partners

“We are very happy to have evacuteer.org to recruit and coordinate our evacuteers,” Lt. Col. Jerry Sneed, director of the City of New Orleans Office of Emergency Preparedness says. “Evacuteer.org enhances what we do and ensures evacuteers are recognized as integral in evacuating New Orleans safely.”

A successful CAEP can’t be done without commitments from evacuteer.org partner groups. Our evacuteer groups already in place for the 2009 storm season are listed below, but we are always looking for more. If you are interested in becoming an evacuteer group or an individual evacuteer, join us here.

American Red Cross of Southeastern Louisiana

AmeriCorps NCCC

Broadmoor Improvement Association

Catholic Charities of New Orleans

Common Ground

Crisis Emergency Response Team

City Year Louisiana

HandsOn New Orleans

Lowernine.org

Medical Reserve Corps

NENA

Phoenix of New Orleans

Puentes New Orleans

Rebuilding Together New Orleans

Trinity Christian Community

Tulane University Center for Public Service

evacuteers to date (8/3/09)

evacuteer.org will update this section of the website to keep everyone informed on our remaining need for evacuteers (which is still quite large!) Of our partner organizations, the following commitments have been secured:

City Year Louisiana:  60 evacuteers
Trinity Christian Community:    37 evacuteers
Rebuilding Together New Orleans:    30 evacuteers
Puentes New Orleans:    20 evacuteers
Tulane University AmeriCorps Vistas:    20 evacuteers
Phoenix of New Orleans:    13 evacuteers
Hands On New Orleans:    10 evacuteers
Common Ground/Lowernine.org/NENA:  20 evacuteers
Broadmoor Improvement Association:    13 evacuteers
Unaffiliated:    101 evacuteers
Total: 324 Evacuteers

Thanks to all of the independent evacuteers that have been signing up on the website…tell your friends to join you!

In order to serve at our three location types and have the manpower to relieve our evacuteers at appropriate intervals for their shifts, we estimate that we will need approximately 200 evacuteers at Union Passenger Terminal, 170 evacuteers distributed among the 17 pick-up points throughout the city, and 30 evacuteers available at the 311 Call Center.