Katrina Networking

I am using my networking and marketing skills to pass along vital information to organizations, volunteers and survivors of the 2005 hurricane season. Grants, networking, advocating, assistance resources, articles and more. Updated regularly to better assist you.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

January 17 CoHR

The AFBF (American Farm Bureau Federation) is holding their convention in NOLA. The following blog is by a couple of guys reporting for Brownfield.

Hopefully they'll have more than this single post, so please go back to the site to keep an eye on it...

http://learfieldcreative.typepad.com/brownfield/2008/01/tom-and-pete-in.html

A Professor at Emory begins studying NOLA post-Katrina from a far different perspective:

Green’s work extends beyond the classroom to many areas of service and study including task forces on sexuality, violence, bioethics, and worker justice for the Boston Theological Institute and serving as faculty adviser for Hurricane Katrina Relief trips in 2006 and 2007. She has also been speaking and writing on ethics in the aftermath of Katrina.
“The topic is one that I, as a native New Orleanian, find especially compelling and a continuing concern in the recovery of New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast,” she said.

http://www.law.emory.edu/home/news-article/article/green-to-explore-changed-religion-and-human-rights-horizon.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=288&cHash=6ba96c89a5

State Farm is at it again - They need PROOF you chose to rebuild or they'll cancel your policy...

http://aminthemorning.blogspot.com/2008/01/by-ana-maria-there-ought-to-be-national.html

So, let's get this straight. Hurricane Katrina battered homes with its 175 mile-per-hour winds ripping them apart as if made of straw and spit. Then insurance companies like State Farm deliberately and wrongly failed to pay American families for the wind related damages to those homes and the cost of living expenses while the home was being repaired, damages that the wind coverage under homeowner insurance policies cover.

A Health Clinic In A Home Set Up By Nurses - Lower 9th.

http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2008/01/13/new-orleans-nurses-turn-home-into-clinic/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Farticle.php%3Fid%3DD8U54RLG0%26show_article%3D1%26catnum%3D0&frame=true

The Lower 9th Ward Health Clinic is its official name now.
"A medical home," Patricia Berryhill calls the facility offering primary care.
Before Katrina, this was Berryhill's own home. The living room where her kids congregated after school serves as a waiting area now, its walls painted a peaceful powder blue. The bedrooms are exam cubicles, the kitchen a file room and office.

Intellectual Discussion About Journalism In Disasters

http://peoplemedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/media-and-power.html

The most memorable photographs of the London terrorist bombing last summer were taken by subway riders using cell phones, not by news photographers, who didn’t have time to get there. There were more ordinary people than paid reporters posting information when the tsunami first hit South Asia, in 2004, when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, in 2005, and when Israeli bombs hit Beirut this summer. I am in an especially good position to appreciate the benefits of citizen journalism at such moments, because it helped save my father and stepmother’s lives when they were stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

FEMA Wins Appeal On Rent Aid

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/other/1110//01-07-2008/20080107183512_04.html"There is simply no indication that the regulations constrain FEMA's discretion to the point that it is bound to provide assistance to all eligible individuals," Judge Carolyn King wrote on behalf of a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit.

Business Tax Assistance, Even 2 Years After

http://www.flixya.com/post/blockhead/94453/Hurricane_Katrina_-_Businesses_Can_Claim_Casualty

If your business suffered losses because of Hurricane Katrina, you can at least write-off much of the loss. In doing so, you may be able to get a refund of taxes paid earlier in the year.
Tax law allows businesses to write-off business property that is damaged or destroyed because of a storm.

With the federal governments delay in rescue operations, your business may have suffered losses related to theft. New Orleans, in particular, seems to have suffered an outbreak of theft problems. While I can understand a person taking water and food, I must admit I have little empathy for people stealing television sets.

Ads Showing How Little Has Changed

http://www.print.duncans.tv/2008/katrina-foundation-for-recovery/

The Katrina Foundation for Recovery campaign was developed at La Comunidad, Miami. “The whole point there is that the whole country is focused on something so far from here and there are problems in our backyard that no one is paying attention to,” said Jose Molla, co-founder of La Comunidad in Miami. “The idea is to show what the situation is like now. It’s amazing how badly it sill looks in the non-tourist areas.”

First Responders Out of TeleCom Loop Again

http://phoenixwoman.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/safety-last/

It has happened countless times, and will now apparently happen countless times again: first responders such as police and firemen will be unable to talk to one another because their communications equipment is not interoperable.

Video of a Katrina Diary

http://origin.www.spike.com/video/2929123

While residents along the Southeastern United States boarded their homes and evacuated for Hurricane Katrina, one Mississippi resident saw an opportunity to use his new filming gear not knowing how serious Hurricane Katrine would be and that it would be the last time he would ever see his house again.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Thanksgiving CoHR

The only reason I see a need to push the seasons of Thanksgiving and Christmas is when people in need are involved. Last year, many organizations and people (myself included) got blind-sided by the holidays, scrambling to organize assistance.

