New Orleans Neighborhoods Partnership Network

Rebuilding Together New Orleans is currently accepting homeowner applications. If your house needs rebuilding or repairing, please consider applying to RTNO’s program for low-income elderly and/or disabled homeowners. If accepted into the program, we will help to repair your home using both volunteer and professional labor at little cost to you, the homeowner.

Having rebuilt more than 1,000 homes since 1988, RTNO is the largest rehab nonprofit in the city of New Orleans and a trusted member of the community.

To request an application, please contact Sara Moore at 504.636.3061 or

Rebuilding Together is trying to promote local volunteerism in the community. New Orleanians working to rebuild their city! One weekend a month is set aside for volunteer groups from the Greater New Orleans Area. The workdays are Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sign up for one day or the whole weekend! There is no fee for local groups.

The following weekends are set aside for local volunteer builds:

To volunteer, please contact Caitlin Metzguer at or 504.636.3076

Looking for cheap building materials to use in the reconstruction of your home? Want to preserve the historic architecture and identity of New Orleans while saving the planet at the same time?

For all of your rebuilding needs, stop by the Preservation Resource Center Salvage Store on 2801 Marais St. (the orange building between the train tracks and St. Ferdinand). Look through our extensive supply of used architectural elements such as roofing tiles, doors, windows, cabinets, bricks and columns. Lower your rebuilding costs and decrease the amount of construction waste that goes into the landfill! There is something for everyone!

Store Hours: 9-4 Tuesday through Saturday.

Address: 2801 Marais St. (right next to the Green Project)

For more information please contact Melanie Linn at

For the past twenty years, Rebuilding Together New Orleans (formerly “ Christmas in October”) has worked with local community partners to provide home renovations for low-income elderly and disabled homeowners.

Weekend 1: Friday, October 3, Saturday, October 4
Weekend 2: Friday, October 10, Saturday October 11

Contact Sean Vissar, (504) 636-3076,