Dear Katrina Corps,
It’s been a while since I was down in N.O. with you, gutting houses over Spring Break. In the months since that memorable week, life at school and abroad as been as busy as can be. I never forgot, however, the sights that I saw and the stories that I heard while in New Orleans.
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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 courting many individuals and organizations to support our mission. With 501 (c) (3) status in hand, many more opportunities are now available to us and more importantly to the people of New Orleans.
Thank you all for supporting and believing in the mission of Katrina Corps!
This is a great letter of appreciation that Katrina Corps received from the Gulf Coast Relief Society. Our many thanks to them for volunteering with us during Spring Break 2007.
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 Katrina Corps from two different perspectives. It’s neat to be able to recollect my experience as a volunteer, and then apply that to my job. The time down here seems to fly by, although New Orleans still retains its laid back, southern style of living.
The coolest thing for me has been, by far, meeting new volunteers each week. I’m constantly surprised by the attitudes of our volunteers. It is invigorating to be around people who are so cause-oriented. Despite being from different areas all over the country, and even world, we are all united by the single cause of bringing New Orleans back to where it was pre-Katrina. The interaction between volunteers is great as well. I like to watch volunteers who seemingly have nothing in common, sit around and talk for hours. It’s extremely gratifying to be down here, and I think I can speak for the entire crew down here, when I say that the Volunteers are really why we wake up early each morning.
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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 did manage to get out and show the volunteers some of NOLA /Jazz / local food / good and bad neighborhoods.
It was a good week here and hope you all had one too.
Hope you can get some time to come down to NOLA and help out this summer.
“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 5 jpeg files, your artist statement and bio, or a link to your
website to cremerglass@yahoo.com by JUNE 29th, 2007.
OK, so I just moved away from Tornado Alley and my best friend tells me about a sudden surge of tornadoes. We were roomies in Hays, although she still lives there. Apparently a tornado passed the small town but luckily they weren’t hit. After this I thought about Hurricane Katrina and I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps, nature is attempting to balance us out, even possibly to further our own evolution(I know my thoughts are a little out there sometimes). Although, global warming seems to bring out a lot of spiritual speech about people being punished. I, personally, have a difficult time believing that. Nature is not an ominous terrorist, and the problem that we are having seems to be rooted elsewhere, something much closer to home.
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This is an informative 3 part series by National Public Radio about the state of public education in New Orleans and it’s relationship to the greater post-Katrina recovery effort.
» Overview: Bringing Back New Orleans Schools
» Positive Outlook Aids New Orleans School Recovery
» Teachers Wanted as New Orleans Students Return
» For One New Orleans School, an Uncertain Future
Note: Links to all parts of the series as well as related stories exist on each of the pages linked to here.
Louisana Department of Education new release:
» PASTOREK NAMES PAUL VALLAS SUPERINTENDENT OF RSD
A Times-Picayune article discussing the new superintendent:
»New Orleans lands “top tier” school superintendent
New York Times article discussing the new superintendent: