Fund Raising for Hurricane Katrina: a Sampling of Charity Efforts
American Friends Service Committee
The $3.3-billion collected for Katrina victims will not be enough to meet all their needs, charities sayIn the year since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and surrounding areas of the Gulf Coast, ALSO SEE:List: Fund Raising for Hurricane Katrina: a Sampling of Charity EffortsSpecial Report:…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Finding Shelter for Relief Workers Is Not Easy
Alkie Edwards, a community-development specialist at Oxfam America, has been living in Biloxi, Miss., since April, helping hurricane victims rebuild. He shares with up to three other relief workers a tiny room equipped with twin-size bunk ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm…
By Sue Hoye
Contributor
Grant Makers Take Array of Approaches to Gulf Grant Making
Grant makers are taking a variety of approaches to helping the Gulf Coast region recover from Hurricane Katrina. Some philanthropies are giving local community foundations and national charities money that they ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm DestroyedArticle: Beyond Relief…
By nicole lewis
Contributor
Foundations are answering the call for long-term post-Katrina support, but some leaders say more is neededDays after Hurricane Katrina fiercely uprooted life along the Gulf Coast, Michael S. Liebaert, ALSO SEE: Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm Destroyed Table: After Katrina: Big…
By nicole lewis
Contributor
School Libraries Struggle to Rebuild With Few Donations
Cindy O’Brien, the librarian at the South Plaquemines High and Elementary Schools, in Port Sulphur, La., ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm Destroyed spent three weeks in a warehouse several months ago sorting through thousands of books donated by well-meaning individuals. Hoping…
By Sandy Asirvatham
Contributor
Programs Respond to Needs of Katrina Children
The public schools in Houston, and the children whose families moved from New Orleans to Houston because ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm DestroyedArticle: Holding On in Houston of Hurricane Katrina, are both struggling through an adjustment period. On average, the displaced…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Charities continue to help displaced Katrina victims secure homes and jobs as the city struggles to adjust From makeshift office space in Houston’s East End, 22 caseworkers — all of whom fled to this ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm DestroyedArticle: Programs Respond to Needs…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Charity Coalition Helps Shut Down Katrina Landfill
Uncovered dump trucks full of twisted metal, crumbling drywall, and other Hurricane Katrina ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm Destroyed debris no longer rumble through Village de l’Est, in New Orleans, raising dust and shedding trash on the way to a 100-acre landfill off Chef…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Demand Is High for Post-Katrina Counseling Services
While shelter is the major concern for charities working along the Gulf Coast to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm DestroyedArticle: From Recovery to Rebuilding the damage and dislocation wrought by the storm has also led to an increase in the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Faith Draws Many Volunteers to Devastated Gulf Region
After a long, sweltering day hanging sheetrock, installing flooring, and removing fallen ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm Destroyed trees for residents whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina, some 40 people — ranging in age from their teenage years to their 50s and 60s —…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast face hurdles as they seek to reconstruct the area and their organizations Ever since Hurricane Katrina inundated East Biloxi nearly a year ago, Bill Stallworth has been ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm DestroyedArticle: Demand Is High…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
American Red Cross and other charities put together improved plans for dealing with disaster reliefPaige Roberts, who helped to evacuate and shelter people after Hurricane Katrina battered coastal ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm Destroyed Mississippi, has spent the past year…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Huge challenges face charities working along the Gulf CoastAs charities wrap up the work ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm Destroyed on what has been one of the longest and most-expensive disaster-relief efforts undertaken by nonprofit organizations, they are about to start an…
Albany County Opportunity (Albany, N.Y.): Appointed David D. Gilliom, director of finance at the Child Program and Family Resource Center (Schenectady, N.Y.), to be chief fiscal officer. This organization helps low-income families achieve economic self-sufficiency. All Kinds of Minds (Chapel Hill,…