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Here’s how to help Tennesseans impacted by the tornadoes

Damon MitchellWPLN News
Tiffany Campbell's parents made it through the tornado unscathed. Their home did not.
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At least 10 tornadoes touched down in Tennessee over the weekend, causing intense damage and claiming at least four lives in West Tennessee. The tornadoes ripped across nearly 70 miles of Middle Tennessee, impacting 20 counties.

As recovery efforts continue across the state, here’s how you can help:

Donate to disaster relief funds:

Red Cross

The Community Foundation

Verified GoFundMe pages

Salvation Army

Donate blood:

Tennessee Red Cross

Volunteer:

Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort

Tennessee Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster

Update your volunteer profile for future events with Hands on Nashville

For a list of how to contribute to Kentucky’s recovery efforts, visit WFPL for their round-up.

This is a developing list of ways that community members can help in the wake of the tornadoes. If you have more ideas of how to help, please send a note to [email protected]. This post was updated Monday afternoon with the number of tornados confirmed by the National Weather Service. 

Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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