Dear Friend, Yesterday, Linda Jackson’s family gathered for her memorial. Though her neighborhood friends and comrades couldn’t attend, Sarah’s daughters made a sign. Rev. Calhoun brought balloons. And Constance picked bouquets of flowers from her garden which we placed on our windshields. While I was driving down Forstall Street, I kept thinking about how Linda presided over a meeting of our Board the night before she went in for knee surgery. Doesn’t that just say everythin

Linda Jackson - In Memoriam Dear Friend: I am so sad to let you know today that we have lost our founder and our guiding light, Linda Jackson. It wasn’t COVID-19. She went into the hospital for knee surgery, which went fine. She was moved to the rehab floor and while she was there, more than a week after surgery, she had a heart attack and didn’t recover. It's almost incomprehensible. She was such a fighter. How could she just die like that? And how will we get along without

Lower 9th Ward Community When Mr. and Mrs. Morrell moved to the Lower 9th Ward in the 1950's with their 3 young children, they became active members in their church and their neighborhood. Their daughters take after them. In their two years as Outreach Specialists for the L9WHA, Cynthia and Galethea have connected with hundreds of families, created community working groups to address blight and overgrown lots, and stepped up to serve as president and vice-president of the Nei

Due to the changing nature of the Covid19 Pandemic, the organizers of GiveNOLA (www.givenola.org/L9WHA) have decided to move this incredible day to June 2nd. But you don't have to wait until June 2 - you can actually make your GiveNOLA gift today!! Our Coronavirus Project Each GiveNOLA 2020 donation will go toward our Coronavirus Project. The mission of the project is to make sure that L9W residents receive all the benefits they're entitled to - like stimulus checks, unemploy