OUR SPONSORS & PARTNERS: it takes a village

Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED)
Founded in April 2007, CSED’s mission is to stimulate civic engagement and restorative rebuilding, sustain natural systems, and preserve resources toward the re-creation and repopulation of a strong community that is active, resilient, prosperous, energy independent and as beautiful as possible. More here >

Alliance For Affordable Energy
The Alliance for Affordable Energy is a New Orleans based non-profit organization dedicated to the creation of sound and sustainable energy policy while supporting residents to rebuild in an energy efficient and environmentally sound manner. Founded in 1985, the organization handles energy issues from rate changes to power plant pollution, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. More here >

Best of the Best Limousine Service
The best limousine service in New Orleans.

BNIM Architects
With 38 years of experience as a multidisciplinary architectural firm, Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell Architects has built a reputation for thoughtful and responsive design, thorough technical competence, and conscientious service. With offices in Kansas City, Missouri, Houston, Texas , Des Moines, Iowa and Los Angeles, California, the firm’s areas of expertise include sustainable design and community redevelopment, urban planning and design, educational facilities, campus master planning, residential and corporate office spaces. More here >

Building Materials Reuse Association
The Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit national organization whose mission is to facilitate building deconstruction and the reuse/recycling of used building materials. More here >

CBR: Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research
CBR’s mission is to conduct and coordinate interdisciplinary research and learning to enhance global understanding of environmental issues, provide solutions through innovative applications and communication, and inform policy and practice. More here >

Canoe & Trail Adventures
Canoe and Trail is a business that specializes in offering outdoor adventure trips and wilderness skills classes primarily to residents of the greater New Orleans area. More here >

Christman Corporation
The Christman Company provides a full range of services to meet all of your facility needs including Program Management, Design/Build, Construction Management, General Contracting, and Build to Suit / Leaseback. More here >

Common Ground Relief
The Common Ground Collective, a community-initiated volunteer organization, was established in the first week after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans to offer community assistance, mutual aid and support. Common Ground's mission is to provide short term relief for victims of hurricane disasters in the Gulf Coast region and long-term support in rebuilding the communities affected in the New Orleans area. More here >

The Creative Department
Founded in 1992, the Creative Department is a Cincinnati ad agency that has built business by breathing life into brands and framing communications in delightfully compelling ways – whether traditional, interactive or guerrilla. Their clients include BHDP Architecture, a national firm dedicated to 'experience architecture’, the Fine Arts Fund, Busken Bakery and Procter & Gamble. More here >

Crystal Clear Imaging
We have established ourselves as INDUSTRY LEADERS in offering the complete range of signage solutions, print quality, customer service, graphic design services, turnaround time, ability to meet special needs, and pricing. More here >

Green Light New Orleans
Green Light New Orleans (GLNO) is working to reverse global warming by helping New Orleans low- and middle-income families and individuals make the switch from incandescent bulbs to energy-efficient compact fluorescent lights (CFL), one house at a time. Through this free program, community volunteers visit the homes of New Orleans residents to install the CFLs, so bulbs are put to immediate use. More here >

Global Green USA
Soon after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Global Green USA was on the ground in New Orleans, unveiling an aggressive plan to rebuild the city green. Since then, the organization opened its New Orleans office and the Green Building Resource and Design Center, launched the Green Schools Initiative, and broke ground on “The Holy Cross Project”, a sustainable low-income housing community in the Lower Ninth Ward. More here >

Groundwork New Orleans
Groundwork New Orleans seeks to bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic and social well-being. Major programs include: Community Beautification; Enhancement of Major Thoroughfares; Environmental Education and Workforce Development; and Promote and Maintain the History and Heritage of New Orleans. The Groundwork USA Initiative is an interagency agreement between the National Park Service (NPS) Rivers & Trails Program in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfields Program. More here >

Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
Hensel Phelps is consistently ranked among the top general contractors and construction managers in the nation by Engineering News Record. Closely directed by personnel in district offices strategically located throughout the U.S., the firm builds a diverse range of project types, including new construction and renovation of commercial office, airport, distribution and industrial, correctional, public assembly, sports, health care, educational, institutional, residential, mixed use, retail, hospitality, mass transportation, entertainment, microelectronics, research and development, and laboratory facilities. More here >

Holy Cross Neighborhood Association
Established in 1981, the mission of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association is to make its community the best place in the city to live and raise a family. Today, HCNA is a leading community-based organizations in New Orleans whose work marries environmental justice with restoration, recovery and grass roots advancement. More here >

Laredo Printing & Graphics
Laredo Printing is a New Orleans-based Commercial Printer specializing in banners, large format printing and signs.
(504) 897-1224
5229 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Louisiana Bucket Brigade
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LBB) is a 501(c)(3) environmental health and justice organization working with communities that neighbor the state's oil refineries and chemical plants. LBB assists local residents in their fight to reduce pollution and protect public health. LBB also works with community groups to help them take air samples and achieve their goals, be it relocation away from a polluting facility, reduced pollution, or a moratorium on facility expansions. More here >

Louisiana CleanTech Network
The Louisiana CleanTech Network was founded to promote the growth of clean technology businesses in Louisiana and to encourage environmentally responsible economic development. The organization’s mission is to facilitate the formation and growth of new companies, as well as the retooling of existing businesses, to capitalize on the rapidly expanding market for clean technologies, whether in research and development, manufacturing, distribution, sales, or maintenance. More here >

Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation
Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation, founded in 1979 and a 501 C 3 organization, is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage and historic resources of Louisiana. The Louisiana Trusts promotes the preservation of Louisiana’s unique heritage, various cultures, architecture and historic resources through education, advocacy, technical assistance and outreach programs. The Louisiana Trust is the statewide partner of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. More here >

Lower 9th Ward Village
The Village is a community-driven, community-led, non-profit established to empower community members to be self-sufficient and to sustain an equitable quality of life. The Village focuses on connecting the elderly and youth with services and providing care and guidance from the community as a whole. More here >

MercyCorps
Founded in 1979, Mercy Corps has assisted people worldwide with emergency relief services, sustainable economic development and civil society initiatives. Since Hurricane Katrina, its Neighborhood Revitalization Program has formed strategic partnerships with five New Orleans Neighborhood Associations. Mercy Corps has also helped form a coalition of preservation and environmental groups to support deconstruction as an alternative to demolition citywide. More here >

National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust is a non-profit membership organization bringing people together to protect, enhance and enjoy the places that matter to them. By saving the places where great moments from history – and the important moments of everyday life – took place, the National Trust helps revitalize neighborhoods and communities, spark economic development and promote environmental sustainability. With headquarters in Washington, DC, 9 regional and field offices, 29 historic sites, and partner organizations in all 50 states, the National Trust provides leadership, education, advocacy and resources to a national network of people, organizations and local communities. More here >

NENA
The Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA) was established in the aftermath of Katrina to play a lead role in rebuilding New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. NENA provides services and implementing sustainable programs in community outreach, case management, design and construction administration, home and school rebuilding, and economic development. More here >

PGAV
Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets, Inc. (PGAV) is a 120-person professional services firm with offices in St. Louis and Kansas City. For the past 40 years, PGAV has assisted many of America’s most prominent institutional, governmental, corporate, and commercial clients with a wide variety of successful master plans, targeted at objectives both large and small. The firm’s studio environment merges traditional disciplines like master planning, architecture, exhibit design, interiors, landscape architecture, industrial design, and graphics to create powerfully experiential environments unlike any in the world. More here >

Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
Since 1974, the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans (PRC) has worked to help preserve the rich cultural heritage that makes New Orleans unique. PRC’s mission is to promote the preservation, restoration and revitalization of New Orleans’ historic architecture and neighborhoods. Since Katrina, PRC has assisted over 5,000 families in saving their homes and restored 100 homes for the low income elderly. PRC continues to champion efforts to preserve New Orleans in a way that is sensitive to its past and its residents, while demonstrating how preservation can be a vital force in rebuilding our city better, smarter, greener and to scale. More here >

Preservation Trades Network
The Preservation Trades Network (PTN) is a 501(c)3 non-profit membership organization founded to provide education, networking and outreach for the traditional building trades. PTN was established on the principle that conservation of the built environment is fundamentally dependent on the work of skilled people in all of the traditional building trades who preserve, maintain and restore historic buildings, and build architectural heritage for the future. More here >

Sierra Club Gulf Coast
When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, the Sierra Club had an extensive network of volunteers and staff already living in the area. Many of them faced tremendous personal loss, and yet they immediately began helping people to recover and to rebuild safe and healthy communities. In two years' time the Sierra Club has exposed and forced a resolution to the problem of formaldehyde in emergency housing; worked in community partnerships to ensure that hurricane debris is not dumped on low-income communities and people of color; and assisted residents in rebuilding their homes using green building practices. More here >

Trace Collaborative, LLC
Trace Collaborative, LLC is a newly-formed partnership focusing on sustainability within the design and construction industry. Though we do offer green building consulting services, we focus on helping those in the industry organize and implement sustainability within their offices – as they are paying less attention to that aspect than the final green building product. Our services help firms understand and establish core values for their offices that can be communicated to staff and clients, while creating a process and timeline for implementation and in-house education. Trace Collaborative helps organizations live lightly on the land leaving only a TRACE... More here >

Tulane City Center
The Tulane City Center houses the School of Architecture's urban research and outreach programs. Programs of the City Center vary over time, but share a focus on improving cities through fostering global urban research, the development of flexible and innovative urban strategies, and the provision of environmentally and culturally informed principles to guide the design and revitalization of the contemporary metropolis. More here >

University of Texas San Antonio, College of Architecture
The College of Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio is dedicated to educating the next generation of architects, interior designers and builders because it is through the design and construction of the built environment that we can improve the quality of life. The College takes advantage of the unique intellectual, educational and design culture of the city of San Antonio, its region and Mexico: a place where the multiplicity of cultures and memories remain vital and a setting that serves as a laboratory for making a difference on the local and global scales. More here >

World Monuments Fund
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is the foremost private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of endangered architectural and cultural heritage sites around the world. Founded in 1965, WMF has achieved an unmatched record of successful conservation at more than 500 projects in over 90 countries. Included on the 2008 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites are the historic neighborhoods of closely packed shotgun houses and cottages, such as Holy Cross in the Lower Ninth Ward, which serve as the context for the more celebrated French Quarter and Garden District that and lend new Orleans its special sense of place. More here >