AT&T Helps Out With Harvey Recovery

AT&T said Tuesday, Aug. 29, that it will donate $350,000 to aid with relief in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which has caused historic and devastating flooding in Texas.

Of that, $100,000 will go to the Greater Houston Community Fund, $100,000 to the American Red Cross Hurricane Harvey Fund, and $50,000 to the Coastal Bend Community Foundation in South Texas, according to AT&T.

AT&T also said it would match employee donations, up to $50,000, to the AT&T Employee Disaster Relief Fund, to help its own employees in affected areas, and up to another $50,000 to Team Rubicon, a vets disaster response organization.

To donate to the Red Cross, wireless customers can text HARVEY to 90999.

(Photo via Bill Bradford's Flickr. Image taken on March 4, 2016 and used per Creative Commons 2.0 license. The photo was cropped to fit 16x9 aspect ratio.)

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.