New Orleans Years ago Jane Bagley Lehman was the first board chair of the Tides Foundation. Her untimely passing, her grace, her generosity, and our friendship led to the creation of the “JBL’s” a Tides award given almost annually over the last 17 years in the name of citizen advocacy and policy making. It has …
Category: Rebuild New Orleans
Burger King for Hurricane Recovery
New Orleans We need your help in seeing if we can get some money for the ACORN Institute Hurricane Rebuilding and Recovery Fund. I’m not going to tell you for the gazillionth time how much we have been doing, but it’s a truckload, and you can access all of that by hitting www.acorn.org and then any …
Progress on New Orleans Plan
New Orleans The recovery czar, Ed Blakely, pirouetted importantly this week in New Orleans and revealed the 17 (not 15) areas where the City of New Orleans was committed to investing a billion dollars in focusing infrastructure improvements. Importantly, the largest single targeted investment was highlighted at $147,000,000 for the Lower 9th Ward. This is …