Katrina Site Focuses on Storm's Aftermath

More than two years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, a grant maker is using the Web to call attention to the larger issues of racism, poverty, and government neglect brought to light by the storms.

In 2006 the Open Society Institute, in New York, awarded 31 grants totaling $950,000 to journalists, photographers, filmmakers, and youth media groups to document the long-term effects of the storm and residents' efforts to recover. Now, the grant maker has

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