St. Bernard Project

St. Bernard Project (SBP) is an innovative, award-winning nonprofit disaster recovery organization that works to ensure that disaster-impacted citizens and communities recover in a prompt, efficient and predictable manner. SBP was founded in New Orleans in 2006, in response to Hurricane Katrina. Since then, SBP has rebuilt homes for over 500 families in greater New Orleans and Joplin, Missouri with the help of 50,000 volunteers, and is now working on-the-ground in communities impacted by Superstorm Sandy. SBP has been recognized by President Obama and the Clinton Global Initiative among others, and founder Liz McCartney was named CNN's Hero of the Year in 2008.