Activism & Volunteerism

Alliance for Nonprofit Management

From the Alliance for Nonprofit Management website, a compilation of Hurricane Katrina relief organizations.(more)

Bay Area Radical Collective

Links to volunteer reports on post Katrina assistance. (more)

Communities Respond

The Communities Respond website presents a compilation of events, activities, and information that were organized by communities throughout the country to express their grief, empathy, and concern regarding Hurricane Katrina and its consequences. (more)

Common Ground Collective

Common Ground's mission is to provide short term relief for victims of hurricane disasters in the gulf coast region, and long term support in rebuilding the communities affected in the New Orleans area. Common Ground is a community-initiated volunteer organization offering assistance, mutual aid and support. The work gives hope to communities by working with them, providing for their immediate needs and emphasizing people working together to rebuild their lives in sustainable ways.(more)
Download Common Ground Brochure: (here)

HurricaneHousingSearch

HurricaneHousingSearch.com is a free, non-commercial, non-profit directory for Hurricane Katrina survivors in search of free temporary housing. (more)

KatrinaMayFirst.Org

Compilation of grassroots organizations engaged in Katrina relief.(more)

Neo-Underground Railroad Conductors

A Katrina “On the Ground” documentary produced for the Annual Student Black Leadership Conference in 2006 in Arlington, VA. Background on the documentary and information on efforts by students and community-based organizations to help and empower Katrina survivors in New Orleans. (more)

Operation Gulf Coast

A media coalition of labor unions, community- and faith-based organizations, and the Pacifica Radio network announced they will broadcast a Town Hall meeting to discuss the upcoming evictions of Katrina survivors from hotel rooms in the greater Houston area.(more)

Princeton University

Reports on student relief efforts and other initiatives from Feb 13th 2006 Princeton Weekly Bulletin.(more)

Rice University

Reports on the university’s efforts to help Katrina survivors and the economic recovery. (more)

WWLV-TV

Texas Schools Expect 31,000 Evacuees to Remain for 06-07 (August 4, 2006)(more)

News Reports on Activism

Black America Web.com

Katrina Victims, Grassroots Coalitions Gather to Strategize, Demonstrate
December 10, 2005
A national grassroots coalition and survivors of Hurricane Katrina are sponsoring a State of Emergency Conference and demonstration…to call attention to displaced black Americans and to demand immediate jobs, housing, clothing and food for families in turmoil. (more)

Black America Web.com

Many Black Students Put Off Spring Break Partying to Help Rebuild Gulf News Report
March 9, 2006
This year many students are choosing not to indulge in the week of fun and sun, but are instead looking to roll up their sleeves and work to repair the Gulf Coast region still reeling from Hurricane Katrina. (more)

The Boston Globe

Colleges helping colleges
October 9, 2005
Recently, Brown and Princeton universities announced a partnership with Dillard University that will, over the long term, help restore it to full operation and, we hope, expand what it can offer its students in the future.(more)

Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting

Activism Update: FEMA Reverses Media Access Policy
Will allow press access to Katrina survivors in trailer parks (more)

Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting

Activism Update: FEMA Responds on Press Access to Trailer Parks
An article on FEMA's response to complaints that they were restricting access to Katrina victims living in FEMA trailer parks. (more)

Gulf Coast Connection

Family Resources has become involved, especially in helping the families from the Gulf Coast create a support network for themselves. The network, called The Gulf Coast Connection, will sponsor regular meetings that make it easier for people to share experiences and provide practical and emotional support to one another.(more)

Project Katrina

Project Katrina’s goal is to help people displaced from the Gulf Coast region to resume their everyday lives by connecting them to the community-based services they need. The members of Project Katrina are dedicated to identifying evacuees residing in Pennsylvania and to providing them the information they need to rebuild their lives. (more)

Sacramento Observer

Black Colleges Support Katrina Victims News Report
October 17, 2005
Across the board, Hurricane Katrina impacted many of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in many ways.(more)

The Washington Informer

All Stripes and Shades March For Katrina Victims News Report
March 16, 2006
A protest march aimed at stable housing and voting rights for Hurricane Katrina evacuees grew from few to a few hundred in an hour as it threaded through Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon. (more)

UCLA

UCLA leads national effort to address New Orleans' mental health needs
To address the enormous mental health needs of New Orleans, UCLA psychology professor Vickie Mays is leading a national effort to provide mental health education and training – including to New Orleans' parents, families, the clergy and mental health providers – August 8–9, 2006.(more)

UCLA Magazine

July 2006
UCLA psychology professor provide assistance to youth traumatized by Katrina and the aftermath. (more)