Mission

DESCRIPTION:
Nearly five years ago Hurricane(s) Katrina (and Rita) ravaged the City of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf at large. Today, residents of New Orleans struggle to rebuild their lives while many are still unable to return home. The concept of HubSpot.NOLA is to create a network built to connect New Orleanians with the resources they need. Is an outlet intended to direct volunteers and advocates from anywhere towards New Orleans based organizations that they can work with. There are a tremendous amount of community and volunteer based non-profit organizations in New Orleans focused on rebuilding the city. Unfortunately, they are too often understaffed and underfunded. We aim to be the "central nervous system" that connects them together, and with supporters around the world. We are also developing a fund raising platform as well, to generate donations and sustain our business efforts.

GOALS:
For June 2010
1. We will have a well researched and detailed mock-up of our hard copy resource publication.
2. We will have an equally well researched and outlined plan for our website.
3. We will have developed out fund raising system.

For August 29th, 2010 (5th Anniversary of Katrina)
1. We will launch our website
3. We will have a prototype copy of our first newsletter.
4. We will have researched the process of incorporating as a Non-Profit organization and will have a well detailed plan for doing so.

Looking forward:
We will host monthly awareness events from September 2010 through September of 2011 and will continue to maintain our website as well as producing and distributing two separate issues of our Newsletter.

Contributed by Sarah Jampol-Auerbach