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Salvation Army helping to build local energy-efficient homes

April 02, 2010

The Salvation Army and a consortium of builders and neighborhood groups announced plans Thursday to build 125 new, energy-efficient homes in Broadmoor, Gentilly, Algiers and eastern St. Tammany -- all to be occupied by police officers, teachers and members of other key occupations who would receive up to $75,000 in forgivable loans to help buy the homes and put down roots in those communities.

EnviRenew Awards $10 Million Toward New Orleans Green Home Projects

April 01, 2010

The Salvation Army will announce today $10 Million in EviRenew Recovery Grants for 5 New Orleans neighborhoods. 125 Grants of $75,000 will be awarded to assist these deserving areas in developing Green Home sustainability projects.

Splintered reality, renewed dreams

March 26, 2010

EnviRenew is rebuilding home in New Orleans

EnviRenew 12 Days of Christmas

February 07, 2009

"The Twelve Days of Christmas starts our EnviRenew Initiative, and there is no better day to start this initiative than Twelfth Night, a celebration of the day that the three kings brought gifts to the Baby Jesus" says Captain Ethan Frizzell, Area Commander of the Salvation Army of Greater New Orleans. "Over the next three years the EnviRenew Initiative will renovate 125 homes, build 125 new homes, and create an ongoing alternative giving program in the Twelve Days of Christmas. All this will le