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  1. Create Postcards of Hope for Jena
  2. PfK Signs the Petition to Bring Candidates to NOLA
  3. Upgrade New Orleans with Postcards from Katrina
  4. Create Postcards of Hope for Katrina Survivors
  5. Planting Hope in Our Communities from the Gulf to Blacksburg, VA
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Create Postcards of Hope for Jena


On September 20th, Postcards from Katrina expresses hope for children and families impacted by fierce climate in Jena, LA. The mobilization of students today reflects the energy in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the U.S. communities will continue to need the energy and skillset of young people to lead the change that the communities have desparately needed.


On this day students around the country are galvanized for change. For example, Howard University students have taken a bus to Jena to participate in activities with organizations such as National Black Law Student Association and Color of Change.


In Washington, DC, Postcards from Katrina creator, Tambra Stevenson, will celebrate her birthday with supporters by making postcards of hope for Jena and send them to government and media officials in Louisiana. Sponsored by Creative Cause, the event will be held at Duke's City Restaurant and Lounge off 12th and U Street, NW Washington, DC at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today. So join the cause and create a postcard of hope while meeting other socially conscious young professionals and enjoy drink specials.


Postcards from Katrina TM, a project of Creative Cause, is a community arts and health prevention project to build promote arts and writing for healing after crisis.


PfK Signs the Petition to Bring Candidates to NOLA

Join Postcards from Katrina and Friends of New Orleans in signing the petition to bring the Presidential Debate to New Orleans. Visit www.friendsofneworleans.org

WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN. In memory of the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and in support of our local partner, Women of the Storm, Friends of New Orleans is launching an online letter campaign to Congress and Governors across the United States. We ask you to join us in urging all of them to encourage the Commission on Presidential Debates to select New Orleans to host one of the final three Presidential debates of 2008.

Postcards from Katrina TM, a project of Creative Cause, is a community arts and health prevention project to build promote arts and writing for healing after crisis.


Upgrade New Orleans with Postcards from Katrina


On September 1, 2007, tell your friends to attend the Upgrade New Orleans Conference with keynote speaker, Jeff Johnson of BET. Also that day, Postcards from Katrina, a Creative Cause project, will host a healing arts workshop at the conference at Xavier University in New Orleans.

At the workshop, participants will make postcards of hope and speak about life after Katrina and how art helps to express where they are and want to be for a new New Orleans. Upgrade New Orleans Initiative is a unique, youth-led civic engagement project started by New Orleans native Yasmin Gabriel,, who is Howard Law student and producer of "Picking Up the Pieces: College Life After Katrina," which features Postcards from Katrina.

Postcards from Katrina, Creative Cause, Next Wave of Change Coalition and NOLA YURP supports Upgrade New Orleans and hope you will do the same and be that next wave of change. On Sunday, Sept. 2 at 6pm, come out to the first-ever NOLA Facebook Meet Up at Mimi's in the Marigny at 2601 Royal at Franklin in New Orleans. We have invited Percy Marchand and State Representative Juan LaFonta to share remarks.

Also come and creative postcards of hope for the 2010 x 2010 goal of Postcards from Katrina.You have a chance to win an official Plant Hope t-shirt as well. Because we need more hope for the city to have a future.

SAVE THE DATE: SEPTEMBER 20

At Duke's City Restaurant and Lounge (upper floor) in Washington, DC, Creative Cause will kick off it's first Fall event at 630pm, 'Causmos and Convos,' an opportunity for the communications and creative community and friends to come together, meet and discuss social issues and how to use their creativity to create awareness and action.

On that day, many people will be headed to Jena, LA to fight for justice about the unfair treatment of youth in the city. For those unable to travel to Jena, the founder of Creative Cause, Tambra Stevenson, will celebrate her birthday with a purpose: Justice in Jena.

So if you have a spoken word, artwork, poetry, and any other artistic form to express bring it to the event and share your creativity for the cause. So bring a friend and join CC's community at http://www.creativecause.collectivex.com/. If you are a nonprofit that wish to team up with Creative Cause to promote your cause at a future event, email info@creativecause.org.

