Hurricane Ida Disaster Response: Nonprofit Vignettes

Nonprofit Vignettes Four organizations’ experiences with the Foundation in the wake of Hurricane Ida

“THE RIGHT PEOPLE TOGETHER IN THE RIGHT PLACE”

New Wine Christian Fellowship

St. John Parish, after Hurricane Ida

“They said, ‘Pastor, is there anything you can do to help us?’” he explains. “They had nowhere to go. And so that night—midnight—on August 29, I drove to our facilities. There were no lights. Water everywhere. I opened our facility so that rescue vehicles could bring people who were being rescued out of their attics, rescued out of their homes. They brought them here, and we gave them a place of shelter.”

The night Hurricane Ida hit, members of the St. John the Baptist Parish government called Pastor Neil Bernard. Their buildings were damaged, and they asked Pastor Bernard if his church, the New Wine Christian Fellowship, had any space.

The parish government knew to call Pastor Bernard in a crisis—he’s a community leader, and his congregation has focused on service since they launched in his living room in 1995. The church had a clear philosophy from the start.

“We needed to do more than just preach a sermon,” he says. “We needed to be a sermon. We needed to take the gospel out of the four walls of the church.”

For nearly thirty years, they have done exactly that with efforts like tutoring local students, hosting workforce training, and teaching computer skills to incarcerated people. The church has expanded well beyond Pastor Bernard’s living room to a multi-building facility just off of West Airline Highway.

Over the years, it became a local hub, complete with a food bank in a large, warehouse-like building.

Pastor Bernard chose to open up that warehouse space the night of the storm. When firemen and first responders rescued people from their homes, they headed to New Wine, and Pastor Bernard was there to receive them. The scope of the disaster quickly became clear.

“We probably had about seven thousand homes underwater. Our community was hit by the third strongest hurricane ever to hit Louisiana in the last 150 years. Just like Katrina devastated New Orleans, Hurricane Ida devastated St. John the Baptist Parish,” he explains.

New Wine quickly became central in addressing that devastation. But when Pastor Bernard talks about his role, he talks about partnerships. Pastor Bernard is a connector; he begins building a relationship with a person the moment he shakes their hand. He wants to know and understand people, and he’s quick to notice someone’s strengths.

So as more and more people arrived at New Wine’s warehouse, Pastor Bernard started making some calls of his own. He rallied people he knew and organizations he’d worked with to begin a response.

“We immediately kicked into action. We started working with some of our local, state, and national volunteer organizations, bringing in relief supplies, food, water, hot meals, cleaning supplies, and so forth.”

Alongside their partners and volunteers, New Wine started handing out supplies, water, food, and cleaning supplies six days a week in their parking lot. It was an enormous, efficient operation, but Pastor Bernard takes little credit for himself.

“We served over 26,000 hot meals in the first month and a half period after the storm…and when I say we did, I mean we had partners like Mercy Chefs, Eight Days of Hope—even Denny’s came and cooked breakfast. And so I was grateful. We had a lot of partners. And we came together.”

Pastor Bernard (right) carries supplies

Pastor Bernard also began coordinating teams of volunteers to head into the

community to get homes ready for repair. Again, he points out the work of others.

“We were able to tarp literally hundreds of roofs—and when I say we, I mean agencies that worked with us, volunteers that worked with us—we were able to cut trees, tarp roofs, and groups came from all over to help us begin to gut homes.”

It wasn’t easy. There was no power or clean water in New Wine’s facilities for three weeks. The parish had received some of the heaviest rainfall in the state. The scope of the damage was profound. Even with all that New Wine and their partners were doing, so much need remained. So Pastor Bernard kept building connections and rallying support.

“We brought government, we brought the United Way, we brought agencies, and the Greater New Orleans Foundation stepped to the plate, along with other organizations. We brought everybody together and said, ‘This is where we are in the community…and we’re going to need help.’”

Cars gather for supplies outside New Wine’s facilities

The Foundation had learned of New Wine’s work from one of their parishioners, who is also on our Board. Then we conducted our due diligence and offered New Wine $20,000, which was generously matched by Mrs. Gayle Benson. New Wine put it toward their food assistance efforts.

Meanwhile, Pastor Bernard kept leveraging the power of relationships. He arranged for volunteers to take down the information of people who needed new homes but were uninsured. He then began coordinating teams to help them rebuild.

