Final Report

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Hands On New Orleans Credit Suisse

• Final Report
• MAY 2008

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The Project Partners
Hands On New Orleans, meets critical community
needs through the effective mobilization of
volunteers in New Orleans. To date, more than
4,200 visiting volunteers have delivered over
316,000 hours of service focused on the recovery
and rebuilding of New Orleans. Credit Suisse,
is a world-leading financial services company,
advising clients in all aspects of finance,
around the world, around the clock. This project
in New Orleans was support by the Credit Suisse
Foundation.
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Day of Service

• Credit Suisse and Hands On New Orleans joined
  together for a three days of service in New
  Orleans to help a homeowner, landscape a park,
  and help a restaurant owner reopen its doors!

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Ms. Evelyns Home

• Ms. Green and her husband the late James Green
  have owned the home at 2236 Baronne St. for over
  thirty years.
• The project at 2236 Baronne St. is a full
  reconstruction of the home belonging to Ms.
  Evelyn Green of New Orleans. The home, built in
  1869, sustained major storm damage, losing its
  roof during Hurricane Katrina and taking weather
  damage in the following months until the roof was
  repaired. Evelyn Green is currently living with
  her daughter in New Orleans. Her son is living
  in a FEMA trailer on the project lot.
• Volunteers completed structural framing on the
  back of the house, and windows installation.

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Photo Highlights
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Cousins Restaurant

Prior to Katrina and Rita, the small business
operated as a restaurant and was owned by the
current owners cousins. Vacant since Katrina
the building took on 3 feet of water, but current
A grand opening was set for 3 weeks prior to
this project. The new restaurant, Cousins Food
and Spirits, will specialize in traditional
Creole dishes. -This is the first business owned
and operated by Mr. Kyle Fleury. -After living
in Atlanta 11 months after the storm, Mr. Kyle
Fleury created a temporary construction company
to get friends and family back into their homes.
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Photo Highlights
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Photo Highlights
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Volunteer Impact

• Volunteers Engaged 20
• Total Volunteer Hours 360
• Supplies Materials 2,500
• Value of volunteer hours 7,023.601
• Total Value of Investment in
• New Orleans 12,023.60
• 1 of hours x 19.51, the National Standard
  Volunteer Monetary Rate,
• http//www.independentsector.org/programs/researc
  h/volunteer_time.html

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