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Welcome to the Beacon of Hope/University of New Orleans Community Recovery Project.

The Beacon of Hope-University of New Orleans Community Recovery Project (BUCRP) was borne to organize, support and document the creation of a Beacon GIS that allows flexibility in data collection, maintenance, mapping and analysis across multiple platforms using a variety of public and private data sources.

An important aspect of this is the ability for residents and other community based organizations to learn how to create and maintain the data with, or without, direct assistance from Beacon staff. There will be additional online documents to support the training and site maintenance.

GIS and Map Production

The Beacon of Hope Resource Center has developed a property condition survey that has been collected by Gentilly residents on the parcel level. Staff at the Beacon has standardized the survey so that City of New Orleans community members will receive the same training and collect neighborhood conditions data in the same format. This data tracks the progress of the neighborhood since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005). In order to extend access of this data to neighborhood groups, the Beacon of Hope Resource Center created a centralized data file and began to create a web-enabled repository, Smart Tech.  The data viewer will allow residents to view prior survey results and, with a secure log-in, update survey data from remote locations. Typically the frequency of the community survey is based upon a 3-month cycle.

5.15.2009

University of New Orleans news story! Check out the story on the UNO site or our own 'News' section

5.6.2009

'Maps' section added to the website which contains a selection of the maps that BUCRP has produced thus far!

5.4.2009

There is also a story in the 'News' section about Cornell students helping BUCRP with the recovery.

4.1.2009

New pictures added to the pictures section.

3.19.2009

Students from Cornell University are visiting to help complete residential surveys in the Lakeview neigborhood.Thanks so much for all the help! Visit the 'News' section to learn more.

2.9.2009

Training has started for a new group of Limitless Vistas (see photos and news page) and BOH was recently featured in the Times-Picayune! (news)

1.15.2009

Undergraduates from Cornell University stopped in to look at some of the progress BURCP has made in the Gentilly neighborhood and learned the importance of community GIS in the recovery process.