Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Broadmoor Project: New Orleans http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 01:28:10 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 01:28:10 -0500 BCSIA en-us webmaster@belfercenter.org webmaster@belfercenter.org Copyright 2013 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Kennedy School of Government - Harvard Univeristy <![CDATA[Genesis of Recupera Chile]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/23084/genesis_of_recupera_chile.html Tue, 14 May 2013 10:23:52 -0500

Following Hurricane Katrina, the Belfer Center's Broadmoor Project was developed by then Belfer Center Senior Fellow Doug Ahlers to work with the Broadmoor neighborhood to rebuild the devastated community. Highly successful, Broadmoor is now a model of recovery, almost 90 percent rebuilt, with a new charter school, library, and community center. (See Broadmoor Project.)

With Ahlers vision and leadership, the Broadmoor Project has also helped other disaster-struck communities. Here, Ahlers describes how the Broadmoor model is currently assisting in the recovery of three Chilean communities nearly destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami of 2010. The genesis of the Recupera Chile initiative is described below.

]]> Doug Ahlers http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/23084/genesis_of_recupera_chile.html <![CDATA[From New Orleans to Chile: Broadmoor Model Aids Community Recovery]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/23060/from_new_orleans_to_chile.html Tue, 14 May 2013 07:04:56 -0500 "When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, then-Belfer Center Senior Fellow Doug Ahlers, a former resident of New Orleans, immediately realized that he and the Kennedy School could help. The result was the Belfer Center’s Broadmoor Project, a collaboration with the Broadmoor neighborhood....Broadmoor is now a model of recovery, almost 90 percent rebuilt, with a new charter school, library, and community center....With Ahlers vision and leadership, the Broadmoor Project has also helped other disaster-struck communities. Below, Ahlers describes how the Broadmoor model is currently assisting in the recovery of three Chilean communities nearly destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami of 2010."

]]> Doug Ahlers http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/23060/from_new_orleans_to_chile.html <![CDATA[After Katrina, residents rolled up sleeves]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/22751/after_katrina_residents_rolled_up_sleeves.html Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:38:50 -0600 Tom Wooten ’08, author of "We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina," discussed his book during a Wintersession lecture in Sever Hall.

]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/22751/after_katrina_residents_rolled_up_sleeves.html <![CDATA["We Shall Not Be Moved" Spotlights New Orleans' Rebuilding Efforts]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/22237/we_shall_not_be_moved_spotlights_new_orleans_rebuilding_efforts.html Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:54:14 -0500 We Shall Not Be Moved, released in August 2012, is an account of how five New Orleans neighborhoods rebuilt in the years following Hurricane Katrina. Focusing on recovery efforts in the hard-hit neighborhoods of Broadmoor, Hollygrove, Lakeview, the Lower Ninth Ward, and Village de l'Est, author Tom Wooten, a research fellow with the Belfer Center's Broadmoor Project, tells the story of this rebirth through the eyes, voices, and experiences of residents who refused to give up in the wake of one of the country’s worst disasters.

]]> Tom Wooten http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/22237/we_shall_not_be_moved_spotlights_new_orleans_rebuilding_efforts.html <![CDATA[A Katrina 5th Anniversary Success Story: Broadmoor]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/20487/katrina_5th_anniversary_success_story.html Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:00:30 -0600 Five years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, one stand-out recovery success story is the neighborhood of Broadmoor and its unique collaboration with Harvard Kennedy School through the Belfer Center's Broadmoor Project.

]]> Sharon Wilke http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/20487/katrina_5th_anniversary_success_story.html <![CDATA[Belfer Center Newsletter Winter 2010-11]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/20556/belfer_center_newsletter_winter_201011.html Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:51:06 -0600 The Winter 2010/11 issue of the Belfer Center newsletter features recent and upcoming activities, research, and analysis by members of the Center community on critical global issues. This issue highlights a major Belfer Center conference on technology and governance, the Center's involvement in the nuclear threat documentary Countdown to Zero, and a celebration of Belfer Center founder Paul Doty.

 

]]> Sharon Wilke http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/20556/belfer_center_newsletter_winter_201011.html <![CDATA[Broadmoor Success in New Orleans Offers Lessons for Afghanistan]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/19967/broadmoor_success_in_new_orleans_offers_lessons_for_afghanistan.html Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:09:56 -0600 "When the Belfer Center's Broadmoor Project launched in October 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans' Broadmoor neighborhood, it was difficult to imagine how much progress would be possible. But the project's partnership between Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students and the Broadmoor community has delivered impressive results and invaluable lessons to the neighborhood and beyond."

]]> Beth Maclin http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/19967/broadmoor_success_in_new_orleans_offers_lessons_for_afghanistan.html <![CDATA[Case Study of Broadmoor's Community Based Recovery]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18937/case_study_of_broadmoors_community_based_recovery.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:45:06 -0500 The Broadmoor Project at the Belfer Center sponsored the development of a three-part teaching case on the recovery planning effort of the Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans. Taken together, the cases provide a snapshot of a disaster-stricken community organizing itself and building the capacity to engineer and manage its own recovery.

