Rebuilding New Orleans
This page contains links to just a few of the many non-profit organizations that are working to rebuild the New Orleans area. Please take some time to visit their web sites and learn about the good work that they are doing.
Education:
- The Good Shepherd School
- Cafe' Reconcile
- New Orleans Outreach
- New Orleans Science and Math Charter High School
- Making It Home Again:Our Return in Words and Pictures - by the students at Sophie B. Wright Charter Middle School
- Teach for America -Greater New Orleans
- Wade in the Water -this is the web site for a documentary film shot by the students at the James Singleton Charter School
- Teaching Responsible Earth Education (T.R.E.E.)
- Youth Rescue Initiative
- Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools
- NOLA Kids Rising
- Kid smArt
- Girls First
- Start the Adventure in Reading ("STAIR")
Rebuilding Homes and Neighborhoods in New Orleans
- The Green Project
- New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity
- Preservation Resource Center
- Crescent City Farmers Market
- The Mow-Rons: Weeding by Example
- TeensLead.org
- The Urban Conservancy
- Youth Rebuilding New Orleans
Rebuilding Our Cultural Resources- Keeping the Arts Alive
- Tipitina's Foundation
- ARTDOCS
- KARES ("Katrina Arts Relief and Emergency Support")
- Recycle for the Arts
- Young Aspirations/ Young Artists ("YA/YA")
- The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation
Environmental Groups
- Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
- Gulf Restoration Network
- Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation
- Levees.org
- Louisiana Bucket Brigade
- Replant New Orleans
- The Green Project
- Hike for KaTREEna
- Green Light New Orleans
Advocacy Groups
- Women of the Storm
- Citizens for 1 Greater New Orleans
- Friends of New Orleans
- Young Leadership Council
Loyola University Projects:
The Corporation for National and Community Service named Loyola University New Orleans to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for its community service activities during the 2006–2007 academic year.
- March 31, 2008 update from Fr. Kevin Wm. Wildes, SJ
- Loyola New Orleans Alliance for Hope
- National Geographic worked with our photojoournalism students and local high school students to create "After the Disaster: A Look at New Orleans"
- Loyola University Community Action Program("LUCAP")
- Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy
- Twomey Center for Peace through Justice
- Jesuit Social Research Institute
- The Loyola Corps
See Resources for Families Impacted by the Fall 2005 Hurricanes for links to the major agencies working on the rebuilding effort.
"We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed: perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down but not destroyed...So we do not lose heart" 2 Corinthians, Chapter 4, verses 8-9, 16