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In the three months since Hurricane Katrina, Americans have pledged over $2.7 billion for the relief effort. But some smaller charities have had trouble raising funds for redevelopment work. Join Kojo for a look at the philanthropic response in the Gulf, and where your money is going.
Rev. John Vaughn, Program Director, the Twenty-First Century Foundation
Kathleen McCarthy, Director, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, City University of New York Graduate Center
Xochitl Bervera, Co-director, Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
George Penick, President, Foundation for the Mid South
Walter Strong, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Dillard University
Malcolm White, Executive Director, Mississippi Arts Commission
Experts agree -- it's a humanitarian gesture AND a public relations coup. This month, Venezuela will sell more than 20 million gallons of home heating oil at discounted prices to low-income Americans in Massachusetts and New York. We look at the programs and the reactions they're getting in the US and abroad.
Jose E. Serrano, Congressman (D-NY), US House of Representatives
Bill Delahunt, Congressman (D-MA), U.S. House of Representatives
Michael Shifter, Vice President for Policy at Inter-American Dialogue; and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service
There is no undisputed evidence that they even exist. So how could people be so sure that they have been abducted by them? A Harvard-trained psychologist explains how new findings linking memory and emotion help explain the phenomenon
Susan A. Clancy, Postdoctoral fellow in psychology, Harvard University; author, "Abducted" (Harvard University Press)
Will Bueche, former archivist, The John Mack Institute, who has encounted aliens