Relief Spark - Supporting New Orleans
Relief Spark is a small grass-roots organization made up of volunteers that are committed to providing immediate first-response disaster relief services as well as house gutting and rebuilding services by establishing long-term relationships with families, city leaders and business owners.
Their organization was founded by Marketing Consultant Sidney Ray in Los Angeles, CA on September 1, 2005. She, along with many other volunteers she met on popular message board www.craigslist.org, got together and hosted 3 donation drives in Southern California where they collected an estimated $3 million dollars worth of donated food, water, medical - school - baby and pet supplies, clothing and etc. that was loaded onto a total of 54 donated semi and box trucks and trucked to tent cities, churches, shelters and first-response volunteers all over Louisiana and Mississippi.
For more information, please visit http://www.reliefspark.org