Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a grassroots membership-organization working for social justice and equality. Since Katrina, ACORN's semi-autonomous New Orleans chapter has been involved in lobbying Washington for federal funding for rebuilding, anti-bulldozing class action lawsuits on behalf of residents in the Lower 9 th Ward, organizing residents to prepare for the neighborhood planning process, and wide scale pro-bono gutting of flooded houses belonging to ACORN members from across the city.
Contact - Steve Bradberry 504-943-0044 laacornnoho@acorn.org 
Advancement Project is working through a coordination of organizations working on legal issues and rights in New Orleans called the Grass Roots Legal Movement. We are supporting their work around worker rights in New Orleans; looking at both the exploitation of undocumented workers and job development and access and for African Americans residents.
Contact - Ishmael Muhammad, ishmaelmuhammad@yahoo.com
Jen Lai 858-776-9123
C3 Hands Off Iberville is an organizing group working on public housing in New Orleans. Their current focus is on supporting public housing residents to return to their homes in New Orleans.
Contact - Jay Arena jarena@tulan.edu 315-593-2799
Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers. The mission of IWJ's Rebuilding the Gulf Coast with Equity is to pursue public policies leading to worker justice in New Orleans.
Jefferson Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, LA is generously supporting the Unitarian Universalist congregations of New Orleans with worship and office space due to damage in their buildings.
Jeremiah Group (Industrial Areas Foundation-IAF Affiliate) is a consortium of local churches organized before the storm. Post-Katrina the Jeremiah Group has worked to help pastors locate evacuated parishioners and identify and meet their needs. The Jeremiah Group is currently exploring homebuilding and homeownership programs for its members.
Contact - Jacquie Jones-Soule jeremiahgroupno@yahoo.com 504-491-1179
Louisiana Worker's Center (LWC) is a member of the New Orleans Worker Justice Coalition. The goal of LWC is to create and launch an independent but collaborative community-based organization advocating for and organizing workers in post-Katrina New Orleans in a multi-racial, multi-industry context. They are contributors to the July 2006 report funded by the UUA/UUSC Gulf Coast Relief Fund "And Injustice for All 
: Workers' Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans."
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans, Inc. (NHS) was founded to help move low and moderate income residents from rentals to homeownership. Post-Katrina NHS's focus has expanded to include development of a network of interconnected community centers offering a variety of social services including housing and homeownership counseling.
Contact - Lauren Anderson 504-258-0018 cell nhsnewsorleans@yahoo.com
New Orleans Network emerged post-Katrina as an information sharing tool for organizers and community members. Housed on the internet, the New Orleans Network's function is to provide a community calendar and database with information on organizations, services, events and fundraising. Contact - Shana Sassoon shanasassoon@yahoo.com 713-857-4694
PICO All Congregations Together (ACT) of New Orleans is the New Orleans chapter of the national community organizing group PICO. In New Orleans they work with ministers, schools and community leaders to mobilize evacuees and returnees around the right to return, the right to vote, the right to services etc. They carry out an active advocacy agenda on behalf of those affected by the hurricane.
Contact Mary Fontenot 504-495-5338
The People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Committee (PHRF/OC) is a broad-based coalition whose activities are spread across fourteen working groups and whose stated focus is on the needs and perspectives of marginalized, poor, African-American survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Currently PHRF is engaged in developing affordable housing, opening a center for reconstruction workers, and developing a 'Peoples' Plan' as a response to the city's official neighborhood planning process.
Contact – Khalil Shahyd Khalil@aol.com
or Kali Akuno-Williams kaliaw@sbcglobal.net 510-593-3956
The Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training is based out of the larger Vietnamese community concentrated in New Orleans East. Prior to the storm, VIET was involved in a variety of advocacy and job training programs as well as offering an annual summer day camp for kids. IN the wake of Katrina, VIET has broadened its focus to include advocacy and support in navigating the bureaucracies of insurance, taxes, FEMA aid packages and absentee voting. VIET has been extremely successful at mobilizing residents in this hard hit neighborhood; now the organization is trying to expand its tax and legal support programs, reopen its summer day camp and establish a recreation center for neighborhood youth.
Contact - Cyndi Ngyn 504-415-4905 vietno@nextel.blackberry.net
Zion Travelers Cooperative Center is a community initiative in Phoenix, Plaquemines parish, an area almost completely neglected since the hurricane. They have organized a community relief distribution center for Phonenix and surrounding communities, and are organizing a community tool and equipment loan center. Their cooperative brings the community together to solve problems and provide information and access to services.
Contact: Rev Tyrone Edwards sadikiimhotep@yahoo.com 504-473-2996
East Biloxi Center for Coordination and Relief supports the individuals, families, small businesses and neighborhoods of East Biloxi as they rebuild their community in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Contact: Bill Stallworth - 228-297-8187
Gulf Coast Missionary Baptist District Association is organizing work teams to come down to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to work on homes devastated by Hurricane Katrina for families who are not covered by insurance, whose insurance will not pay for flood damage or whose FEMA grant will not cover repairs.
Contact: Rev. Larry G Hawkins, Sr. 228-769-0128 (home) 228-218-3042 (cell), ubcpasms@aol.com or gcdams@aol.com
Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA) works with both documented and undocumented immigrants in Mississippi helping them claim and defend their rights i n the aftermath of both Katrina and Rita.
Contact: Bill Chandler - (601) 594-3564, bcmobilize@bellsouth.net
Vicky Sentra - (228) 386-5164
Turkey Creek Community Initiatives (TCCI) is an innovative non-profit community development corporation engaged in the comprehensive revitalization of coastal Mississippi impoverished, historic and ecologically important Turkey Creek community and watershed.
Contact: Derrick Evans, 228-863-0847, turkeycreekbrother@earthlink.net
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