Progress Reports
Annual Reports
2009 Community Revitalization Annual Report: Greater Progress
This report details the first three years of the Fund and showcases our greater progress towards a more effective, responsive, equitable housing system for New Orleans.
2007-2008 Community Revitalization Annual Report: A Work in Progress
This report captures the progress of the Community Revitalization Fund in 2007-2008. Plagued by a lack of decent, affordable housing before the storm, the pace of recovery and repopulation in the City of New Orleans continues to be stymied by a lack of housing. Learn about the Foundation’s response to those challenges.
Progress Report
August 2009 CRF: Learning in Two Directions
This evaluation affirms that philanthropy can impact the housing development system in New Orleans. As the City’s largest private, flexible, dedicated funding stream for community development, the Fund has established itself as more than a funder – in just two years, we have emerged as a key player in New Orleans community development.
Theory of Change
Crafted by the Community Revitalization program staff with input from the grantees, the funding partners and the evaluators, this document articulates a vision and a theory of change that drives our grantmaking for impact in housing development in New Orleans. Read Theory of Change
Evaluation
Executive Summary from the Evaluation of the Community Revitalization Fund
This is an independent assessment of the Community Revitalization Fund from the consulting group Community Development Strategies (CDS). The evaluation is based on discussion and interviews with funders, grantees and persons active in housing and community development, and community activists.
Quarterly Updates
Quarterly Update September 2010 (PDF)
It is September. Kids are back in school, the Saints won their opening season game against the Minnesota
Vikings, the oil leak is plugged and Louisiana waters are once again open for shrimping.
Quarterly Update June 2010 (PDF)
The environmental catastrophe of the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill has compounded the challenges facing the region in the midst of a fragile recovery from the man-made disaster of the levee failures less than five years past.
Quarterly Update, March 2010 (PDF)
Mayor-elect Landrieu will assume what The Economist termed, “the job almost no one wants” to oversee continued recovery from Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee failures and to pursue the renaissance of the City that care once forgot.
Quarterly Update, February 2010 (PDF)
For the first time in history, the Saints are on their way to the Super Bowl. The excitement is palpable and a fierce optimism permeates the air, at the same time that the City of New Orleans has set its sights on a different future with the mayoral primary the day before the big game.
Quarterly Update, October 2009 (PDF)
Though former New Orleans Recovery “Czar” Ed Blakely’s vision of “cranes in the sky” never came to fruition, shovels broke much ground during the third quarter of 2009, as many projects funded by the Community Revitalization Fund finally began construction.
Quarterly Update, July 2009 (PDF)
An in-depth review of the current landscape in New Orleans and how the Community Revitalization Fund engages with its partners – state and local government agencies, developers, and other nonprofit organizations to support the construction of affordable housing within a rapidly-changing system.
Quarterly Update, April 2009 (PDF)
Affordable housing is still a pressing need almost four years after the hurricanes of 2005. This report outlines how the Community Revitalization Fund is building the capacity of local nonprofit developers to continue the rebuilding of decimated homes in the wake of a tough economic climate.
