Hands on New Orleans

Volunteer engagement: Hands on recruits and manages volunteer teams at its community service project sites. Sites positively impact low income residents with improvements to public schools (education), green infrastructure (environment), and neighborhood development (recreation, urban gardens). The Hands at work program engages visiting and local corporate, university, highschool, and faith-based volunteers.

Community revitalization: Hands on New Orleans functions as a volunteer center to engage local residents in community service and connects volunteers with causes they care about. Hands on builds the capacity of smaller nonprofit organizations by providing free training on volunteer and project management best practices, offering free use of its volunteer recruitment software, and serves as a fiscal agent to disburse public grant funds.

Disaster management: Hands on New Orleans and its volunteers educate and inform the public on emergency preparedness, provides disaster response services in the form donation management and public distribution of relief supplies and volunteer management for clean up after natural disasters, and funds clients unmet long term recovery needs such as roofs, home repairs, and furniture.

Covid-19: Hands on New Orleans builds the capacity of government, foundations, corporations, and nonprofit partners by building strong coalitions that provide holistic community relief efforts, including food security programs, needs assessments, and emerging volunteer support efforts like mass vaccination.