“It’s amazing how we’ve had volunteers come from all over the United States give up their own time and to help the people in our community rebuild. To put new roofs on at their own expense. We’ve had agencies donate shingles, building supplies, sheetrock, insulation, and we’ve been able to coordinate those efforts and direct the volunteers to the people who need it the most,” he says.

One of those people was an 82-year-old man who had been living in a hotel since the storm but could no longer afford to stay there. He insisted to Pastor Bernard that he needed to go home.

“But his house was in such disarray. It wasn’t livable,” Pastor Bernard explains. “So one of our disaster response teams went and put a new roof on his house, put siding on his wall, put sheetrock in his home. And when that 82-year-old man walked into his home, he broke down and cried—just overwhelmed

because of the kindness and the goodness of strangers who helped him rebuild.”

Pastor Bernard says this isn’t an anomaly. “Those are the things that we now begin to see almost every day,” he explains.

Volunteers work on a house in St. John the Baptist Parish

He feels that sometimes, disasters present an opportunity to help those who may have needed support long before that moment.

“I say a lot that sometimes disasters pull the blanket off of the community, because a lot of people were hurting and struggling before the disaster, a lot of homes needed work before the disaster, and disaster just compounded it,” Pastor Bernard says.

He finds hope in the rebuilding. Pastor Bernard wants the houses of St. John Parish to be stronger than the ones that stood before. He sees this as an opportunity for workforce training, too, and youth empowerment. He’s already started a partnership with the school district to train young people to build and repair homes. They’ll be prepared for high-demand jobs through which they could earn a good living.

“I’m a dreamer,” says Pastor Bernard. “I really have a dream of seeing St. John Parish coming back better than it was before. As we work together, I really believe that we’re going to see a better community.”

“LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS” Bless Your Heart Nonprofit

Bless Your Heart Board (from left: Chris Brantley, Luke Newman, Hilary Krum Danos, Jeray Jarreau, Ross Jambon)

Six days after Hurricane Ida, Jeray Jambon Jarreau and her team at Bless Your Heart nonprofit set up a supply distribution site in a lumberyard. South Lafourche Parish, where Bless Your Heart is located, faced some of the storm’s worst impact. Winds moving at 150 miles per hour tore off roofs, topped boats, and felled power lines. The community was struggling.

The day of their supply distribution, explains Jarreau, “was the day that we stopped the bleeding.”

Jarreau says the days she spent preparing were the most exhausting of her life. She was recovering from the storm herself, living in a camper in her brother’s driveway with her family. The work was physical, emotional, and logistical. Jarreau and her team were soliciting donations, organizing supplies into buckets that would be easy for community members to take, and setting up a full distribution center in ninety degree heat and thick humidity.

Jarreau had a good team helping her. Bless Your Heart is a small, community-based operation that

started when Jarreau and her best friend started making snack-packs for essential workers at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jarreau, a full-time lawyer, now leads operations, and her best friend sits on the board. So does Jarreau’s brother, her neighbor, and another friend. Jarreau says that a sense of community motivates their work.

Growing up, Jarreau’s parents worked hard to make sure their children had what they needed. Her mother held three jobs at once. But times were sometimes tight.

“I remember times that community members stepped up to help my parents pay for things that we needed—they didn’t have to do that. But that’s just the kind of community that we were from. So we knew once we became professionals that we wanted to do that same thing.”

The day of that first distribution after Hurricane Ida, Bless Your Heart both rallied their community and met their needs.

“People came,” says Jarreau, “and they were desperate. We had no running water.

Power lines are still on the street. It was raining every single day.”

She says that as they handed out supplies, even those who needed help were helping others. The streets were muddy and treacherous. It was hard for some people, especially the elderly, to get to the distribution site itself. So community members who had a little gas in their cars started driving out to their neighbors who A home destroyed in Lafourche Parish couldn’t get to the lumberyard.

This type of support continued. The Larose Civic Center soon offered their space to Bless Your Heart for more distribution events. Jarreau was relieved—there was no AC, but they were able to have lights through a generator, and simply the shade of the space was cooling.

Yet again, her community showed up—not just to receive goods, but to help.

“Their houses were messed up, but they knew that they were, in whatever way they saw, more fortunate than other people,” she says. “They all came and they helped.”

