Building a Global Green Community for New OrleanS
Global Green USA is in 2023 working to rebuild and empower the community of the Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans. The Global Green Community project is a first of its kind - for Environmental Justice and sustainable housing. The project in New Orleans will serve as a pilot for underserved communities in need in cities all over in the United States.
YOUR HELP IS CRUCIAL
Please join us in a campaign to rebuild the New Orleans community of the Lower Ninth Ward. This initiative is to bring environmental justice for 109 families who, like many underserved communities, are disproportionally affected by environmental catastrophes and on the forefront of climate change.
The GoFundMe campaign aims to raise $5 million in the first phase of the budget. The fundraising goal for the GoFundMe campaign for the Global Green Community in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans is set at $5 million. When this GoFundMe campaign has started, we have already raised $382,000. Additional funding for this project is targeted by way of fundraising events and partnerships. No matter the size, great or small, your generous donation sent to the GoFundMe campaign can help improve the quality of life for many.
A CALL OF ACTION FOR THE LOWER NINTH WARD
Fundraising for the 2023 Global Green Community project is targeted to rebuild and revitalize the underserved community of the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, and to empower its residents. The determination is to bring forth Environmental Justice – to cultivate a safe and healthy community for its people.
The target for the Global Green Community is to build and/or rebuild homes with sustainable materials, green building practices, and renewable energy, aligned to the goals of Net Zero (meaning to reduce greenhouse gas emissions). The funding will go to upgrading the community with the expected impact of 100 + LEED certified homes, built with energy-efficient and green-friendly design practices.
The guidelines for the housing construction are LEED, with cutting edge sustainable materials and renewable energy-powered. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to set a benchmark for design, construction, maintenance, and operation of high-performance green buildings and homes, used world-wide. Global Green USA worked together with the USGBC to help develop this framework for sustainable building guidelines, recognized and used globally for 25 years.
The people are the heart and soul of the community
A community is made up of the heart and soul of its people. The Global Green Community project aspires to empower its residents by bringing people together in community activities for education, individual prosperity, and the greater planetary good.
The aim is to improve food security and community health, by way of access to local and affordable healthy organic food sources.
This can be done by empowering local fresh food market retailers that operate within the community, and as well as providing education on home grown food security. The project targets direct job creation (e.g., green home construction projects) and indirect job creation (e.g., local nonprofits can hire staff) within the community.
At the heart of the project is the Global Green Community Center, built in 2008 in the Holy Cross neighborhood of the Ninth Ward. It has solar power and is LEED-certified (with green building techniques and storm readiness). At its center is people.
The center is equipped to hold educational workshops, on the themes of: food security, greening and social sustainability, community resilience- disaster preparedness, and as well as programs on environmental social justice – meaning to bring forth diversity, equity, and inclusion for civic involvement.
The community building can also house a state-of-the-art Recycling Center for the neighborhoods. The project envisions creating open green parks and recreational spaces.
The Global Green Community in the Lower Ninth Ward will serve as a pilot for communities in cities all over in the United States.
To ensure accountability Global Green works directly with independent partners to measure the performance of the project, where the results will be audited and reported.
LaToya Cantrell
Mayor of New Orleans
"On behalf of the City of New Orleans we envision the Global Green Community as a long-term strategy in the steps forward towards a sustainable future, not only for the residents of the Lower 9th Ward but a model for cities across the US. This project can act to empower people, social environmental justice, and climate adaption."
GLOBAL GREEN Initiatives Post Hurricane Katrina
NEW ORLEANS IMPACT TO-DATE
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$3.2M
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16+ Years
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75%
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THE INSPIRATIONAL PERSONS SERIES
CREATED FOR THE LOWER 9TH WARD
The Inspirational Persons Art series, designed by Toby Jorgensen, was created to honor some of the great people who to this day continue to inspire humanity. In gratitude for the generous support to the GoFundMe campaign for the Global Green Community in the Lower Ninth Ward - every 3 weeks we will randomly give away a print or t-shirt from the Inspirational Persons series to one of the donors. No matter the amount of your donation, you will be entitled to participate in the drawing for the winner of that 3-week period..
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ARETHA FRANKLIN
ButtonAretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Referred to as the "Queen of Soul". From her time growing up in the home of a prominent African-American preacher to the end of her life, Franklin was immersed and involved in the struggle for civil rights and women's rights.
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RUBY BRIDGES
ButtonRuby Bridges is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
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Inspirational Quotes
“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now”
– Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Your support can make a difference
Your contribution, no matter how small or large, is appreciated. Fundraising for this campaign goes to help improve the quality of life for others and making the Global Green Community possible.
Supportive organizations and institutions
(310) 581-2700
campaignteam@globalgreencommunity.org
520 Broadway #200 Santa Monica, CA 90401
www.globalgreen.org