Final Report

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Hands On New Orleans CIGNA FOUNDATION

• Final Report
• MAY 2008

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The Project Partners
Hands On New Orleans, meets critical community
needs through the effective mobilization of
volunteers in New Orleans. To date, more than
4,200 visiting volunteers have delivered over
316,000 hours of service focused on the recovery
and rebuilding of New Orleans. CIGNA, The
company provides health care and related benefits
offered through the workplace. Key product lines
include health care products and services
(medical, pharmacy, behavioral health, clinical
information management, dental and vision
benefits, and case and disease management) and
group disability, life and accident insurance.
In addition, CIGNA also provides life, accident,
health and expatriate employee benefits
insurance coverage in selected international
markets, primarily in Asia and Europe.
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Day of Service

• CIGNA FOUNDATION and Hands On New Orleans joined
  together for a day of service in New Orleans to
  help
• out a local school with school supply kits

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A School In Need

• Carver Elementary, was the school selected to
  receive school supply kits. Carver Elementary is
  a modular campus composed of trailers for
  students who had
• their campus ruined by the storm. The students
  at Carver Elementary are in critical need

With 87 of the school population on free or
reduced lunch, often students do not have the
necessary school supplies for day to day
learning. This results in teachers coming out of
pocket to help students, and parents having to
make hard choices between household needs and
school supplies. Likewise the Recovery School
District overwhelmed with school repairs post the
storm, struggles to provide adequate classroom
and student supplies.
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Projects Of the Day

• Volunteers worked in teams to assembly much
  needed
• school supply kits for students

School Demographics Grades PK - 8 Total
Students 349 African-American 97 Free Lunch
87.00 Source SIS Report as of Oct 1, 2007
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The Result

• 500 School Supply Kits were assembled.
• Crayons
• Pencil Shapners
• Pencils
• Pens
• Highlighters
• Erasers
• Notepads
• Inspirational Quote
• Note from CIGNA

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Service Learning Team Building
Volunteers heard from the Principal Bailey, About
Carver Elementary its history, and how the
storm affected the school
Volunteers participate and compete for prizes in
a trivia game based on New Orleans Recovery Facts
and CIGNA trivia
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Students At Carver Took Time To Say Thanks
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Students At Carver Took Time To Say Thanks
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Volunteer Impact

• Volunteers Engaged 60
• Total Volunteer Hours 120
• Supplies Materials 3,000
• Additional Gift to Hands On 5,000
• Value of volunteer hours 2,341.21
• Total Value of Investment in
• Carver Elementary Hands On New Orleans
• 10,341.20
• 1 of hours x 19.51, the National Standard
  Volunteer Monetary Rate,
• http//www.independentsector.org/programs/researc
  h/volunteer_time.html

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