Jarreau was particularly moved when she saw a local elementary school teacher come to help organize supplies. Jarreau knew the teacher’s street was completely flooded.

“Her house was filled with like four feet of mud…I kept telling her, ‘do you need to take stuff for your house? Do you need brooms? We had these big squeegee broom things to take the mud out, and she was not wanting to take it.”

Jarreau eventually realized that as this teacher was refusing supplies for herself, she was collecting something else.

“I see that she’s making a little stash on the side. I pass it by, and I realized that she’s taking toys for the kids in her class,” Jarreau says.

Bless Your Heart’s distribution site.

This teacher wanted to make sure that when school started back up again, students had what they needed. Bless Your Heart would soon join in that effort, too. When the school district announced that classes would start again in October, Jarreau and her board decided to shift their operations.

“As a board, we each separately thought, ‘what is the next step that you need to take to get life back to normal?’ We decided collectively that getting back to school was important. It creates a routine for families. It’s going to provide nutrition for kids… it’s going to provide childcare for families who need to be back at work.”

So Bless Your Heart started raising funds to buy school uniforms, and they spread the word that they’d be giving them out for free. Before long, the community had submitted the names of 2,000 children in need.

“We bought every piece of khaki along the Gulf Coast,” she says. “We went and bought every single pair of shoes that you can buy at Dick’s Sporting Goods outlet in Metairie.”

Bless Your Heart planned to distribute bags of clothes, food, and toiletries in early November, but they made a few deliveries early.

“We had students who were going to school in bathing suits because they did not have clothes. And so some of the principals called us and said ‘look, I know this kid is already on your list. And I know that

your distributions are not until November fourth. But can you bring that bag to school?’ And so we did.

I don’t tell anybody no,” Jarreau explains.

As Bless Your Heart took on these projects, they were supported by volunteers and donations.

“We received a lot of $5, $10, $12, $20 donations from normal people,” she says.

They also received bigger donations, including a $125,000 gift from the Greater New Orleans Foundation along with Mrs. Gayle Benson and the Dick J. Guidry Family Fund.

“GNOF was the first. We were at the Civic Center when they approached us, and it was the first time that someone really recognized the work that we were doing and the importance of it,” Jarreau says.

“In rural areas we always feel like we’re overlooked.”

They used some of the funding for supplies and uniforms, and some for a “Home Sweet Home” initiative through which they bought campers for displaced community members.

“The money we received from GNOF very much assisted that project. I can sleep better at night knowing that those families have a warm place to live and that their children are not sleeping outside,” Jarreau says.

Bless Your Heart is now looking to the next big needs in their community. They want to help families pay for their children’s extracurricular sports, and to help young people pay for certificates in trades, like electrical work and plumbing.

As they do all this, they want to remind their community that they are cared for, understood, and supported.

“We have just put a lot of time into loving our neighbors,” Jarreau says.

Volunteers gather outside the Larose Civic Center.

“DESPITE ALL THAT, WE ARE STILL ABLE TO GO BACK AND SERVE” The United Way of St. Charles Parish

John Dias distributes food after Hurricane Ida.

The United Way of St. Charles Parish (UWSC) has five staff members. During Hurricane Ida, three of them lost their homes. Their office was destroyed, too, but the team got to work within 72 hours of the storm. They set up in the River Parishes Community College building and got ready to connect their 55,000 community members with the supplies and support they needed.

The UWSC team was devoted. One member of the team didn’t leave when the day was done. The heat was stifling, the power was out, and the building was damaged, but supply donations were coming in from all across the country. She wanted to be there to receive them.

“She literally decided to just stay here on a blow-up mattress with her two children,” explains John Dias, Executive Director of UWSC. “So that when a truckload of water from Tennessee showed up at two in the morning, someone was here—because don’t forget, phones were out. Even though this young lady and her kids could have lived with family and relatives, she chose to stay for weeks to

make sure that people in the community got the food, got the water, got the ice they needed. So that we, as the United Way, lived up to our promise.”

It wasn’t easy. “We fought a battle,” Dias says.

Dias is straightforward, with the demeanor of a good coach. He’s unafraid to name the difficulties he and his team have faced. He’s also determined to come out the other side stronger.

A staff member and her family stayed at the UWSC headquarters to receive nighttime deliveries.

“We fought the lack of ability to communicate, and the heat, and our old office devastated, and the community college building having no power—and despite all that, we are still able to go back and serve our community,” he explains.

