Evacuteer.Org

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• Evacuteer.org recruits, trains, and manages evacuation volunteers (Evacuteers) who assist with New Orleans public evacuation option called City Assisted Evacuation Plan (CAE). CAE activates when a mandatory evacuation is called in the city of New Orleans and is designed to move 40,000 New Orleanians without transportation. The group also activates volunteers to assist with relief for hazardous events in the southern Louisiana region, including the devastating flooding events in southeast Louisiana in August 2016 and the tornado in New Orleans East in February 2017. The City has successfully implemented the plan once, in advance of Hurricane Gustav (Sept. 2008), when 18,000 residents utilized the CAE. Evacuteer.org is an organization created out of lessons learned from that experience. Through an existing agreement with the City of New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (NOHSEP), the City of New Orleans has authorized evacuteer.org to manage all volunteers who work within the CAEP at 17 neighborhood pick-up points, at the Union Passenger Terminal (hereafter UPT) for evacuee processing, and at City Hall to assist with 311 hotline operation.The organization has been featured on CNN, ESPN, National Public Radio, the Huffington Post, the Times-Picayune, The New York Times, The LA Times, the Associated Press, ABC 26, Fox 8, WDSU and the Gambit for its community and citizen engagement strategies and preparing New Orleanians for future storms. The organization trains 500 citizens each hurricane season to assist in the event of an evacuation. Evacuspots are a public art project conducted in partnership with the Arts Council of New Orleans and NOHSEP. In 2013, the group led the campaign to install fifteen sculptures designed by public artist Douglas Kornfeld, to serve as a public awareness campaign for people to notice the location of the Evacuspots. Each statue features a stainless steel stick-figure with a hand in the air, measuring 14 feet tall, 800 lbs, and is embedded in 4-feet of concrete.
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  Headquarters:916 Lafayette Street , New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 504-358-0455

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  Website: https://www.evacuteer.org

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  Employees:8

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  Revenue:$1 - 10M

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  Legal Name:Evacuteer.Org

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• |  NAICS Code: 561599  |

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