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Here, we regularly highlight distinctive, diverse neighborhoods that have always played a part in making New
Orleans & gulf coast unique! SEND US YOUR PIX!!
(NOTE: SOME NEIGHBORHOOD LINKS ARE TEMPORARILY DISABLED)
UPTOWN DOWNTOWN
METAIRIE WEST BANK
NORTH SHORE MIDCITY
NINTH WARD NEW ORLEANS EAST
ST BERNARD PARISH KENNER
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST
Send an e-mail request to webmaster@katrinaconnection.com, and we'll gladly link to your neighborhood organization!
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Neighborhood Network Weaves A Fine Multi-Cultural Robe
Unique neighborhoods, music, and food - all as diverse as day and night - are all part of what makes
New Orleans what it is. Like some rare fabric woven into a Joseph-like robe to be worn on stage for
a forever-curious nation, the neighborhoods of New Orleans carry virtues true to every close-knit
society. They are the threads needed to recreate a great city.
Part of that job lies with the Neighborhood Partnership Network (NPN), which since 2006 has served
as a kind of seamstress working to complete an outfit for a big event, grasping the post-Katrina atmos-
phere of hopelessness and giving residents a vision and hope of what could and should be done in any
ravaged city in the world.
Connecting with over 50 New Orleans neighborhood associations, a print and online newsletter called
"The Trumpet", monthly forums, workshops, and trainings for neighborhood activists and leaders, the
NPN brings together everyday citizens, volunteers, organizations, business people, and government for
collaboration and community empowerment.
Recently the NPN held its annual "Trumpet Awards" and "Toast To New Orleans Neighborhoods"
ceremonies to honor several community citizens, businesses, and organizations. A "Festival of Neighborhoods" where residents are
encouraged to showcase their community contributions and share information was held the next day at Gentilly Terrace Elementary
School. The festival featured dozens of neighborhood and charitable organizations, food booths, spacewalks for the kids, music by
deejay Luke Skywalker and music by the Free Agents Brass Band.
Unique neighborhoods, music, and food - all as diverse as day and night - are all part of what makes
New Orleans what it is. Like some rare fabric woven into a Joseph-like robe to be worn on stage for
a forever-curious nation, the neighborhoods of New Orleans carry virtues true to every close-knit
society. They are the threads needed to recreate a great city.
Part of that job lies with the Neighborhood Partnership Network (NPN), which since 2006 has served
as a kind of seamstress working to complete an outfit for a big event, grasping the post-Katrina atmos-
phere of hopelessness and giving residents a vision and hope of what could and should be done in any
ravaged city in the world.
Connecting with over 50 New Orleans neighborhood associations, a print and online newsletter called
"The Trumpet", monthly forums, workshops, and trainings for neighborhood activists and leaders, the
NPN brings together everyday citizens, volunteers, organizations, business people, and government for
collaboration and community empowerment.
Recently the NPN held its annual "Trumpet Awards" and "Toast To New Orleans Neighborhoods"
ceremonies to honor several community citizens, businesses, and organizations. A "Festival of Neighborhoods" where residents are
encouraged to showcase their community contributions and share information was held the next day at Gentilly Terrace Elementary
School. The festival featured dozens of neighborhood and charitable organizations, food booths, spacewalks for the kids, music by
deejay Luke Skywalker and music by the Free Agents Brass Band.
Free Agents Brass Band
Scene from the festival
Help Still Needed In Ongoing
LSU Katrina Survivor Survey
It has been almost three years since hurricane Katrina struck our communities, and the LSU
Post-Katrina Community Survey is an ongoing effort of the school's Department of Sociology
to take stock of what has happened in our neighborhoods and Greater New Orleans since
hurricane Katrina.
KatrinaConnection.com is partnering with LSU in Baton Rouge to help take stock of what we’ve gone through, what we have
accomplished, and what challenges still remain. We ask all hurricane Katrina survivors (adults 18 and older) - even if they’ve
moved away - to participate in a survey conducted with full privacy and confidentiality by the LSU Survey Lab. It will survey
both neighbors who have returned and those who are still displaced, to help us understand community needs and plan our
recovery.
You can complete the survey at www.lsukatrinasurvey.com. More information about the survey is on that web page. Anyone
without Internet access may have another person assist them in answering questions and reporting responses. Help spread the
word. If you can, please contact family and friends who lived in your neighborhood when the hurricane struck, and ask them to
participate, too – even if they’ve moved away!
LSU Katrina Survivor Survey
It has been almost three years since hurricane Katrina struck our communities, and the LSU
Post-Katrina Community Survey is an ongoing effort of the school's Department of Sociology
to take stock of what has happened in our neighborhoods and Greater New Orleans since
hurricane Katrina.
KatrinaConnection.com is partnering with LSU in Baton Rouge to help take stock of what we’ve gone through, what we have
accomplished, and what challenges still remain. We ask all hurricane Katrina survivors (adults 18 and older) - even if they’ve
moved away - to participate in a survey conducted with full privacy and confidentiality by the LSU Survey Lab. It will survey
both neighbors who have returned and those who are still displaced, to help us understand community needs and plan our
recovery.
You can complete the survey at www.lsukatrinasurvey.com. More information about the survey is on that web page. Anyone
without Internet access may have another person assist them in answering questions and reporting responses. Help spread the
word. If you can, please contact family and friends who lived in your neighborhood when the hurricane struck, and ask them to
participate, too – even if they’ve moved away!
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