Hurricane Katrina Relief and Rebuilding Efforts
By and For Community Groups and Progressive Organizations

Gulf Coast Community Foundation
The Gulf Coast Community Foundation in Biloxi, MS will have a
mailing address to receive contributions. In the meantime, they are using the facilities of www.networkforgood.org
http://www.networkforgood.org/> . Just type in Gulf Coast Community Foundation and Mississippi.

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) -
Hurricane Recovery and Rebuilding Fund
http://www.acorn.org/
ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. With their national headquarters in New Orleans destroyed, they are in need of funds to:
Establish a temporary headquarter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Service the housing and credit needs of their communities
Organize to see that low-income neighborhoods and families get the
help they need.
Louisiana ACORN is a statewide community organizing group
with local members throughout LA. It is affiliated with the national ACORN org.
Anyone who wishes to make a contribution, send in your
donation to:
ACORN Hurricane Recovery & Rebuilding Fund
739 8th Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
You can also make an online contribution at www.acorn.org.
file:///\\Mrbfserv\General\Najar\www.acorn.org.>

Baton Rouge Area Foundation & The Greater New Orleans Foundation
http://www.braf.org/
402 N. Fourth Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
(225) 387-6126
Since 1964, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation has helped local philanthropists create a lasting legacy of community development.

The Greater New Orleans Foundation is a community foundation serving
Southeast Louisiana, connecting donors to the nonprofits that they care about and partnering with community leadership in the region.

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation and The Greater New Orleans Foundation have teamed up to establish two funds designated to benefit those impacted by Hurricane Katrina:
The Hurricane Katrina Displaced Residents Fund will benefit those individuals evacuated to Baton Rouge from the hurricane impacted areas in Greater New Orleans, who are now unable to return for
what may be an extended period. The Hurricane Katrina New Orleans Recovery Fund will focus on the rebuilding of infrastructure to provide basic human services to residents of these devastated areas.

Ms. Foundation for Women - Katrina Women's Response Fund
http://www.ms.foundation.org/
120 Wall Street, 33rd Floor
New York, NY 10005
(212) 742-2300
The Katrina Women's Response Fund provides strategic support to meet the immediate needs of women of color and low-income women in the Gulf Coast region and ensure that their leadership and priorities are central in both short- and long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts. By making grants to organizations throughout the region, the Katrina Women's Response Fund invests in the crucial infrastructure that promotes the health, safety and economic well-being of women, their families and communities. The Fund will focus its support on activist organizations working from a gender, race and class perspective to:
Raise the voices of people of color and women
Influence the uses and distribution of funds that come into the
region Impact policy and practices as they develop
Keep women and children safe

Operation USA - Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund
http://www.opusa.org/
8320 Melrose Avenue, Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90069
(323) 658-8876
Since its inception in 1979, Operation USA has focused increasingly on development programs that assist communities worldwide in the areas of health care, economic development, micro-enterprise and education. Operation USA is completely privately-funded, meaning they neither solicit nor accept direct United States government funding of their relief and development programs, thus maintaining
its total independence from the unfortunate ups and downs of US government policy.
Operation USA is assessing damage to community-based non-profit health care clinics in both urban and rural areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and will be providing them with replacement
equipment, furnishings and medical supplies. The affect on the health system of the area has been widely publicized-the fact that the three states involved are America's poorest has not. In normal
times, there are hundreds of thousands of residents of these states with little or no access to health care. These clinics receive very little funding from any level of government and it is they who bear much of the burden of directly caring for their neighbors.

PICO National Network
(Donations should go to one of the local affiliates - see below for
partial list)
PICO is a national network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities. Since 1972, PICO has successfully worked to increase access to health care, improve public schools, make neighborhoods safer, build affordable housing, redevelop communities and revitalize democracy.

Non-partisan and multi-cultural, PICO unites people across religion, region, race and class. With more than 1,000 member institutions representing one million families in 150 cities and 17 states, PICO is one of the largest community-based efforts in the United States.
Below is a list of several PICO-affiliated congregations that are providing shelter, food and clothing to those who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina and will need help providing these resources:

Beech Grove Baptist Church - Providing clothing and approximately
100+ bag lunches and 100+ dinners each day for hurricane victims.
c/o Rev. Gregory White
2376 Thomas Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70807
(225) 775-8859

Check should designate HURRICANE KATRINA in the memo.

Ecumenical Ministries, Inc. - Offering a home repair program, food
and shelter for hurricane victims.
c/o Mr. Dan Hanson
564 Fairhope Avenue
Fairhope, AL 36532
(251) 928-3430

Check should designate HURRICANE KATRINA in the memo.

Greater New Galilee Baptist Church - Providing food and clothing
for 200+ hurricane victims.
c/o Rev. Mark Litt
9185 Wilbur Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70807
(225) 774-0268
Contact: Mrs. Wilmer

Check should designate HURRICANE KATRINA in the memo.

St. Anthony Catholic Church - Providing food, shelter and clothing
for 300+ hurricane victims.
c/o Father Minh Hai Nguynn
2580 Tecumesh Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70805
(225) 357-4800

Check should designate HURRICANE KATRINA in the memo.

