LOYOLA UNIVERSITY – NEW ORLEANS
(POST-KATRINA) COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: OPERATION HELPING HANDS
Contact: Denise Chetta, 1000 Howard Ave, Suite 1000, New Orleans, LA 70113
Phone: 504-371-7747 Ext. 215
Email: dchetta@archdiocese-no.org
Project description: Operation Helping Hands mobilizes teams of volunteers to help the elderly, the disabled or those without financial means to reoccupy their homes. Volunteers will be involved in gutting flooded houses, clearing debris, cleaning and salvaging items. Gallery
EMERGENCY COMMUNITIES IN ST. BERNARD PARISH
Phone: 206-245-9300
Project description: Working at a kitchen in heavily damaged Chalmette, a city in St. Bernard Parish, that is serving over 1000 meals/day. Serving breakfast, meal preparation, recycling.
AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE
Contact: Monica Pasos
Phone: 504-212-5194
Project description: Cleaning up the Riverview. The Riverview is managed by Audubon Nature Institute, but due to current staffing situations, keeping the area clean has become a difficult task. With your help, we can return the area back into a clean, safe place for people to visit, while protecting the Mississippi River Delta.
BAYOU SAUVAGE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Contact: Shelley Stiaes
Phone: 985-882-2009
Email: shelley_stiaes@fws.gov
www.fws.gov/bayousauvage
Project Description: Debris removal in Bayou /Sauvage, a national wildlife refuge located in New Orleans East.
PARKWAY PARTNERS
Contact: Joan Doyle
Phone: 504-620-2224
Email: www.hps.gov/jazz/armstrong%20park.htm
Project Description: Clean-up in Armstrong Park. Armstrong Park was created to honor the great Louis Armstrong, and to preserve. Congo Square, a historic area where African Americans could gather in the time of slavery to play music and dance preserving cultural traditions.
MALTA PARK (assisted living facility for people, age 62 and over)
1101 Aline Street, New Orleans
Contact: Tammi Switzer
Phone: 504-259-8024
Email: switzermichael@msn.com
Project Description: Volunteers will help Malta Park restore its garden and perform minor repairs of the facility to create a more enjoyable living environment for its residents.
PROJECT LAZARUS
2824 Dauphine Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
Contact: Susan Banks
Phone: 504-949-3609
Project description: preparation of houses for re-opening following Hurricane Katrina. Working in the gardens, painting, cleaning.
KATRINA KREWE ( www.cleanno.org)
Contact: Becky Zaheri
Phone 504-329-7908
Email: beckamz@cox.net
Project Description: This group has formed since the storm to bring together volunteers to beautify major streets in New Orleans, and to support efforts to rebuild New Orleans.
LIBERTY CITY CDC
2100 Martin Luther King Blvd, (located at the Israelite Baptist Church center)
Contact: Jennifer Page
Phone: 504-931-3266
Email: jpage@libertycitycdc.com
Project description: Provide after school tutoring and some mentoring to inner city kids in structured, fun, safe community setting. Staffed by certified teachers using proven curriculum plus homework help. Post Katrina restoration of community, everything from help with clean-out/restoration of homes to connection of families to services.
After school tutorial: M,T,Th (3:15pm-5:30pm), Saturdays (11am-1:30pm)
HISPANIC APOSTOLATE
Director: Martin Gutierrez
Phone: 504-464-6187
Email: mgutierrezapp@aol.com
Services: Offers the Hispanic community, particularly newcomers , housing location assistance, immigration counseling, family counseling, translation services. Also referrals for medical care, food, clothing and other emergency assistance. Adult Basic Education services (GED, English as a second language, citizenship classes) are now being offered on Loyola’s campus in Mercy Hall.
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST COMMUNITY CENTER (CATHOLIC CHARITIES)
1920 Clio Street, New Orleans, La 70113
Director Janet Rousso
Phone: 504-529-2557
Fax: 581-2028
Services: Neighborhood-based services include counseling and referral, food, pre-school education, clothing, and emergency assistance.
