New Orleans

List of Placement Organizations

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) works on campaigns for better housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, and job conditions. New Orleans ACORN fosters civic engagement by building neighborhood groups and providing training opportunities for local leaders from within low-to-moderate income communities.
  AVODAH provides a Community Outreach Associate to ACORN.

• Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) promotes fair competition throughout the housing marketplace, including rental, sales, lending and insurance. GNOFHAC is dedicated to fighting housing discrimination not only because it is illegal but also because it is a divisive force that perpetuates poverty, segregation, ignorance, fear, and hatred.
  AVODAH provides a Fair Housing Assistant to GNOFHAC.
  
• Innocence Project (IPNO) and Resurrection After Exoneration (RAE) promote and sustain a network of support among the formerly incarcerated, reconnect them to the community and help provide access to educational opportunities and counseling.
  AVODAH provides an Exoneree Advocate to IPNO/RAE.
  
• Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, a project of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association, is a community-based center working to stimulate sustainable recovery, rebuilding and civic engagement in the Holy Cross and Lower 9th war neighborhoods of New Orleans.
  AVODAH provides a Sustainable Development Campaign Coordinator to Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development.
  
• New Orleans Outreach directly enriches children's education, builds the capacity of schools to educate children more effectively, and increases support for public education.
  AVODAH provides a School-Based Volunteer Supervisor to New Orleans Outreach.
• New Orleans Women's Shelter is a facility for women and children in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans that focuses on helping women stabilize, obtain proper medical treatment and other locally available social services, enroll children into school and day care, register for job training classes, secure employment, locate affordable permanent housing and move on to successful independent living.
  AVODAH provides a Shelter Assistant to New Orleans Women's Shelter.
• Orleans Public Defenders provides legal services to indigent defendants and to client-centered representation that respects the humanity and dignity of those accused of crimes.
  AVODAH provides a Client Welfare Specialist to Orleans Public Defenders.
• Rebuilding Together New Orleans (RTNO) allows low-income families in communities across the country to live in warmth, safety, and dignity by restoring homes at no cost to the homeowner.
  AVODAH provides an Intake Assistant to RTNO.
• Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House works to deliver highly accessible health services within the context of a neighborhood life center, develop innovative and replicable models of care applicable to the health needs of underserved populations, and collaborate with educational institutions and non-profit partners to provide health professional training opportunities.
  AVODAH provides a Community Coordinator to Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House.