So many of these survivors still don't have Christmas ornaments! No stockings, no money for presents for their children, nothing for Thanksgiving.

This year, many of us have been anticipating this and have begun our campaigns early. The following links are different examples of what people are doing, what some hope to have done, what some wish could be. If you are touched in anyway, please help. $10 buys a gift or 50 ornaments. $20 can buy a prelit Christmas tree. $50 buys Thanksgiving for at least a family of 4.

My Pop Art is doing its part to help

Buy a Calendar For Your Babe!

Boat People Reports On The Katrina Cash Crunch

Hurricane Katrina Relief's Efforts

TryNova's Holiday Coping For Survivors

CE's Post for Pickin' Up The Pieces

8 Days of Hope is Going for New Years

JudyB of Thanks, Katrina, posts about a volunteer memorial

NOLA Catholic Charities Event

Baton Rouge Catholic Charities

Leslie's Work for The Holidays

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Carnival of Hurricane Relief Oct 18

Progress Seen From Southern Miss Alumni

Desert Bayou being shown in Iowa

Ana Marie's Reporting on Congressional Bill For Home Owners

A Book Review of Holding Out and Hanging On By Freshare

Facing South Shows The Continued Neglect of Washington Leaving Children Behind

Marine Environment News Highlights More Small Business Help

Beyond Katrina Publishes Report On Non Profits

CL&P discusses Foreclosure Rates and Katrina Connection

Brave New Films Highlights Kaiser Family Foundation Study on "Lazy Katrina Victims"

YA'LL Sponsoring Events

One Survivor's Ongoing Story....

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Good Blogs

Anderson Cooper of CNN
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/
Artisan Relief
http://www.artisanrelief.blogspot.com/
Bay St. Louis
http://baystlouisrelief.blogspot.com/
Bay St Louis Artist
http://thekatrinacollectionbylorikgordon.blogspot.com
http://lorikgordon.blogspot.com
"Beyond Katrina" PBS Series
http://beyondkatrina.blogspot.com/2006/08/week-on-coast-in-pearlington-adam.html#comments
This particular post is about Pearlington in Hancock County. The rest are just about the recovery in general. Very good! Thank you Val!
Carnival of Hurricane Relief - WOW
http://www.cehwiedel.com/cohr/
3/8 Andy Chapman's Personal Blog - with Lagniappe Church in BSL
http://www.lifeishappening.blogspot.com/
Clayton Cubitt's - About his hometown, Pearlington.
www.OperationEden.Blogspot.com
Coastal Community Watch - Hancock County Watchdog Group
http://www.coastalcommunitywatch.blogspot.com/
Dangle's Blog - A Great Guy From NOLA Who Cares Enough To Piss You Off
http://a-view-from-the-evil-center.blogspot.com/
Gulf Coast Artists -
http://www.gulfcoastartists.blogspot.com/
Please send artists to this site and have them sign up to be included. As it grows, it will be indexed to help focus types of artists so people can be more selective. Lori is trying to show a sample of each artist's work along with all contact information possible...
Hancock County Agency Information
www.HancockCountyRelief.blogspot.com
3/9 Hancock County Events Calendar
http://www.visitmississippi.org/packages/search.asp?city_mode=true&Group=Consumer
Hands On Gulf Coast
http://handsongulfcoast.blogspot.com/
Hands On Network
http://blog.handsonnetwork.org/
Katrina Advocating
http://katrinaadvocate.blogspot.com/
Lagniappe Presbyterian's Intern Blog
http://www.lagniappeinterns.blogspot.com/
3/8 Marketing from a MS Resident
http://www.resultsrevolution.com/weblog/
MS Forestry - general information on forestry and recovery news. Good links
http://msforestry.blogspot.com/
A NOLA Blog - VERY good.
http://www.confederacyofdunces.com/
Pearlington
http://pearlingtonrelief.blogspot.com/
Princess Sparkling Pony's take on Laura Bush Visiting Ocean Springs (2/22)
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/2007/02/she-joker-frightens-children-goes.html
Police Fire Ambulance Information
http://katrinapolicefireambulance.blogspot.com/
3/14 Salem OR Katrina Relief Blog
http://salemkatrina.blogspot.com/
Sheds of Hope
http://www.drtomarmourblog.blogspot.com/
Since Katrina...
http://sincekatrina.blogspot.com/
The author challenges you to submit your sentance that starts with "Since Katrina..."
Serving Waveland - Started by Coastal Community Watch. Dated, but still relevant
http://servewaveland.blogspot.com/
Solving Poverty
http://solvingpoverty.blogspot.com/
Waveland
http://wavelandrelief.blogspot.com/

There are others, but I follow mostly through links on all of these. Follow their links. The world through their eyes is amazing.

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