Volunteer Information

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Thank you for your interest in Common Ground Relief. With few houses remaining to muck and gut, Common Ground has shifted its focus to rebuilding a more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable New Orleans. We want to strengthen our programs that confront socio-economic inequality and environmental degradation. In addition, we will continue to develop programs that address unemployment, drug addiction, hunger, food insecurity, homelessness, and police corruption.

Common Ground Relief has now consolidated many of its facilities into several houses in the Lower 9th ward. Common Ground's Legal, Media and Tech projects are now housed at the Anita Roddick Advocacy Center located at 1800 Deslonde Street. Volunteer housing is now provided in the Lower 9th at 1800 Deslonde Street and other nearby properties.

We are looking for skilled volunteers, both short and long term, with expertise in our project areas, including construction, dry wall hanging, carpentry, painting, roofing, plumbing, electric work, legal aid, social work, media/PR, and computer technology.

Please fill out a volunteer application and contact the volunteer coordinator. Allow one week for a response to your application.

Long-term volunteers will be living in close quarters (dorm style) in the Lower 9th ward. To ensure that these work communities run effectively, we require prospective long-term volunteers to participate in our application process. Please download an application (doc or pdf) or request one by emailing the volunteer coordinator.

Please remember that we do not allow dogs at our volunteer housing site. If you are traveling with a pet, you will have to find alternative housing arrangements for it while you are working with us.

Please get a tetanus shot before you come down to New Orleans. While there is a free clinic here that you can go to, this is a community clinic. Using the scarce resources that the clinic has means that there is less for the impoverished area that they serve.

For questions or concerns about volunteering with us, please check our Volunteer Information and Frequently Asked Questions pages. For further questions contact the volunteer coordinator at commongroundvolunteers(at)gmail.com. Thank you for your continued support and solidarity in this grass-roots effort to sustain residents of New Orleans as they fight to rebuild their neighborhoods and communities.