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Hugging the Process of the Person Getting Home
My family and I moved back to New Orleans in February 2006. At that time I began attending meetings at the Sanchez Center with different organizers from around the country to help people with the right to return. We sat in circles and talked, and NENA grew out of that [...]
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Trust Your Crazy Idea
Idea Village was founded in 2000 by five local entrepreneurs who were all from New Orleans and had moved away in the mid-eighties. We moved back home in 1998 and 1999 to start new businesses, but the collective feeling amongst us was that the city was [...]
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Untold Stories of the Recovery: The Power of the Nonprofit Effect
As we mark the fifth anniversary of Katrina, we need to acknowledge the role that nonprofit leaders have played in the region’s recovery. They helped save their neighbors and their neighborhoods. They’ve marshaled armies of volunteers to help rebuild the fabric of our city. Five years later, they’re still at work. Cindy Nguyen, Vietnamese Initiatives [...]
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A Place Where People Want to Be
Jeff Schwartz with Broad Community Connections is making Broad Street a place where people want to linger. Broad Community Connections was founded in 2008 on the premise that we wanted to make Broad Street somewhere that people wanted to come to. BCC’s overarching vision is to create a vibrant place that maintains the cultural resonance [...]
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Hugging the Process of the Person Getting Home
Patricia Jones with the Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association is creating change one home at a time. My family and I moved back to New Orleans in February 2006. At that time I began attending meetings at the Sanchez Center with different organizers from around the country to help people with the right [...]
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We Started in 1727
Martin Gutierrez with Catholic Charities is ensuring the success of the Hispanic immigrant population. Hispanics and immigrants have been in New Orleans from the beginning. Before Katrina, we had 80,000 to 100,000 Hispanics in the Greater New Orleans area. Within maybe a year after Katrina, this number jumped all the way up to perhaps 150,000. [...]
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