Kennedy School Thoughts on New Orleans
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,...
View ArticleCommunity Mapping Project
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...
View ArticleBuilding the Plane as You Fly It: Community Development Systems in New Orleans
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...
View ArticleBroadmoor's LaToya Cantrell featured in Delta-Sky Magazine
December 31, 2007LaToya Cantrell, president of the Broadmoor Improvement Association, is featured in the January 2008 issue of Delta Sky Magazine.
View ArticlePlans for Andrew H. Wilson Elementary School Released
January 21, 2008Architects 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...
View ArticleBroadmoor Project Announces 2008 Summer Internships
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.
View ArticleContinued Leadership Development in New Orleans
April 4, 2008The Broadmoor Project partners with the HKS Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative to bring "Building Effective Partnerships: Increasing community-level resources and impact through...
View ArticleWith Private Dollars at Stake, Delays Hurt
June 26, 2008In 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...
View ArticleA Tax Credit for Volunteerism
July 14, 2008Hurricane 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...
View ArticleNew Orleans still needs help
New Orleans could be wiped out tomorrow if another storm hit it, according to former Times-Picayune metro editor Jed Horne.
View ArticleCase Study of Broadmoor's Community Based Recovery
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...
View ArticleBroadmoor Success in New Orleans Offers Lessons for Afghanistan
"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...
View ArticleBelfer Center Newsletter Winter 2010-11
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...
View ArticleA Katrina 5th Anniversary Success Story: Broadmoor
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...
View Article"We Shall Not Be Moved" Spotlights New Orleans' Rebuilding Efforts
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...
View ArticleAfter Katrina, residents rolled up sleeves
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.
View ArticleFrom New Orleans to Chile: Broadmoor Model Aids Community Recovery
"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....
View ArticleGenesis of Recupera Chile
May 14, 2013Following 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...
View ArticleHarvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative Welcomes Dr. Robert M. Danin...
The Middle East Initiative (MEI) at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs announced today that Dr. Robert M. Danin, an accomplished diplomat with over 20 years of...
View ArticleBroadmoor Project, New Orleans: Looking Back and Ahead
The Broadmoor Project: New Orleans Recovery was an effort initiated in 2006 to work with residents of New Orleans' hard-hit Broadmoor neighborhood in designing and implementing a strategy for...
View ArticlePreparing for the Next Disaster
March 3, 2016On January 22, 2016, academics and practitioners from across the world traveled to Harvard University for a conference on disaster recovery. Entitled “Accelerating Disaster Recovery:...
View ArticleOut of Katrina’s Devastation: A Model for Disaster Recovery
In January, community leaders and officials from around the world gathered at Harvard to share experiences and best practices in “Accelerating Disaster Recovery: Strategies, Tensions, and Obstacles.”...
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