Breaking News: Volunteer Positions are now full. Thank You.

Contact our Volunteer Coordinator Caroline Smith for information on how to help with the NOLA Fired Up Conference. Volunteers will work about 8 hours total over the course of the conference's three days in return for a waiver of the registration fee. Please let us know if you have any special skills (e.g. knowledge of the area, dexterity with projection equipment) Caroline's email is cc.smith.cc@gmail.com.

Voluntourism New Orleans Style

Do you want to contribute to the rebuilding of our city while you are here? Besides just coming to visit us, we have identified three ways in which you can get involved in helping:

1) Donate art materials for a community center and an art center in the Holy Cross Neighborhood. This historic New Orleans neighborhood of working class folks is right on the river, across the industrial canal from downtown. It is in the fabled Lower 9th, called "lower" because it is farther downriver, not because it is particularly low compared to the rest of the city. The Holy Cross area flooded, even though it is above sea level, due to a breach in the Industrial Canal. The residents have developed a plan to rebuild sustainably, and want to be the first zero-carbon neighborhood in the country. They are hosting our Fire on the River event. They could use any kind of art supplies, including clays, glazes, wheels, and kilns. Schools throughout the city were badly damaged by the flood, and could also use donations.

2) Come a day or two early and lend a hand or stay a day or two late and volunteer to rebuild homes for returning residents around the city. Habitat for Humanity can take up to 100 volunteers a day, and there are many other groups building or rebuilding homes with volunteer labor. 

3) Or come a few days early and join us in the Holy Cross Neighborhood, where we will be collecting and sorting reclaimed wood, that would otherwise be landfilled, to used as fuel  in Fire on the River.