HOPE HAVEN (CATHOLIC CHARITIES)
Phone : 347-5581
Fax 340-2075
1101 Barataria Blvd, Marrero, LA
Description: Hope Haven Center, which includes Hope Haven/Madonna and St. Elizabeth is a residential treatment facility providing interdisciplinary services to children ages 5-19 who have moderate to serious behavioral, educational, emotional and/or family problems.
ARC OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS
5700 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, La 70115
Contact: Jane Wilson
Phone: 897-0134
Fax: 895-6496
Email: jwilson9189@juno.com
Description: Provides care for persons with disabilities on a planned or emergency basis.
Also provides early intervention plan for children from ages of birth to 3 years old who have
developmental delays. Needs: Yard maintenance, raking, hauling, weeding, planting, preparing garden beds and cutting small trees, painting, work with children and adults. Volunteers: up to 25 people.
UPTOWN SHEPHERD CENTER
921 S. Carrollton Ave, New Orleans, La 70118
Director: Silvia Warren
Phone: 314-0300
Email: jwarren115@aol.com
Description: The senior center has various activities for its members including congregate meals, leisure activities, transportation assistance and information services.
Hours: 8:30a m – 2:00pm Monday through Friday
OZANAM INN HOMELESS MEN’S SHELTER
843 Camp Street, New Orleans, La 70130
Contact: Clarence Adams
Phone: 504-523-1184
Fax 523-1187
Description: Provides 96 emergency shelter beds for men; vouchers for women/children for other shelters; mail service; 3 meals/day (6am, 2pm, 6pm); emergency clothing; and counseling, job program, and referral for medical assistance. All services are free.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER NEW ORLEANS
7100 St. Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112
Contact: Sarah Schindhelm
Phone: 861-2077
Fax: 866-6004
Email: volunteer@habitat-nola.org
Description: Builds and sells homes for families who have low to moderate incomes.
CAFÉ RECONCILE
1631 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd
Director: Craig Cuccia
Phone 568-1157
Opportunities: Recruitment of students for apprenticeship, construction, cleanup, organizing supplies, data entry, locating homes for donations.
THE SALVATION ARMY
100 Jefferson Drive
Jefferson, LA 70121
Contact: Judith Hale
Phone: 513-675-9263
Description: Salvation Army social service programs meet the basic needs of daily life for those without the resources to do so themselves. Often, the programs provide food, shelter, clothing, financial assistance to pay utilities, and other necessities based on the need.
1415 Franklin Street
New Orleans, LA
Phone: 504-218-6613
www.comongroundrelief.org
Services: food distribution, free medical clinic, legal and eviction defense, media center, environmental justice, women’s center, cooperatives, cleaning houses. Volunteers: Large groups are welcomed.
KATRINA RELIEF NOLA HURRICANE FUND
Contact: Kevin Lander
Phone: 303-819-1678
www.NOLAhurricanefund.org
Description: A non-profit, student led initiative focused on the long-term rebuilding of New Orleans.
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE NEW ORLEANS
4128 Baudin Street
New Orleans, LA 70119
Contact: Angela Archer
Phone: 504-484-7744 or 850-766-1496
E-mail: aarcher@bhgh.org
www.bhghnola.org
Needs: Renovation of homes, fundraisers, donations, plan activities for kids.
Volunteers: 20-30.
HOPE HOUSE
916 St. Andrew Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: 504-525-2561
Contact: Don Everard
Hous3868@bellsouth.net
Services: Emergency assistance, Common Grounds Resource Center and Coffeehouse,
Adult Learning Center, Family Transitional Housing, After-school Youth Program, Prison Ministry, Education for Justice.
KINGSLEY HOUSE
Contact: Diana Farthing
Phone: 504-523-6221 Ext. 126
E-mail: dfarthing@kingsleyhouse.org
Description: Kingsley House assists families with life management counseling, creates safe after-school programming, and provides assisted care for elderly and impaired adults among other things.
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
1024 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
Contact: Diana Winingder
Phone: 504-943-0044 or 713-875-6069
Email: rebuild@acorn.org
Project Description: Home Clean-out Demonstration Program-with the goal of preserving and rebuilding thousands of homes in low-income neighborhoods. We are cleaning up trash, ripping out drywall, and putting tarps on roofs before the winter rains to prevent further deterioration, with the goal of cleaning 1000 homes at a cost of $2,500 a piece.