And let's use our creativity for good!
Postcards from Katrina TM, a project of Creative Cause, is a community arts and health prevention project to build promote arts and writing for healing after crisis.


Create Postcards of Hope for Katrina Survivors

Planting Hope in the Hearts and Minds of Hurricane Katrina Survivors


Postcards from Katrina encourages you to come to GWU's Kogan Plaza and send a message of hope to those impacted by Hurricane Katrina by creating Sketches of Inspiration for the PfK 2010 x 2010 initiative, a national initiative to generate 2010 postcards filled with poems and sketches for survivors by the year 2010, which is the fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to create an America of hope and healing.

Bring your friends and family to sketch a message of hope for this outreach project, which uses art as a way to express our feelings about all that has happened and to let all those impacted by the storm know that they have not been forgotten.


In partnership with the George Washington University's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Influence PR, Creative Cause creates campaigns that make a social impact and want you to be a part of the next wave. Plant Hope t-shirts will be available along with raffle prizes. Postcards from Katrina and Plant Hope are educational initiatives of Creative Cause.


Sunday, April 29, 2007

2:00pm - 4:00pm

George Washington University/Kogan Plaza

H Street NW between 21st and 22nd Streets

Washington, DC

Metro: Foggy Bottom (orange/blue)

On Facebook? Spread the word: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2322776355&ref=mf
For more information, email info@postcardsfromkatrina.com
Postcards from Katrina TM, a project of Creative Cause, is a community arts and health prevention project to build promote arts and writing for healing after crisis.


Planting Hope in Our Communities from the Gulf to Blacksburg, VA

We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech ... - Nikki Giovanni, VA Tech University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist


Everyone at some point in their lives will experience a mini-Katrina. I know since I lost my father on Psalm Sunday unexpectedly. The question is what do you do after the storm? This week that raging storm hit the quaint collegial community of Blacksburg, VA – home to Virginia Tech. Our focus should be on healing, supporting and reflecting how do we plant seeds of hope to prevent violence. The storm was building overtime within the young man who committed this violent act and expanded into other peoples worlds.


Following Hurricane Katrina, the Plant Hope project was created with the focus on how do we help and give hope to other people everyday such as the quiet person. With the recent passing of my father, a retired Corporal of the Oklahoma City Fire Department for 26 years and was commended for his volunteerism while off-duty during the Oklahoma City Bombing, I rededicated the project in his honor.


So this Saturday, April 21st, we kick off the Plant Hope initiative at McKinley Tech High School in Washington, DC for National and Global Service Day, which youth and adults to come plant hope in the community and the Gulf. That day youth will create postcards and poetry of hope for VA Tech and the Gulf showing the value of art for healing and public service.


Also the community can join in the are encouraged to plant hope on April 29th at the Kogan Plaza on the campus of George Washington University from 2-4pm with Creative Cause, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Chapter of GWU, Influence PR (Public Relations Student Society of America Chapter). The community will have a chance to make postcards of hope for VA Tech and the Gulf.

In a society that’s always on the go, sometimes we need to step back and take time to plant hope from what we say to people in the morning. Give a smile, a hug, or a thank you will do to your neighbor, child, parent, teacher or co-worker. That’s on an individual level. An on a societal /policy/media level, we can plant hope by strengthening youth programs in our communities giving youth creative outlets and mentorship to give them a sense of purpose.

Also we plant hope with images in ad campaigns and media with positive personal stories to inform and inspire all people to feel like they can make a difference in the world and starting within their life. We each can do our part in building a better community together and that involves planting hope. First we all should start with ourselves because we cannot give what we do not have. And this young man did not see hope. And when there is no hope there is no future.
Why do I know you need to plant hope? Because I had no feeling of a future as a child while growing up in Oklahoma City living through the OKC bombing and formerly worked on youth trauma programs in mental health; and now my future is full of hope because my community and I planted hope in me.

–Tambra Stevenson, Creator of Postcards from Katrina, a program of Creative Cause

Let me know how you planted hope today! Email me at tambra at planthope dot org.

Postcards from Katrina TM, a project of Creative Cause, is a community arts and health prevention project to build promote arts and writing for healing after crisis.


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