Community Resource Center has a temporary warehouse and is working with the Mayor’s Office. Check out their blog for pics of how the flood impacted their office and storage space:

If you have the time and the means, donate. CRC is the official arm of the Mayor’s Office for pushing out donations to those who need them most. We are working with Hands On Nashville to get them distributed. Bring your donations to A+ Storage, 911 Division Street, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Contact information is on our website.

So here’s a personal story – as if this were not personal enough already – to end for tonight. We got a frantic call from a Hands on Nashville staffer at the Bordeaux center today. He needed EVERYTHING. We had just gotten our wholesale shipment in but didn’t have much else, it being the first day and all. We told him to come on and we’d get him what we could. An hour later, before he arrived, Jae Nash from WVOL 1470 radio station brought in everything he needed. The “stuff” came in. It went right back out. And that’s the point, of course.

Many, many people will be working for weeks and months to come to help our most fragile citizens. Do not forget us. Please, I beg of you, do not forget us.

From the Tennessean:

Money, volunteer tutors and pencils are still on Homework Hotline’s wish list just days before resuming operation for the new school year on Monday.

The agency, which serves children in Middle Tennessee, is short on its annual budget, director Wendy Kurland said. As a result, it cannot expand beyond its current 16 phone lines, pay additional teachers to answer calls and offer help in more foreign languages.

“We’re already turning away half of the callers,” Kurland said. “We’re filled to capacity almost every night of the year now. What we need to do is add more phone lines and teachers, and we don’t have the money to do that now. That really worries me, because now the (academic) standards have changed.”

Homework Hotline’s annual budget is $185,000, Kurland said, and the group is about three-quarters there. Its funding comes from various sources, including corporate sponsors, school districts, grants and donations.

To donate money or volunteer to tutor, call 298-6636, visit www.homeworkhotline. info or e-mail homeworkhotline@earthlink.net.

For homework help, call 298-6636 or toll-free 888-868-5777 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

 Homework Hotline is a finalist for the Frist Foundation Making a Difference Award. The winner will be announced at Salute to Excellence 2009 on September 17.