By Hildy Gottlieb

Editor's note: This is an abridged version of the Making Change podcast. Listen to the full version here.

In the face of devastation, people in New Orleans banded together after Hurricane Katrina to protect and strengthen their communities.

Now the challenge is to keep up the momentum, says Albert Ruesga, chief executive of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, who offers advice in the latest episode of Making Change about how to stimulate community action long after catastrophe strikes—or even without one.

Hildy Gottlieb is the co-founder of Creating the Future and author of The Pollyanna Principles: Reinventing "Nonprofit Organizations" to Create the Future of Our World. In this podcast, Making Change, she interviews leaders to discuss how those who are working for the greater good can effect more social change. New episodes of Making Change appear on the second Thursday of every month.