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The Tides community has a long history of supporting victims of natural and civil disasters across the globe. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Tides donors have pooled together once again to support relief and recovery efforts in the Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Alabama Gulf Coast.
The Relief and Reconstruction Fund supports grassroots and advocacy organizations working for short-term and long-term efforts in the affected regions. The Fund is also supporting groups that need to strengthen their infrastructure and provide on-going leadership in the region, particularly in communities of color.
The awards are based on the funding strategies articulated at the Race & Poverty session at Momentum Leadership Conference 2006, specifically:
| Organization | Work Description | Approved |
| Study of Race and Ethnicity's Katrina and Beyond, Race and Space in America | A collaboration between a number of social justice groups and faith communities to call on America to recognize humanity’s linked fate and to acknowledge the proper role and responsibility of Federal government in ensuring that its urban citizens have access to key life opportunities and ground present and future work in a deeply moral and multi-dimensional values base. Collaborative members include National Alliance to Restore Opportunity to the Gulf Coast, Kirwan Institute, Opportunity Agenda, Center for Social Inclusion, Gamaliel, and Sustainable Metropolitan Community Initiative. |
$50,000.00 |
| New Orleans ACORN | Sponsors the Katrina Survivors Assoication project to gut and rebuild houses for residents, while advocating to save homes that can be salvaged and ensure that City criteria for demolition are applied equitably |
$10,000.00 |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi | Jackson, MS For the Access to Government Project, to train and provide assistance to community groups and individuals who want to play a greater role in decision-making and participate in state and local processes currently addressing Katrina-related issues. |
$15,000.00 |
| Boat People SOS | Helps Asian communities access public benefits |
$5,000.00 |
| Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center | Racial justice, policy group led by James Terry (MS Fair Housing Action) |
$10,000.00 |
| League of United Latin American Citizens - LULAC | Bi-lingual service supporting immigrant survivors |
$5,000.00 |
| Southern Mutual Help Association | Responding to crisis facing farm workers, fishing families, immigrants and refugees |
$10,000.00 |
| To be Awarded | Selection of shared non-profit space to to serve organizations in New Orleans. |
$10,000.00 |
| $115,000.00 |
| Organization | Work Description | Approved |
| Deep South Center for Environmental Justice | Safe Way Back Home program helps displaced New Orleanians in Baton Rouge, Houston, Jackson, Birmingham, Atlanta, Memphis and Dallas organize local advisory boards, educate each other about issues related to rebuilding their neighborhoods, and to safely clean the arsenic, diesel fuel and other contaminants from their property. |
$15,000.000 |
| Community-In-Power and Development Association, Inc - Port Arthur, TX | To help African American, low-income and elderly residents and displaced persons in Port Arthur recover and rebuild; and to continue ongoing community organizing to address pollution from the area’s oil refineries. |
$10,000.000 |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | Overseesing environmental quality and clean up in St. Bernard |
$15,000.00 |
| Moving Forward Gulf Coast | Offers direct assistance, advocacy, training and other tools for poor and working-class communities in after Hurricane Katrina. The group developed a training video to encourage homeowners to use bioremedial products to clean up hazardous mold, and organized hundreds of volunteers to fix up storm-damaged properties in Slidell, Louisiana and Pearlington, Mississippi. |
$10,000.00 |
| The 21st Century Foundation | Support Gulf South Funding Circle and The Hurricane Katrina Initiative |
$25,000.00 |
| $75,000.000 |
| Organization | Work Description | Approved |
| Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights | Southern Relief Fund |
$5,000.00 |
| Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA | Provides relief services and training to Hmong leadership and influx of families into Arkansas and Missouri lured by poultry contracts |
$5,000.00 |
| Service Employees International Union - SEIU - NYC | Black and Brown Workers Project |
$5,000.00 |
| New Orleans Worker Justice Coalition - NOLA | To foster a coalition of organizations and individuals to support workers’ rights, and build infrastructure for multi-racial worker organizing and empowerment. |
$5,000.00 |
| $20,000.00 | ||
Network for Good is offering nonprofits in Katrina affected areas a set of fundraising web-based services for free for one year. Learn more here.
