Katrina Report: Groups Needed Better Coordination
August 24, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
While small nonprofit groups and churches provided desperately needed aid after Hurricane Katrina, they failed to coordinate with government agencies and larger charities and often took on more than they could handle, says a new study by the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, in Baton Rouge, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York at Albany.
A year after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, a host of scholars and charity experts are examining nonprofit relief efforts, reports the Associated Press.
Read The Chronicle’s special report on the recovery and rebuilding along the Gulf Coast.
