established several ways to donate:

• The Text-to-donate number is:  Text TORNADO to 50555 to donate $10.
• The website to donate is http://www.uwca.org/.
• The mailing address to donate is: UNITED WAY TORNADO RELIEF FUND, P.O. Box 320189, Birmingham, AL 35232.
• The toll-free call-in number is 1-855-205HELP. This number will only be active from 5am EDT Wednesday 4 May through 3am EDT Thursday 5 May.

Alabama Orthopaedic Clinic has partnered with Volunteers of America – Southeast to collect items for the tornado victims.

Beginning Monday, May 2, 2011, AOC will be a collection site for donations and care packages for the tornado victims in Alabama. AOC will prepare care packages and deliver to Volunteers of America so the packages can be sent to where they are needed most.

The following items are needed in shoebox style plastic containers with lids.
1. Gift Cards
2. Toilet paper
3. Toiletries – travel size preferred

• Toothbrushes/Toothpaste
• Shampoo
• Soap – travel size in Ziploc bag
• Baby Shampoo/Wash/Lotion
• Feminine Products
• Razors
• Deodorant
• Band-aids
• Hand sanitizer

4. Flashlights/Batteries
5. Colors and Coloring books
6. Power Bars/Granola Bars/Lunch Box size Crackers
7. Pedialyte (they make on-the go packets as well as the bottled kind)
8. Crystal Light/Gatorade type (single serving)
9. Baby Bottles/Pacifiers
10. Shoebox size containers – Rubbermaid, Glad, etc… or actual Shoeboxes

These items can be brought separately or can be made into care packages and labeled as Adult Female, Adult Male, Child, and Infant.

The following items will be collected and do not have to fit into the individual care packages:

1. Diapers

2. Wet Wipes/Diaper Wipes

3. Wash Cloths/Towels

4. Ziploc Bags

5. Bottled Water

Drop-off areas will be located on the 1st floor of Alabama Orthopaedic Clinic, 3610 Springhill Memorial Dr North, Mobile, AL 36608.

Dog House Grille
The Dog House Grille is collecting Donations for Tornado Victims in Alabama. Toiletry items such as wash cloths, soap, diapers, shampoo. Any Clothes, blankets, can goods, bottle water please drop them off at the Dog House Grille in Gulf Shores from Friday 4/29 thru Wed.5/4 from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. We are taking up cash donations as well and want to help a few needed families directly through First Baptist Church in Pleasant Grove. 

FBC Gulf Breeze
Drop-Off Location: We have a trailer set up in the Brunos Parking Lot on Hwy 98. We will be open 8AM till 6 PM.
The church will deliver the supplies to FBC Rainsville as soon as the trailer is full and they will distribute to needy families.
100% of donations will go to victims in the Fort Payne, Alabama vicinity.

Items needed:
Bottled Water
Baby Wipes
Batteries
Flash Lights
Hand Sanitizer
Non-perishable Food
Toiletries
Blankets
Personal Hygiene products

Camping World Robertsdale
Camping World in Robertsdale, AL is accepting donations of clothing, food, baby items, pet supplies, cleaning supplies, medical supplies, and anything that people could use and will be sending an 18-wheeler up the evening of Tuesday, May 3rd.
The store will even make arrangements to pick up donations for those that may not be able to bring them in.
People can call the store at 251-947-9910 or 888-445-5990 for more information.

City of Fairhope
Donations are to be taken to the Rec Center/Swimming pool on Greeno Rd.  
More donations will be accepted again Monday at the Nix Center, between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m

No clothes please!

Non-perishable food items, cleaning supplies (rubber gloves, mops, brooms, clorox, dish detergent, etc.) , bottled water, toiletries, pet supplies, baby items, emergency supplies (matches, batteries, lighters, flashlights), etc.



RE/MAX of Gulf Shores
RE/MAX of Gulf Shores is sending a truck of supplies to north Alabama Monday.
Items needed include: 

Pedialyte
Water
Gatorade
Tarps
Batteries
Nonperishable foods - cans
Protein bars
Solar lights
Diapers
Toiletries


McConaghy Drugs & Home Medical and C&M Vital Care
A van with relief supplies will be leaving Satsuma Friday, May 6th.
Donations can be dropped off at McConagy Drugs in Satsuma, Mt Vernon Pharmacy, McIntosh Drugs and Millry Drugs.

Prudential Cooper Real Estate
411 Azalea Road, Mobile, AL 36609
(251) 344-5925 or (800) 264-1925
Collecting Food, Clothing, Supplies
Making Delivery to Tuscaloosa on Tuesday, May 3
 
Alabama Central Credit Union: All Branches Collecting Food
All branches of Alabama Central Credit Union will serve as food collection sites for the local food banks. 

