New Orleans's Youth Movement

Nonprofit leaders work to persuade young professionals who arrived after Katrina to call city home

Not long after Jonathan Graboyes graduated from college last year, he headed to New Orleans in search of nonprofit work.

"I sort of made a leap of faith in the city," says Mr. Graboyes, now 23. "I drove down in my 1996 Subaru Outback from Philadelphia with no house to go to and no job. I knew that's where I wanted to be."

While still in college, he had made several trips to

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