Below are links to national charities that provide much-needed food and social services to those left high and dry by this recession as well as links to organizations that provide opportunities to get involved in various ways.

Let’s face it; this recession, which Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman thinks is really a depression, is not going away any time soon. I urge you to contribute whatever you can, either in time or money, to the organizations listed below.

– Blair Adams