In response to one of our nation’s worst environmental disasters in decades, numerous charitable organizations have established funds to support short- and long-term response efforts following the BP/Deepwater Horizon Gulf Coast oil spill.

If you are a Dayton Foundation donor and use Donor Express, the Foundation’s secure, online fund access system, you may request grants to the following organizations listed below or to any other 501(c)(3) that you know is providing aid. Please specify in the “Grant Purpose” section on the “Grant Recommendation” screen of Donor Express that your contribution is to be made for the organization’s appropriate fund. Links to the organizations websites are listed below if you would like more information about these funds or prefer to send a personal contribution.

The Audubon Society (Click here) is helping animals affected by the spill, as well as restoring the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.

AZA-accredited Zoos and Aquariums (Click here) are helping to help save wildlife impacted by the oil spill.

Baton Rouge Area Foundation (Click here) has established several charitable funds to help ensure that the people who make a living from the Gulf Coast get another chance at making a respectable living, as well as to help save the wildlife.

Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (Click here) is a nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to preserve and restore a sustainable coastal Louisiana. Donations will help manage volunteer recovery efforts.

Community Foundation of South Alabama (Click here) is accepting donations to their Disaster Relief Fund to provide assistance to the coastal communities of South Alabama impacted by the oil drilling disaster.

The Greater Escambia Community Foundation's Pensacola Environmental Relief Fund (Click here) will support nonprofit agencies engaged in first response work to help the communities most affected by the oil spill in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties in Florida.  The goal of the fund is to provide support to organizations in cleanup efforts, as well as for long-term recovery work that is critical to the wildlife and coastal communities.

Greater New Orleans Foundation's Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund (Click here) will support work that helps the communities most affected by the oil spill in Plaquemines, St. Bernard and lower Jefferson Parishes in Louisiana, as well as aid long-term recovery efforts that will help strengthen coastal communities against future environmental catastrophes.

National Wildlife Federation’s Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund (Click here) will help fund immediate animal response work and long-term, on-the-ground effort to protect wildlife, such as restoring nesting and breeding grounds.

Oxfam America’s Gulf Coast Oil Spill Response Fund (Click here) will help provide financial support to individuals in communities that depend on the wetlands and marshes for their livelihood.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana (Click here) is providing immediate food supplies to families in 14 Lousiana parishes that rely on income from commercial fishing, tourism and other support services for their livelihood.