Despite its damage, the River Parishes Community College was a fitting spot for the United Way, who had helped bring the community college to St. Charles just before the storm hit.

Within those first 72 hours, Dias and his team had set up two websites to find volunteers and connect them with those who needed help. They offered to house volunteers in the community college building, and use it as a warehouse for donations as well. As supplies came in, the team began distributing them across more than a dozen sites throughout the community. Dias estimates that in the three weeks just after Ida, they distributed over 300,000 pounds of food, water, and supplies.

He is humble about these efforts. “That’s not just because of the United Way,” he says. “That’s because of the support we get from our community, from industry, from the Greater New Orleans Foundation, from things like that. So it makes

me feel like, despite a pretty ugly situation, we did okay.”

He says that, for UWSC, connections with the Greater New Orleans Foundation and industry partners are what keep their organization going. “Our success 100% rises and falls on that support, frankly,” he explains.

After Hurricane Ida, that support came quickly.

“The Greater New Orleans Foundation was I think the first group after the storm that proactively got a hold of me and said, ‘How can we help?’” says Dias. “And we’re talking real close after Ida, so that was really nice—to kind of be able to take a breath, and realize there’s help out there.”

With the help of $25,000 from the Foundation, matched with $25,000 from Mrs. Gayle Benson, UWSC has been an engine of St. Charles Parish’s recovery. They worked closely with parish government and other nonprofits and targeted their support towards those most in need—seniors, single-parent families, families making a low income, and those with disabilities.

United Way of St. Charles Bridge Run The Foundation’s funding went to both immediate needs and longer-term recovery support. Right after the storm, UWSC engaged in disaster cleanup, and offered housing for those most in need. Through supply distribution events, they shared critical supplies for their community, like tarps, hygiene prod-

ucts, water, ice, and clothing. In collaboration with their partners, they served over ten thousand meals.

They ended up moving in fully to the community college, serving as a resource within a resource in their community.

They also served as case managers for families in need of housing. When the St. Charles Parish government found out about a family of six with four small children who’d been living in a tent, they reached out to Dias and his team for help. Right away, UWSC put them up in a hotel, and then used their partnership with Catholic Charities to find them long term housing.

They provided temporary housing assistance like this for more than twenty families. Then, their case managers worked with FEMA to get these families approved for long-term housing support.

For Dias and his team, long-term recovery isn’t only about basic needs like housing and food. It’s also about bringing their community together around joy instead of tragedy—like their annual 5k run and walk over the Hale Boggs Bridge.

“I know maybe this sounds corny, but there really is a strong sense of community identity in St. Charles Parish, and between COVID and Ida in the last two years, we haven’t been able to hold this event. We get three thousand residents to come and run and walk across the bridge. And the bridge itself is very much a symbol. I think to the residents in St. Charles Parish, we identify with it—you know, if you were San Francisco, it would be the Golden Gate, and here in St. Charles Parish, it’s the Hale Boggs Bridge.”

USWC owns a small trailer they use for materials for the 5k each year. They tend to fill it with markers for the starting and finish lines and equipment for along the route. But during Hurricane Ida, they loaded it with food and water to distribute instead.

They adapted. Now, they’re ready to return to that moment of community health and celebration. They made the decision to hold the 5k run once more. Dias and his team are well underway in planning, and the event is scheduled for June.

Dias is excited to look ahead, but he is reflective about his experience during the storm. He’s proud of his team and his community.

“I think it was A Tale of Two Cities that starts off with ‘it was the best of times, it was the worst of times,’ right?” he says.

“Look, Ida was, in some ways, the worst of times—but in some ways, it produced the best of us.”

“TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO SAVE OUR COMMUNITY” The First Peoples Conservation Council

Pointe-au-Chien, Louisiana The Pointe-au-Chien Tribe has lived, planted, hunted, and fished on the land of Point-au-Chien, Louisiana for centuries, along with ancestors in the Chitimacha, Atakapas, Biloxi and Choctaw tribes.

But their rich wetlands have been disappearing. Their shrimping industry was decimated by the BP oil spill in 2010. Oil companies have sliced through their land, in recent decades, and erosion has sawed off the coastline. Saltwater from the gulf has flowed into freshwater marshes. Pointe-au-Chien sits on Louisiana’s gulf coast, and barrier islands have disappeared, making the region more vulnerable to waves and wind.

