Celebrating Teamwork

Terri Dreyer said she is amazed and heartened by the passion and fierce sense of neighborhood ownership that New Orleanians have displayed since Hurricane Katrina devastated most of the city. Dreyer, an architect, is volunteering with the nonprofit group Cityworks, which is trying to catalog and map the efforts of individual neighborhood associations.

Her group was part of a convention of like-minded organizations Saturday at City Park's Botanical Garden. Organizers said the "Festival of Neighborhoods" was a first: a collaboration of 100 neighborhood associations and governmental and nonprofit groups aimed at helping those rebuilding from Katrina.

from the Times Picayune