Found because of rosefox's post, Snopes, on Looters vs finders.

Foamy, on the hurricane, linked by carocrow. Indeed.

Yes, I donated (to http://www.nyredcross.org/). And rosefox summarizes various posts and links very well. Go read, if you haven't already.

mactavish is compiling a list of organizations of all sizes that are helping out on the gulf coast right now, without much regard to whether they suck in other ways.