we re all weary here. let me ask you lastly how viewers can help. i know there will good a lot of people watching this storm hit south carolina, hit north carolina, wondering how they can help. your organizations and others. give us a sense of what you need at this point. monetary donations are always the best thing, because with storms, you never know what the need is going to be. if you dial 1-800-sal-army, you can give a monetary bone nation there. po box 1959, atlanta, georgia if you want the mail a check. and you can put hurricane dorian in that aspect to help us meet the needs where they re at. and obviously, we re a faith-based organization. so prayer always works. and those are ways that you can help us serve others in the communities where we re at. and when you go to websites, you can obviously sign up and figure out ways you can volunteer in your community and help the salvation army. . that is captain curtis kratz.
we also have the state operations center in austin. we re able to keep situational awareness where we can move to when we see situations that need our assistance. we have the teams standing by in san antonio, ready to move in. just an as soon as the opportunity presents itself, we ll be headed that way. what can people do that are watching this morning? we re going to be in this recovery effort for years. we re going to need people to stay up and give a hand. if you want to donate, go to www.helpsalvationarmy.org or at 1-800-sal-army or text 51555. how has coordination been with local, state, and federal officials in response to the disaste disaster? so they ve been obviously
at the salvation army or have received a gift basket from the salvation army. so today is a very busy day. leland: made possible by all those donations. made possibles by all the nickles, dimes, quarters and dollars dropped into the iconic red kit ills around the country. unfortunately they re finished now. last night the red kettles came off of the streets. but it is not too late to give. leah: since you mention it, how can people give? we ll get right to that. it is important. many of the places we ve been monitoring the country, some are up, some are down so we anticipate we ll be even with last year which is not good. we needed to raise more money than we did last year. but the important thing it is not too late. they can go online to salvation armyusa.org and make a donation. or call one 800-sal-army.
a phone number they can text? right, the most important thing is to get bell back on their feet and putting cash in people s hands. we found through lots of experience, gift cards, visa gift cards, different types of gift cards putting into their hands for food and clothing and essential items so they can get exactly what they need is a far better use of the donor s dole lar than managing donation of material. the recipients, storm victims, are so grateful for that. it gives them a sense of normalcy right away. that is a big piece of puzzle to get back to the normalcy. major, a big thanks to you and all the folks there with the salvation army on the ground helping people out. for more twice help salvation army, you can go to their website, salvationarmyusa.org and there s last phone number on your screen as well, 1-800-sal-army. up next, new policy at starbucks starts today. why that policy extends beyond