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Mission

The New Orleans Preservation Coalition and Alliance for Response serves as an alliance of concerned organizations, agencies, and individuals who recognize the need to sustain and protect the area’s cultural heritage. The coalition’s mission is to provide opportunities for preservation education, disaster response, and related activities within the New Orleans area.

 

Chair

Jennifer Waxman

Contact us

Email: nolapreservationcoalition@gmail.com

Background

The New Orleans Preservation Coalition (NOPC) is a volunteer-run, 501(c)3 founded in 2018. Our origins trace back to a 2014 IMLS multi-institutional strategic planning grant which recommended our community “bring together cultural heritage and emergency management professionals at the local level, where virtually all initial disaster response occurs.” With this recommendation and momentum, this group of core heritage community members applied for and were awarded a Performing Arts Readiness New Network grant in 2018 to launch and establish a local network of community responders as a part of the national Alliance for Response (AFR) network. 


What We Do

Does your staff and volunteers know what to do before an emergency and/or disaster? Are you  prepared to protect your institution’s unique documents, photos, recordings, artifacts, works of  art, and other valuable assets? The NOPC can help you prepare! We aim to: 

  • Provide 24/7 access to a disaster response supply cache and a network of others who  provide mutual aid in a time of crisis.

  • Serve as a conduit for information during emergency response and recovery from the  New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. 

  • Provide and facilitate information, training, tabletop exercises, and educational  opportunities related to natural, cultural, and historical preparedness, mitigation,  emergency response, recovery and continuity of operations of your organization.

Membership

Individuals and institutions connected to cultural heritage preservation, visual and performing arts, archives and libraries, emergency preparedness, disaster response and recovery.

Kick-off Forum

May 2018

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