The insurance industry will be responding under innumerable policies applicable to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina -- as will the public as the ultimate funders of the National Flood Insurance Program -- but industry-related organizations are also responding by providing and facilitating charitable support to the recovery effort.
Here is an Insurance Journal report -- "Industry Reaches Out to Lead Hurricane Katrina Recovery Efforts" -- on California's own Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, which is accepting donations itself (instructions on giving directly through IICF are in the Insurance Journal article) and providing links to other organizations and resources.
Individual insurance companies are also promising significant contributions as part of their ongoing charitable activities. Two randomly selected examples:


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