Neighborhood Groups
Neighborhood Groups That Are Project Specific (parks,
Backyard Gardeners Network
The mission of the Backyard Gardener’s Network is to sustain and strengthen the Lower Ninth Ward community and revitalize its neighborhood through urban agriculture.
Gert Town Enterprise Economic Redevelopment
This organization was started to acquire funds from the Gert Town funds from the Thompson-Haywood chemical plant. One big success is that all of Gert Town people is bound by one organization. This organization received funds from the Gert Town Donor Advisor group in conjunction with the Greater New Orleans…
Make It Right Foundation
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The slow reaction to the initial emergency and to the ongoing crisis exposed troubling realities about the response capabilities of the American government when the citizens of our most culturally diverse city were in desperate need of help. When Brad Pitt visited the Lower 9th…
St. Charles Avenue Association
History: The Saint Charles Avenue Association was organized in 1972 to encourage the preservation of the historic and residential character of St.Charles Avenue. In 1998 several of our members became concerned about the severity of the buckmoth caterpillar infestation of the oak trees along the Avenue. The City indicated that…
