Because of our Government's failure to properly aid, protect, and rebuild the city of New Orleans, it has been left up to students and Volunteers from across the nation to fill the gap and complete the necessary work. Now, we are following the leadership of the residents and organizing around the mandates that the locally led movement have put forth. We are working in solidarity with those most affected towards getting the City back on its feet and bringing everyone home.

In order to effectively help the people of New Orleans we need money. All donations made to our organization are Tax Deductible and will go directly towards helping the rebuilding process and towards helping our networking and outreach across NYC. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can donate online through Network For Good by clicking HERE. The Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) serves as our fiscal sponsor. Please make sure to put NY2NO in the "Designation" field. Or make checks and money orders payable to: IFCO/New York 2 New Orleans - or - IFCO / NY2NO and mail to: IFCO (IFCO / Pastors for Peace serves as our fiscal sponsor.) If you would like to donate something besides money, that would be great as well. |
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New Orleans Survivors Council and People's Organizing Committee
The New Orleans Survivor Council is an organization run and lead by the people of
The Survivor Council and P.O.C. were started by the world renowned Civil Rights leader Curtis Muhammad and a number of other residents who share the belief that bottom up organizing is the only true way to solve this problem and rebuild the city. The organization officially began in April of 2006 and since then they have accepted numerous volunteers to help them Gut homes, set up rallies, and organize the people of the community so that they can be put into a position where they can get back on their feet and lead themselves.
To learn more about or to contact the People’s Organizing Committee check out their website at: www.peoplesorganizing.org, E-Mail them atneworleanssurvivorcouncil@gmail.com or call them at 504 655 2715 or 504 655 3014
Emergency Communities
Emergency Communities is a volunteer based organization that has been set up to help rehabilitate disaster-stricken areas through the creation of temporary community centers based on service, compassion, and creativity. They have set up a number of cites around the city of
Emergency Communities was started in December of 2006 by a number of volunteers from across the county. Over the past year and a half they have served over 400,000 meals and 35,000 resident and they encourage volunteers from all over the nation to help join their efforts towards rebuilding
To learn more about or contact Emergency Communities Check out their website at: http://www.emergencycommunities.org/ or call them at: (917) 442-8900
In case these organizations don't appeal to you, here is a list of a few other organizations that are doing volontere work in New Orleans that you can look into:
St. Bernard Project: www.stbernardproject.org
ACORN : www.acorn.org
Habitat for Humanities: http://www.habitat-nola.org/
Common Grounds: http://www.commongroundrelief.org/
Catholic Charities: http://www.catholiccharities-md.org/