Katrina Corps

After waiting many months, we (under the umbrella of our parent organization Pangaea Quest) have finally received tax exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service (THANK YOU!)
We are now officially recognized as a public charity and all donations to Katrina Corps are tax-deductible - including program fees! This is very important as we have been […]

Hello All-
I hope that this blog finds you all well and happy. We’re currently in week 4 of our summer session, and it’s been eye opening. My transition from a volunteer in March, to now being Volunteer Coordinator has been extremely cool. It’s a lot of fun to be able to see […]

Hi to all,
Very productive week here worked on a community center in LaPlace, LA dry-walling and removing floor tile. I did electrical work for two days, gutted a house here in NOLA, and started painting a RSD school with America Corps. This is just the start of our work partnering with the Recovery School District.
We […]

“Third Annual Art in the Garden” show will be taking
place July 20-21st 2007, in Monona, WI.
We are seeking 3-D artists who would like to sell their work and
help with the recovery efforts in New Orleans. 10% of
all sales will go to Katrina Corps (www.katrinacorps.org).
If accepted, we require a $40 fee for show costs. Please
send […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

We took these images of the lower 9th Ward this past Sunday. The 9th Ward is essentially the ground zero of Hurricane Katrina or rather the Levee Failure Magnifico!

Some houses are now gutted.

Some are not and look the same as they did the day the waters receded.

Some have been bulldozed and some are just a […]

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 […]