Southern Mutual Help Association, Inc. - Rural Recovery Fund
http://www.southernmutualhelp.org/
c/o Lorna Bourg, Executive Director
3602 Old Jeanerette Road
New Iberia, LA 70563
(337) 367-3277

The Southern Mutual Help Association, Inc. (SMHA) helps people develop strong, healthy and prosperous rural communities in Louisiana, with a focus on agricultural and pervasively poor
communities, women and people of color. They help build rural communities through people's growth in their own empowerment and the just management of resources. Louisiana is in the midst of a catastrophe. Not only is New Orleans devastated but so are so many of the surrounding rural communities. Fishers and family farmers already under the stress of international trade agreements, have now lost homes and the very means of creating a livelihood to recover. Many rural small businesses are destroyed, crops in many areas are gone and the fisheries are destroyed in
large areas of Louisiana's coast. SMHA knows from their lengthy recovery from Hurricane Andrew in August 1992 that rural areas are last and receive the least. Relief and rebuilding efforts will focus on urban areas such as New Orleans, on oil and gas installations, on search and rescue and the
basics of life like water, food, shelter and medical treatment.
SMHA needs funds to make grants and specially structured loans to
help rural families recover.

Tides Foundation - Tides Rapid Response Fund
http://www.tidesfoundation.org/rapid_response_initiative.cfm
Tides Foundation
The Presidio
P.O. Box 29903
San Francisco, CA 94129
(415) 561-6400
The Tides Rapid Response Fund quickly and efficiently channels emergency relief in the aftermath of natural and civil disasters. The Fund pools donors' resources to increase the impact of their giving, and researches and distributes funds to effective grassroots and advocacy organizations that have worked for long-term economic, social and structural change in the Gulf States for years. Once on
their feet, these groups will be in the best position to aid displaced people, particularly undocumented immigrants and others often left outside of government and mainstream relief programs.

The Twenty-First Century Foundation - Hurricane Katrina Recovery
Fund http://www.21cf.org/
271 West 125th Street, Suite 303
New York, NY 10027

The Twenty-First Century Foundation is a national public foundation created to promote strategic philanthropy by the African American/Black community. For more than 35 years, the Foundation has been a community builder, fostering cooperation and connection between Black donors, grantees and leaders. The mission of the Hurricane Katrina Recovery Fund of the Twenty-First Century Foundation is to provide targeted support to rebuild the lives of displaced low-income people impacted by
Hurricane Katrina. The Fund will provide strategic grants for relief, recovery and advocacy efforts that promote long-term equitable solutions. By partnering with organizations in the region,
the Foundation will ensure that resources get to the people who need them the most and achieve the justice goals at the heart of this initiative.

People’s Hurricane Fund
c/o Vanguard Foundation (a Funding Exchange member fund)
383 Rhode Island Street, Suite 302
San Francisco, CA 94103
Via credit card at www.truedemocracy.org

This fund will be directed and administered by New Orleans evacuees and was initiated by the Community Labor United (CLU) in New Orleans, a coalition of progressive organizations throughout the city.

Federation of Southern Land Cooperatives; www.federationsoutherncoop.com

St. Mary Community Action Association, St. Mary CAA Disaster Relief Fund,
Attn: Almetra Franklin
1407 Barrow Street
Franklin, LA. 70538

Plenty International, www.plenty.org/donate.html,

The Justice Center, New Orleans, Not-For-Profit, Indigent Defenders, www.thejusticecenter.org/ lcac/donations.html

Shrine of the Black Madonna, www.blessingsoffaith.org/events.htm

Reprieve, www.reprieve.org/donate.htm

National Youth Advocacy Coalition/ Center for Lesbian Rights, www.nyacyouth.org/

Acadiana Public School Endowment, www.APSE.us.

National Network of Abortion Funds, www.nnaf.org

Operation, USA, www.opusa.org

Camp Casey, crawfordpeace.nfshost.com/node/1865

Rhizome Collective in Austin, rhizomecollective.org/directions.html

Louisiana Domestic Violence Victim's Hurricane Relief Fund, at (225)752-1296.

Federation of Southern Cooperatives, www.federation.coop

Farm Aid Disaster Fund, www.farmaid.org/

Louisiana Interchurch Conference.

Louisiana Environmental Network, Www.leanweb.org

FFLIC (Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children), familiescantwait@yahoo.com,

Louisiana Welfare Rights Organization, www.geocities.com/itsdadawg

BlackAmerica Web.com (Fund set up by Tom Joyner) www.blackamericaweb.com/relief"

NAACP, naacp.org/disaster/contribute.php"

Team Rescue One, www.teamrescueone.com

NOAH: a new houston/nola musicians support project, www.noahleans.org"

AIDS Alliance, https://secure.ga3.org/03/
KatrinaEmergencyFund

Food Not Bombs, http://www.foodnotbombs.net.

Neworleansnetwork.org / The New Orleans Fund, www.neworleansnetwork.org