August 7, 2010
5 Years After the Hurricanes, Gulf Coast Grapples With Recovery
LaTosha Brown is the executive director of the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health.
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LaTosha Brown is the executive director of the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health.
As residents of the Gulf Coast plunge into another recovery, this time from the oil spill that has devastated the region’s economy and natural resources, they can count on help from a corps of nonprofit leaders and volunteers that has grown much bigger and stronger in the five years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed them with the challenge of a century.
More than $3-billion in philanthropic dollars flowed to the region in the year after the New Orleans levees broke, and
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