The City of West Hollywood has activated its West Hollywood Responds program to help facilitate contributions from local residents, businesses, and others.

Donations to Aid Victims of the Wildfires in Maui, Hawaii

The City of West Hollywood is encouraging community members to take part in donating to organizations that are in urgent need of contributions to provide support to people in Maui who have been displaced by devastating wildfires. The following organizations are providing immediate relief and resources:

American Red Cross

American Red Cross is providing services to victims of Hawaii Wildfires. This includes providing shelter, food, and comfort, as well as moving more relief supplies to Maui from the mainland and distributing food and relief supplies as soon things are in place to make this possible:
https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2023/red-cross-helps-as-wildfires-burn.html

Maui Food Bank

Maui Food Bank’s mission is to help the hungry in Maui County by collecting and distributing food through community partnerships. Maui Food Bank is accepting donations, as each dollar received can buy four meals for those in need:
https://mauifoodbank.org/donate

Maui Strong Fund

The Maui Strong Fund – organized by the Hawai‘i Community Foundation (HCF) – is providing financial resources that can be deployed quickly, with a focus on rapid response and recovery for the devastating wildfires on Maui:
https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong

Maui United Way

Aloha United Way has created the Maui Relief Fund that will go directly to efforts supporting victims of the fires to provide immediate financial assistance through grants to nonprofits at the forefront of relief efforts, as well as directly to households that have been deeply affected:
https://mauiunitedway.org/disasterrelief

World Central Kitchen

World Central Kitchen (WCK), founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés following a devastating earthquake in Haiti, served 16,000 meals served in the first week following the Maui fires. WCK’s Relief Team is providing public meal and water distribution to Maui’s hardest-hit areas:
https://wck.org/news/hawaii-fires-update

Donations to Aid Victims of the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

The City of West Hollywood is encouraging community members to take part in donating to organizations that are in urgent need of contributions to provide support to people in Turkey and Syria following powerful magnitude earthquakes that have struck the region. Thousands of people have been killed and tens of thousands have been injured. The following organizations are providing immediate humanitarian relief and resources:

Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders is a humanitarian medical aid group providing medical supplies and support to 23 hospitals treating earthquake victims in Idlib and Aleppo in Syria. It has started a donation page for its earthquake recovery efforts:
https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/turkey-syria-earthquake-onetime

GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving connects emergency relief nonprofits around the world with donors. The group launched a disaster relief fund to support recovery efforts in Turkey and Syria:
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/turkey-earthquake-relief-fund/

International Blue Crescent Relief and Development Foundation
The International Blue Crescent Relief and Development Foundation has offices in Gaziantep, Turkey, near the epicenter of the quake, and has been working to dispatch teams to the affected communities in both Turkey and Syria:
https://www.ibc.org.tr/EN/CATEGORY_18/emergency-relief

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Red Crescent organizations in both Turkey and Syria have mobilized teams helping with recovery and aid efforts. Both organizations are members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, an international network of disaster relief agencies:
https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2023/red-crescent-teams-responding-to-earthquake-in-turkey-and-syria.html

Operation USA
Operation USA is mobilizing material aid including safety equipment, medical, and first aid supplies and other relief items for shipment to impacted areas of the earthquake:
https://give.opusa.org/give/34510/#!/donation/checkout

Project HOPE
Project HOPE, a U.S.-based international humanitarian aid nonprofit, said it deployed emergency response teams to Turkey and Syria and set up a disaster relief fund:
https://secure.projecthope.org/site/SPageNavigator/2023_02_SyriaEarthquake_UnrestrictedWeb.html

Save The Children
Save The Children, the international youth humanitarian aid group, has set up an emergency relief fund for earthquake victims: https://support.savethechildren.org/site/Donation2

Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS)
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is on the ground in Syria responding to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Syria, Turkey, and the region:
https://www.sams-usa.net/press_release/7-8-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-syria-and-turkey-and-sams-responds/ and https://www.sams-usa.net/donate

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
The UNHCR is currently in Turkey and Syria providing high thermal blankets, mattresses, kitchen sets, plastic sheeting, jerry cans, sleeping mats, winter clothing kits, and winter jackets:
https://donate.unhcr.org/int/en/turkiye-syria-earthquake-emergency

UNICEF
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has mobilized aid to Syria, and is focusing on assessing the impact the quake had on water stations and any other interruptions to services, as well as helping unaccompanied children find their families:
https://www.unicefusa.org/?form=FUNNPGQXEGQ

Donations for Resources and Support for Ukrainian Refugees

In Ukraine, the unprovoked attack of Russian military forces has caused an immediate crisis of human suffering and need. In the City of West Hollywood, our thoughts turn to the people of Ukraine and to our community members of Ukrainian descent and from former Soviet republics, many of whom are deeply concerned about family and friends in the region.

Many West Hollywood community members are asking what they can do to help people in Ukraine and to help people who have been forced to flee from their homes and communities there.

The City of West Hollywood has assembled a list of nonprofit organizations that are in need of donations in order to provide support in Ukraine such as emergency relief, medical aid, humanitarian aid, and more. Click here for details.

Charity Navigator

When donating, community members may visit Charity Navigator, which objectively reviews charities. For more information, please visit www.charitynavigator.org.