The team of Relief Spark would like to acknowledge the following people and companies for their generous donations, time and support:

SPONSORS
Rio Mar Seafood - meals to volunteers
La Boca - meals to volunteers

NEW ORLEANS NON-PROFIT COLLABORATION NETWORK
small to medium size grass root non-profits working together to help rebuild New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish
ReliefNOW Network
Common Ground Collective - Lower 9 Blue House
Project H.O.P.E.
St. Bernard Community Center
ARNO (Animal Rescue New Orleans)
Hands on New Orleans
Emergency Communities
City Park New Orleans
ARTS Council of New Orleans
OnSite Relief

PRESS
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Thank you to every volunteer that contacted their local newspaper that resulted in a news article about Relief Spark and its volunteer program!

CONSULTANTS/ADVISORS/LEGAL
Jeff Card, Exec. Dir. of Relief NOW Network

NEW ORLEANS EXECUTIVE TEAM
Sidney Ray - Founder/Executive Director

ALTERNATIVE WINTER BREAK VOLUNTEERS
Wheaton College - Jan. 6-13, 2008 (35)
Bryant University - Jan. 6-13, 2008 (14)

AALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK VOLUNTEERS
Quinn Berkman Group - Feb. 16-22 (12)
UWO Rotaract - Canada - Feb. 22-29 (22) - working with partner OnSite Relief
Wilkes University - March 1-8th (12)
James Madison University - March 1-8th (20)
Barry University - March 3-8th (20)
Emory College - March 8-16th (46)
Northpark College - March 8-16th (21)
Salem State College - March 8-16th (20)
Wake Forest University - March 8-16th (18)
First Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, TX - March 16-23rd (20)
Brooksdale Community College - March 16-23rd (10)
Sunybrooke University - March 16-23rd (47)
University of Maryland - March 16-23rd (33)
Greenhills HS - April 5-12th (15)
Mendocino HS - April 6-13th (23)
*we have availability the last week in March as well as the second, third and last week of April - book now!

RELIEF SPARK PROJECT LEADERS
Connor Malloy - Dec/Jan
Arndell LeBlanc - Dec/Jan8
Tim Dean - 2007/2008
Archana Dittakavi - 2007/2008
Jenny Bartlett - March 2008
Sonja Lopez - March 2008

VOLUNTEERS - NEW ORLEANS TEAM
Sidney Ray, Founder - 7,040 plus hours and counting!
Archana Dittakavi
Jenny Bartlett
Matti Hirpa - 2nd year
Sonja Lopez
Tim Dean
Sarah Hancock
Joel Thomas
Connor Malloy
Arndell LeBlanc
Don Pritchett
Emily White
Emma Scanlon
Ashley Mott
Katie Basile
James Pesuit
Alex Taransky
Katy Quian
Jaynce Joy
Denise Sudell
Denise and Michael Torres
Sarah Robb
Lauren Delfavero

...plus many others -we are updating this section!

To view "Special Thanks" 2007 - please click here