Alabama, April 29, 2011:  All Alabama Central CU branches will serve as drop off sites for those looking to donate food to the local food banks.  Please bring non-perishable food items to your local branch during our business hours (9AM – 5PM, Monday – Friday). 
Branch locations:
250 West Oxmoor Rd, Homewood, AL 35209
3601 4th Ave So, Birmingham, AL 35222
3048 Finley Island Circle, Decatur, AL 35601
1902 Bruin Drive, Florence, AL 35631
797 Downtowner Blvd, Mobile, AL 36689
743 East Avalon Ave, Muscle Shoals, AL 35662
13831 Highway 43, Russellville, AL 35653
423 15th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 (Closed until Monday, May 2, 2011)
 
Pet Supplies “PLUS”
Due to the recent devastation our state has experienced Pet Supplies “PLUS” will be collecting donations April 29, 30 and May 1, 2011 to help the tornado victims in the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham areas of our state.  All proceeds will be given to the Alabama Red Cross and earmarked for Tornado Relief.

Shiloh Baptist Church in Saraland Alabama
has set up a collection center for donations for the tornado victims across Alabama.  Shiloh Baptist is coordinating with Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief to bring much needed supplies to tornado devastated areas around Alabama particularly Shiloh is coordinating their efforts with Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  The immediate need is bottled water, energy drinks, and power bars.  Right now there has been no requests for clothing.  Shiloh Baptist Church will be taking supplies to Tuscaloosa as donations arrive. 
The collection center will be open Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm; Sunday 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm; and Monday through Friday next week from 8:30 am till 4:30 pm.  Shiloh is looking for donations, people to help operate the center and anyone who would like to help in making deliveries. Shiloh Baptist Church is located at the corner of 2nd Ave and Cleveland Rd. in Saraland, Alabama.
For more information, people can visit our web site at www.shilohbc.com or call us at 251.675.3587.  Point of Contact is Robert Lutz, Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church – 251.656.4878.

EASTERN SHORE CHAMBER ENCOURAGES YOU TO DROP OFF ITEMS IN FAIRHOPE for "We Care Baldwin County" to distribute:
The City of Fairhope will be collecting items to send to Tuscaloosa and northern Alabama at the James P. Nix Center. The items will be transported by "We Care Baldwin County" lead by local residents Bobby and Lori Clark. This group organized just after Hurricane Katrina and has been instrumental in helping rebuild homes in New Orleans and Mississippi. All types of supplies are needed including batteries, bottled water, toiletries, baby items, non-perishable foods, clothes, blankets, towels, cleaning supplies, work gloves, trash bags and other necessity type items. For questions, call 251-990-0218 or drop off items at the Nix Center on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon and through next week.

First Baptist Tillman's Corner (5660 Three Notch Rd. Mobile, AL)
The church will accept items for tornado victims today (Friday) from 9am until 8pm in the Welcome Center. Needs are: bottled water, sports drinks, snacks, power bars, blankets, coolers, diapers and baby wipes, personal toiletries (toothpaste, hand sanitizer, wipes). NO CLOTHING CAN BE HANDLED AT THIS TIME. For more info, call 251-661-0114 or email: info@fbtc.org

Freckles Personalizations & Gifts
2410 Dawes Rd
Mobile, AL 36695-7713

We have been personally affected by yesterday's storms. We are headed to Tuscaloosa tomorrow & hope to take as much stuff with us as possible. We are collecting canned goods (with pull tops), bottled water, tarps, personal hygiene items. If you can donate anything, please drop by the shop or call us at (251) 633-4654 and we will arrange pick up.

Bel Air Mall Blood Drive
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Bel Air Mall, Target Wing
Mobile, AL

(Mobile, AL)- Volunteer blood donors in Mobile will get a chance to give blood and save lives at the Bel Air Mall blood drive, scheduled for Tuesday, May 3 from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m. in the Target Wing of Bel Air Mall.

Because blood can be separated into three components – blood, platelets and plasma – one donation can benefit up to three individuals. Because it takes up to three days for blood to be processed and made available to hospitals, it is important that a donation be made ahead of an emergency. If everyone who was eligible would donate four times a year, there would never be a blood shortage.

If you plan on giving blood, make sure to prepare yourself for the process. Double your fluid intake in the 48 hours leading up to the drive. Make sure to eat a nutritious meal the night before, as well as the day of, the blood drive. Eat iron-rich foods such as lean beef, broccoli, eggs, greens, shrimp or dried beans. Also consume foods rich in Vitamin C, such as citrus fruits, cabbage, tomatoes and sweet potatoes. Make sure to get a good night’s sleep before the drive.

All presenting volunteer donors in the months of April, May and June will be entered into a regional drawing for one of two pairs of round-trip tickets on Delta Air Lines as part of the “Spring to the Skies” promotion. Bel Air Mall merchants have also assembled goodie bags for all presenting donors, including gift cards and coupons.

The American Red Cross, Blood Services, Alabama and Central Gulf Coast Region , which supplies blood to approximately 100 hospitals, needs 600 blood donors each day in order to meet the needs of patients in the region. Blood donors must be at least 17 years old and weigh at least 110 pounds. Please call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or visit www.redcrossblood.org to make an appointment to donate blood or platelets.