Partners
"Since 1992 the Louisiana Delta Service Corps has placed over 1,050 full time AmeriCorps members in public schools, non-profits, grassroots, faith-based and community organizations to provide direct service and build capacity in those organizations."

At Common Ground Relief we have 3 Delta Corps members amongst our volunteers:

Megan McHugh and Kira Matica are heading up our "Garden of Eatin" program. A food science and nutrition program for 3rd and 5th graders at Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in the Lower Ninth Ward. The program also includes the creation of a school garden.

Kira will also be teaching our Wetlands program that has been created for MLK with our partner Bayou Rebirth.

Sam Friedhof is heading up our Volunteer Home Construction program for returning residents rebuilding their homes.

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"We at FutureProof are passionate about designing sustainable systems - buildings, landscapes, communities and businesses. We work with advanced building systems, find technologies appropriate to the user’s climate, and assist our clients in adopting sustainable practice as an integration of their operations and practice. This unique combination has made us a consultancy leader in sustainable design not only in the New Orleans area, but throughout the Gulf Coast region."

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"Evacuteer.org believes that like-minded organizations with volunteer manpower as well as unaffiliated citizen volunteers can coordinate their efforts at a level of effectiveness higher than any could do acting independently.

We believe that citizens and neighborhoods can have as much power and effectiveness keeping their neighbors safe as any private or governmental organization has.

Our goal is successful, efficient, sanitary, and safe evacuation of all New Orleanians."

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Charter School

 Following the Hurricanes of 2005, Common Ground Volunteers gutted the site of what has now opened as the Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School, the only school presently open in the Lower 9th Ward.

Doris Hicks, the School's principal sits on our Board of Directors. She also serves on the National Assessment Governing Board.

Students at the Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School participate in both our Wetlands Education program and our Garden of Eatin' Project.

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"Founded in 2007, Bayou Rebirth is a 501(c)3 non-profit that preserves and restores communities in South Louisiana through hands-on wetlands restoration and stewardship projects.

We take local and visiting volunteers into the wetlands to learn how to plant grasses, plants, and trees. We also teach local students how to build and maintain nurseries of plants which they ultimately plant themselves in local wetlands."