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Common Ground Relief (CGR) was founded on September 5, 2005 by Malik Rahim, Sharon Johnson, and Scott Crow in the aftermath of Katrina.

Common Ground Relief cultivates environmental and community stewardship in Southeast Louisiana to help residents not only survive but thrive

Marsh Restoration at Grand Bayou

Story by Jeff Young at newsweek.com Our very own Josh Benitez was recently featured as a Planet Hero on Newsweek’s Better Planet....

Today, locals in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward call the Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands Triangle a “ghost swamp.”

Though it was only 8 a.m., the temperature was rising above 90 degrees as my housemate and I got ready to drive to Bayou Bienvenue for my...

Hurricane Ida hit Southeast Louisiana hard. Fortunately, Common Ground Relief experienced only minor damage and was able to spring into acti