So when Hurricane Ida hit, it hit hard.

There are eighty homes in Point-au-Chien from where the Point-Au-Chien tribal building sits, to the

Oak Point Bridge, which crosses into Lafourche Parish. When the storm had passed, only 12 of those homes remained liveable.

“She almost wiped us out,” explains Theresa Dardar.

A house in Point-au-Chien, before (left) and after (right) Hurricane Ida. Dardar is the representative for the Point-au-Chien tribe at the First People’s Conservation Council (FPCC). The council was established in 2012 as an association of Native American tribes in coastal Louisiana devoted to protecting natural resources on their lands.

Long before Ida hit, the FPCC had been working to diminish the impact of hurricanes on their communities. Through their partnership with the FPCC, the Point-au-Chien tribe built oyster-shell barriers around sacred burial mounds. They created a “safe harbor” dock for the community to keep their boats safe during storms.

After Hurricane Ida, they turned to meeting their community’s immediate needs and trying to repair homes.

Dardar began soliciting donations and volunteer support, and by the Friday after the hurricane, supplies had started coming in. Since she and her husband were among the few in their community whose homes weren’t badly damaged, they showed up at the Point-Au-Chien tribal building to receive them.

Their goal, she says, was “to find ways to save our community and to rebuild.”

Through FPCC, Dardar had built a greenhouse that she’d been planning to open up in October.

Now, instead of filling it with plants, they started filling it with supplies. The tribal building became a

distribution center.

“We were getting deliveries every day. Sometimes, it was just a little bit, but it was enough to share,” Dardar says.

Dardar, her husband, and other community members worked alongside volunteers to organize and distribute food, clothes, and supplies.

“We had a lot of help, but my husband and I worked every day,” Dardar says. “Sometimes, we wouldn’t get home until ten at night. We worked on Sundays.”

Dardar directed many of the volunteers to work on cleaning up and mucking and gutting damaged houses. Tulane University sent a busload of students to help each weekend, and Dardar would send them to homes with tote bags that residents could use to carry out their belongings. But Dardar says that many members of their community are older, and sometimes the bags were too heavy for them to lift.

“They would put their stuff in there, but they couldn’t carry it down,” Dardar explains. “Our community has a lot of elderly people, so the younger ones, the students, would bring stuff down for them. They were a lot of help.”

Dardar was moved by this.

“It’s a heart feeling, to see that people care so much. This is the first time that we’ve gotten so much help. We’ve never gotten any help like that before.”

Eventually, she had to slow operations just slightly. “I don’t remember when I decided , but I said, ‘I think I’ve got to start closing on Sundays and go to church. Because I hadn’t been.’”

Now, their primary focus is helping the community rebuild their homes and return to Pointe-au-Chien.

“A lot of them haven’t started the rebuild because they don’t have enough money. We have money from the First Peoples Conservation Council to give them but even with that, even with what the tribe gave them and what FEMA gave them, it’s not enough. So you know, it’s gonna be a rough road,” she explains.

The Greater New Orleans Foundation has provided support here with a grant of $50,000. Dardar is pleased that it will go to other areas and tribes as well as her own.

“I appreciate that they gave the funds to the First People’s Conservation Council because it’s not just going to my tribe, it’s going to four other tribes,” she says.

Across the region, FPCC will support the efforts of tribes working to rebuild, and to strengthen protections across the land so that the next storm does less damage.

In Pointe-au-Chien, they’re focused next on backfilling the canals cut through their land by oil companies. This would form a protective barrier around tribal cemeteries in particular. Dardar knows that even with these adjustments and protections, some of their land will never be the same. Right now, though, she’s focused on the people she loves, who have lived on it for so long.

“I pray a lot that our community will come back, and like me and my husband always say, it’s gonna look different, but it’ll still be our community.”

A house in Point-au-Chien, before (left) and after (right) rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Ida.

