“FAQ” Posts

KC on Season Finale of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition! »

Monday, May 19th, 2008

The 2 hour season finale aired this Sunday!
Thank you so much to everyone who participated…their time, energy, and
products for this doozie of an episode. It was the most massive effort
ever and it was just amazing the group that came together to pull it all off.
The house and the church both turned out so, so […]

Sign Up For Summer Projects! »

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Hey everyone, we now have our summer projects lined up and our Sign Up page activated. Please visit our FAQS page for travel and housing information among other things. Any further questions can be directed to info@katrinacorps.org
Summer session runs from June 3rd until September 1st.
Our projects:

Helping the New Orleans Recovery School District open 25 more […]

Housing Information »

Monday, February 26th, 2007

St. Vincent’s Guest House,
1507 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130,
diannepeterschreiber@earthlink.net,
office-504.523.0042,
fax-504.525.4573
Description
Historical, beautiful, St. Vincent’s is in the heart of New Orleans. Located in the Garden District, just a 5 minute bus ride from the French Quarter and three blocks from the Convention Center, the Colonial Victorian building was built in 1861 as an orphanage founded […]

Katrina Corps: A Strike Force of Good Neighbors »

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

For those of you who are into genealogy, the Katrina Corps was conceived early in December of 2006 and born on December 29, 2006 after three days of hard labor in Madison, Wisconsin. Not a very long gestation period.

Katrina Corps’s infancy and childhood have been a whirlwind of e-mails, conference calls, […]

“Who are those guys, anyway?” (Sundance Kid to Butch Cassidy) »

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Following are some short Bios of the people who started the Katrina Corps:

Pam Murtaugh, Director, leads Pam Murtaugh & Co – management catalysts to Fortune 100 companies, specializing in a re-orientation from “consumer” strategies to human strategies. Her email is pam@pammurtaugh.com. She is moved to help the world see what happens when […]

Introducing Katrina Corps »

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Imagine… 5000 homes gutted and ready to rebuild in 5 weeks
Imagine… A generation of youth demonstrating that “we the people” can rebuild the Katrina Frontier, because “IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING!”
The Situation
At the current rate of volunteers, it will take at least six years to gut the wait-listed homes in New Orleans. Gutting is the first […]

Want to Make History? Be Part of the Katrina Corps »

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Every generation gets the chance to be part of something magnificent. Some people sign up. Others sign off. The Katrina Corps hopes you’ll choose to spend one week of your Spring Break ‘07 working your butt off helping the people of New Orleans. And having the time of your life.
WHAT IT IS. […]