Word: broadmoor
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...reform movement is allowing neighborhoods to take matters into their own hands and run their own schools. Broadmoor, where I grew up and my brother still lives, is a mixed neighborhood, racially and economically, right in the heart of New Orleans. It has long had an active biracial improvement association, which the storm kicked up a couple of notches. It formed a partnership with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, which has sent more than 90 students and faculty to help plan and rebuild, and aid from the philanthropist Walter Shorenstein and Bill Clinton's foundation soon followed. Thus fortified...
...rebuild homes and find shelter for many others. His congregation took out a million-dollar mortgage to turn the church and several surrounding properties into what they call Resurrection House, which includes a dormitory for volunteers who do construction work or reach out to the needy in the adjoining Broadmoor neighborhood...
...What’s really quite amazing is that compared to the other neighborhoods, Broadmoor is showing tremendous signs of actual, physical, on-the-ground progress in terms of its recovery, and that can be measured with a walk or a drive down the street, those sounds of hammers and buzzsaws, the number of people moving back in,” he said...
...Broadmoor Project will also provide seven or eight residents of the neighborhood with the chance to come to Cambridge and participate in executive training programs this summer...
...this year, the Broadmoor Project has received a grant of $500,000 from the Shell Exploration & Production Company, Lee and Ahlers said...