HandsOn New Orleans thanks you for your support.
For the month of August Ralph's on the Park featured the Louisiana Blueberry Mojito in honor of HandsOn New Orleans; 20% of the proceeds will be donated to HandsOn.
Thank you for your patience as we continue to identify areas where volunteers can be deployed. We appreciate deeply the nation's outpouring of support and the many offers of assistance. Because oil is a toxic substance and dangerous if handled improperly, only specially trained responders may clean it up or dispose of it. BP is paying contractors to do this work. Volunteers at this time will not be assigned to oil-touching activities.
If you have not already done so, please register at www.volunteerlouisiana.gov to receive updates and information on any volunteer opportunities as they are identified. The registration form is found in the red boxed area on the homepage of this website. Please make sure you add laserve@crt.state.la.us and jpace@crt.state.la.us to your mailbox addresses so updates are not returned.
While there are still limited environmental response activities today, we are working with conservation groups who are developing a strategy for what will be a long recovery effort. At the same time, the human services volunteer opportunities continue to grow. For more information on volunteer opportunities, visit the HandsOn New Orleans Oil Spill Response Calendar or the Catholic Charities of New Orleans website.
We continue to receive an increasing number of calls and emails from individuals and businesses wanting to donate goods or financial support to assist nonprofits responding to this event. While we are not asking you to donate, unsolicited donations may be offered in the following manner: for donations with an estimated cash value up to $10,000, submit the offer through the National Donations Management Network at www.aidmatrixnetwork.org by clicking on LA on the map. For offers that exceed an estimated cash value of $10,000, please go to http://labeoc.org/offer. This public/private partnership manages large donations during all hazards emergencies.
Depending on your locations and availability, you may also want to reach out to www.volunteermississippi.org, www.servealabama.gov or www.volunteerflorida.org to see what volunteer opportunities they may have. HandsOn New Orleans will continue to keep volunteers updated as the situation changes.
While you await news of opportunities on the Gulf Coast, we encourage you to look within your own communities to work with organizations that could use your willing heart and passion to benefit local citizens.
Working with the Unified Command and our partners in the communities, we can recover our shorelines and communities and maintain the safety and security of our volunteers as well as the general public. Again, thank you for your interest.
-The 2010 Principal for a Day page is now up on our website. To check it out, click here.
-HandsOn New Orleans is seeking dynamic individuals for our Volunteer Leader Internship Program. Benefits include internship credit, leadership training and more. For additional information concerning this posting, please contact Lindsay Nash at (504) 483-7041 ext. 107 or lnash@handsonneworleans.org.
-HandsOn New Orleans recently received a grant from the Community Impact Program at the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
-HandsOn New Orleans has moved! Our main office is now in the old Coca-Cola bottle building at 1050 S. Jefferson Davis Parkway Suite 203, New Orleans, LA 70125.
-Do you need tools to complete a repair project? HandsOn New Orleans Tool Lending Library is Now Open!
-Also check out our new Tool Lending Library blog at http://honotll.blogspot.com