]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18937/case_study_of_broadmoors_community_based_recovery.html <![CDATA[New Orleans still needs help]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18551/new_orleans_still_needs_help.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:52:00 -0500 New Orleans could be wiped out tomorrow if another storm hit it, according to former Times-Picayune metro editor Jed Horne.

]]> Beth Maclin http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18551/new_orleans_still_needs_help.html <![CDATA[A Tax Credit for Volunteerism]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18428/tax_credit_for_volunteerism.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:06:46 -0500

Hurricane Katrina devastated our region in 2005. With the help of volunteers, we have been rebuilding. If oil prices rise high enough to make travel unaffordable for volunteers, our resurrection will falter.

]]> LaToya Cantrell http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18428/tax_credit_for_volunteerism.html <![CDATA[With Private Dollars at Stake, Delays Hurt]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18385/with_private_dollars_at_stake_delays_hurt.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:17:45 -0500

In a public hearing last week, the New Orleans City Council tangled with the Office of Recovery and Development and Administration over a state tax credit program to promote cultural activities. Some council members felt their districts were being ignored. The mood turned contentious. As a result of this debate, approval of funding for the city's 17-zone recovery plan was put off -- at Dr. Ed Blakely's request -- for at least another week.

]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18385/with_private_dollars_at_stake_delays_hurt.html <![CDATA[Continued Leadership Development in New Orleans]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18191/continued_leadership_development_in_new_orleans.html Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:46:45 -0500

The Broadmoor Project partners with the HKS Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative to bring "Building Effective Partnerships: Increasing community-level resources and impact through cross-sector alliances."

]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18191/continued_leadership_development_in_new_orleans.html <![CDATA[Broadmoor Project Announces 2008 Summer Internships]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18107/broadmoor_project_announces_2008_summer_internships.html Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:36:49 -0600 The HKS-Broadmoor Project for Community Engagement in New Orleans is pleased to announce 3 paid summer internships in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans.

]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18107/broadmoor_project_announces_2008_summer_internships.html <![CDATA[Plans for Andrew H. Wilson Elementary School Released]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18016/plans_for_andrew_h_wilson_elementary_school_released.html Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:27:52 -0600

Architects presented the plans below to Broadmoor residents for the construction of the rebuilt Andrew H. Wilson Elementary School. Construction will begin this spring and continue in time for a September 2009 opening.

]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18016/plans_for_andrew_h_wilson_elementary_school_released.html <![CDATA[Broadmoor's LaToya Cantrell featured in Delta-Sky Magazine]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/17976/broadmoors_latoya_cantrell_featured_in_deltasky_magazine.html Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:43:01 -0600

LaToya Cantrell, president of the Broadmoor Improvement Association, is featured in the January 2008 issue of Delta Sky Magazine.

]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/17976/broadmoors_latoya_cantrell_featured_in_deltasky_magazine.html <![CDATA[Building the Plane as You Fly It: Community Development Systems in New Orleans]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18739/building_the_plane_as_you_fly_it.html Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:48:16 -0500 To the extent it ever existed, the network of individuals and organizations concerned with community development in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina was ineffective and inadequately supported.  The complexity of economic and social challenges facing the city overwhelmed its capacity to respond. These challenges included a declining population, stagnant economy, highly concentrated poverty, and one of the country’s highest rates of violent crime. The difficulty in establishing an effective system of community development organizations was exacerbated by the city’s changing economic structure towards a dependence on low-wage service sector employment.

]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/18739/building_the_plane_as_you_fly_it.html <![CDATA[Community Mapping Project]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/17322/community_mapping_project.html Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0500 In June and July of 2006 the Broadmoor community took on a mapping and surveying project. Bard College compiled information collected by Harvard University and Bard College students with the help from PlanReady, Inc. This is a step-by-step guidebook on community-wide surveying and mapping projects for other neighborhood associations and CDCs.

]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/17322/community_mapping_project.html <![CDATA[Kennedy School Thoughts on New Orleans]]> http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/19286/kennedy_school_thoughts_on_new_orleans.html Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:17:56 -0500 On March 25, 18 Kennedy School students traveled to New Orleans to assist residents of the devastated New Orleans neighborhood of Broadmoor in designing a strategy for neighborhood recovery. Broadmoor, an economically and racially diverse neighborhood in the heart of New Orleans, experienced extensive flooding as a result of the failed levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Five residents of this neighborhood of 7,000 were killed; 3500 have not yet returned. Those who have returned are taking unprecedented steps to demonstrate the vitality of their neighborhood. Working with resident committees set up by the Broadmoor Improvement Association, the Kennedy School students spent a week this spring applying their skills in organization, civic engagement, urban planning, and economic development to help the residents develop a strategic plan in response to the city's request for neighborhood viability reports. The plan will serve as a model for other neighborhoods searching for the path forward. The Kennedy School/Broadmoor initiative was developed by Doug Ahlers, a fellow at the Belfer Center and a member of the Economic Development Committee for the "Bring New Orleans Back" Commission. "It is clear that the arrival of the Kennedy School and other Harvard students helped reenergize the residents," Ahlers said. "For the students, this has been the opportunity to use their skills to help in a way that will make a very real and lasting difference to thousands of people."

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