Friday marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall. The New Orleans Times-Picayune says that there is “indisputable evidence of recovery” even while the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation warns that “‘Katrina fatigue’ in Congress and elsewhere … could affect future efforts.”
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation just released a second report on the state of the recovery, New Orleans Three Years After the Storm (PDF). The Foundation Center has a new page, Focus on Gulf Coast Hurricane Giving, with charts and maps to explore more than 4,000 of the grants awarded by U.S. funders.
A roundup of other new articles about Katrina recovery:
- Post-Katrina Grantmaking by Greater New Orleans Foundation Tops $41 Million
Foundation Center - New Orleans’ Youth Movement: Nonprofit leaders work to persuade young professionals who arrived after Katrina to call city home
Chronicle of Philanthropy - Nonprofits Reach Plateau After Post-K Groundswell
New Orleans City Business - Human Rights Network Decries Lack of Progress for Gulf Coast Hurricane Victims
PNN Online - A Look at the Good That’s Happened Since Katrina
NetSquared - Update: Gulf Coast Recovery Three Years After Katrina
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MCF will host a program, Funders’ Response to Disaster: Lessons Learned, on Sept. 16. Local grantmakers will find out what has been learned from past corporate and private support in response to disaster relief that will help make it most effective in the future.
