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...Kennedy School of Government (KSG) announced last week that it will send students from three Harvard schools to the Broadmoor neighborhood next Sunday to continue a project that started a year...
...sent 23 students to Broadmoor last spring, and another six over the summer of 2006. While the previous volunteers concentrated on helping to organize the reconstruction of homes and schools, the focus of the coming trip will be gathering data to measure the effectiveness of the neighborhood’s redevelopment efforts...
Doug Ahlers, a fellow at the KSG’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a former resident of New Orleans, began the Broadmoor Project last year when he was looking for one neighborhood in which to focus Harvard volunteer work and resources...
...Broadmoor was chosen out of the 49 New Orleans neighborhoods that were flooded by Katrina because its demographics most closely resembled those of New Orleans as a whole, he said...
Ahlers added that, in his experience, focusing aid on just one community had proven to be a more effective approach than more centralized methods of rebuilding—and this has been borne out in Broadmoor...