Hurricane Ida Disaster Response & Restoration Fund Donors Since 2020, the Foundation’s Disaster Response and Restoration Fund has awarded over $11 million to nonprofits serving our 13-parish region. We acknowledge the generosity of many individuals and families, including leading contributions from the following donors:

Alan & Sherry Leventhal

Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP

Rockefeller Foundation

Aliski Family Fund

Freeport McMoran

Sharon D. Lund Foundation

Amalgamated Foundation

Further Forward Foundation

Silicon Valley Community

Annenberg Foundation

Glaxo Smith Kline

Foundation

Aramco Americas

Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund

Southern Insulators and Reliable

Arnold Ventures

Greg and Donna Howard Family

Glass and Mirror

Aronson – Besthoff Fund

Fund

Stephen Elledge

Arthur Jung III

Hilliard Lyons Trust

Swedish Match North America

Bertrand and Mariann Wilson

Hueber-Breuer Construction

The Arthur M. Blank Family

Family Fund

Company

Foundation

Boeing Company

Humana Foundation

The Baltimore Ravens and the

Canal Barge

IBERIABANK/First Horizon

Stephen and Renee Bisciotti

Capital One

J Aron Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Foundation, Inc.

Casey Langteau Art, LLC.

JP Morgan Chase Foundation

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of

Catherine Meehan Donor Advised

Kenneth Spradley Donor Advised

Louisiana Foundation

Fund

Fund

The Charles & Lucille King Family

Cathy and Walter Isaacson

Kresge Foundation

Foundation

Chevron USA

Molina Family Foundation

The Governor’s Disaster Fund

Delta Dental Community Care

Mrs. Gayle Benson

The PepsiCo Foundation

Foundation

Mrs. Lore Aloro

TJX Foundation

Dennis and Alisson Allen

Peterson Family Foundation

United Health Foundation, Inc.

Dick J. Guidry Fund

Rachael Schultz Fund

Walker Sturdivant

DJR Foundation

Reily Foundation/Ethel Reily Dicks

Wells Fargo

Donald B. Tanklage and Carole F.

Memorial Fund

William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable

Tanklage Foundation

Reily Foundation/H. Eustis &

Trust

Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family

Frederica G. Reily #1 Family Fund

William Randolph Hearst

Foundation

Reynolds American and Sante Fe

Foundation

Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas

Natural Tobacco Company

Winky Foundation

Five Below

Robert Merrick Family Fund

Hurricane Ida Disaster Response & Restoration Fund Grantees 504HealthNet

El Centro

Luke’s House Clinic

Acadiana Legal Services

El Pueblo NOLA - NOLA Village

Market Umbrella Crescent Saul’s Light Fund Saving Our Urban Maroon Landscape (SOUL)

All Hands and Hearts Bayou Community Foundation

Emergency Legal Responders

Sankofa

Mary Queen of Vietnam

SBP

Matthew 25:35

Second Harvest Food Bank

Familias Unidas

Mount Calvary Church

Feeding Louisiana

Music and Culture Coalition

Southeast Louisiana Legal Services

Bless Your Heart, Larose

Fletcher Technical Community College

NAMI New Orleans

Southern Mutual Help Association

Blessed to be a Blessing International Ministries

Forward Together New Orleans

NAMI St. Tammany

St. Charles Council on Aging, Inc.

Bayou Country Animal Foundation Bayou District Foundation Bayouland YMCA

Northshore Disaster Recovery

Bogalusa Help Center, Inc. Friends of Grand Isle Boys Town Louisiana

Giving Hope

Broadmoor Improvement Association

Habitat for Humanity

New Wine Christian Fellowship

Team Rubicon

Next to Eat

The Level Up Campaign

Nicholls State University Hurricane Relief Fund

The Salvation Army of Greater New Orleans

Hache Grants Association Nola Tree Project Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New OrleansHands On Northshore Food Bank

Together Louisiana

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Houma

Operation Restoration Our Daily Bread

Training Grounds

Household of Faith

Plaquemines Community C.A.R.E. Centers

United Houma Nation

Jefferson Community Foundation

Project Hope

Catholic Community Center, Galiano Circle of HOPE, Inc. Coastal Communities Consulting

Helio Foundation House of Tulip

Junior League of New Orleans Diaper Bank

Committee for a Better New Orleans Level Up Campaign Common Ground Relief Crescent City Family Services Culture Aid

Rebuilding Together New Orleans Red Cross

Rice and Beans Ministry First Peoples Conservation Council Rooted School Louisiana Policy Institute for Children

Samaritan’s Purse

Together New Orleans Uncommon Construction United Way of St. John Parish United Way St. Charles VIA LINK World Central Kitchen YMCA of Greater New Orleans

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