Important Links
Turkey Creek-North Gulfport Schools Reunion
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STEPS - For Communities Worth Coming Home To
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WaterKeeper
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Environmental Justice for All - TOUR'06
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Virginia Tech.
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William Winter Institute for Racial Reconcitiation
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| Turkey Creek Documentary Filmmaker Leah Mahan ("Holding Ground," "Sweet Old Song") has been working on a documentary about Turkey Creek since 2001. |
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Enterprise Corporation of the Delta
ECD is a not-for-profit organization that provides lending and technical assistance to Delta businesses and entrepreneurs through seven regional offices. Targeting small to medium-sized businesses including those owned by minorities and women, ECD has a track record that speaks for itself. In particular, ECD oversees the Hope Community Credit Union.
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The NAACP is the nation's most significant civil rights organization. From the ballot box to the classroom, the dedicated workers, organizers, and leaders who forged this great organization and maintain its status as a champion of social justice, fought long and hard to ensure that the voices of African Americans would be heard. |
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Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
The Committee's major objective is to use the skills and resources of the bar to obtain equal opportunity for minorities by addressing factors that contribute to racial justice and economic opportunity. Given our nation's history of racial discrimination, de jure segregation, and the de facto inequities that persist, the Lawyers' Committee's primary focus is to represent the interest of African Americans in particular, other racial and ethnic minorities, and other victims of discrimination, where doing so can help to secure justice for all racial and ethnic minorities.
The Lawyers' Committee implements its mission and objectives by marshaling the pro bono resources of the bar for litigation, public policy advocacy, and other forms of service by lawyers to the cause of civil rights.
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Mississippi United Methodist Conference
UMC seeks to be a living expression of God’s love by alleviating the suffering of those impacted by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast and throughout the state of Mississippi. Their goals include
restoring persons to safe, permanent homes as soon as possible, to be attentive to and, where possible, address spiritual, emotional, and other needs of these persons, to affirm, encourage, and offer support to local churches in the recovery effort, to organize and deploy volunteers to maximize recovery to extend beyond what congregations can accomplish on their own, to partner with other organizations where possible to enhance efforts and to tell the story - keep people abreast of the amazing work being done by local churches and United Methodist volunteers.
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| Great places are attractive and rich physical settings for human interaction. MIG’s creative planning and design generates innovative solutions for neighborhood and community revitalization, creating a “sense of place” that helps make experiences memorable, functional and attractive to users. Our projects respond to the regulatory environment, regional and local climactic conditions, the ecological niche of the area, and the cultures and history of place. MIG provides the framework for well-designed places with pedestrian-scaled streets, thoughtful building form and scale, and great public places that respect historic traditions, environmental qualities and other unique aspects of the particular setting. |  |
Sierra Club Mississippi |
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Audubon MS - Coastal Projects |
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Mississippi Urban Forest Council
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Mississippi Heritage Trust
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Land Trust for the MS Coastal Plain
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National Trust for Historic Preservation
Our nation’s leading advocate of historic preservation, representatives of the National Trust have visited Turkey Creek several times since Katrina struck. NTHP president Richard Moe and TCCI director Derrick Evans both testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census on November 1, 2005. Soon thereafter, the Trust provided $10,000 for emergency shoring of historical structures to the Turkey Creek Homeowners Association.
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Mississippi Center for Justice
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi Center for Justice has worked with TCCI and other coastal Mississippi community groups to link housing recovery and justice with heritage documentation. Dozens of volunteer law students, under the guidance of MCJ attorney Reilly Morse, have walked neighborhood streets in search of hidden gems of coastal heritage and housing resources.
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Governers Commission on Recovery and Renewal
The Governor’s Commission focuses on giving local leaders access to ideas and information that will help them decide what their region will look like five, ten, even twenty or thirty years from now. The Commission is advisory in nature. The final decisions on implementation will almost exclusively be made by local officials and private investors, not Jackson or Washington.
The Governor’s Commission is funded by private donations. It accepts no government funding and solicits no money.
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MS Department of Archives and History
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, established in 1902, is the second oldest department of archives and history in the United States. Today the Department administers the following major public programs: • state archives and library • museums and historic sites • historic preservation programs • public records management • publication programs |
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MS Department of Environmental Quality
The mission of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of present and future generations of Mississippians by conserving and improving our environment and fostering wise economic growth through focused research and responsible regulation.
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MS Department of Marine Resources The mission of Comprehensive Resource Management Plan (CRMP) is “to develop a plan to sustain Mississippi’s coastal resources and to provide for a healthy economy in the coastal area”. CRMP is focused on developing a comprehensive strategy, along with the necessary tools, to manage the impacts of economic growth and development on the environment of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Key impacts of concern included non-point source water pollution and the loss of critical wildlife habitat. The objective of the CRMP process is to build the capacity of state and local governments to manage and protect coastal wetlands and marine resources in Mississippi by coordinating agency efforts, developing the necessary partnerships among public and private entities, and integrating wetland protection and management into the lifestyle of the coastal community. The principle effort to reach that goal will be organized and conducted by the CRMP under the auspices of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. In the CRMP process there are 18 city and county partners involved. These partners include the 11 coastal cities and the coastal zone counties of Jackson, Harrison, Hancock, Pearl River, Stone, and George. Since January 1, 2001, CRMP has trained over 200 local, county, and state land use planners to use ArcView GIS. |
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USDA National Resource Conservation Service The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides technical and financial assistance to help agricultural producers and others care for the land. The assistance we provide is based on an understanding that the land – the landscape as a whole – must be the focus of conservation. Using this comprehensive approach, the people we help are able to help the land function as a living sustainable system that provides a high standard of living and a quality of life for today and for future generations |
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Hurricane Recovery Resources The US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) mission is to increase homeownership, support community development and increase access to affordable housing free from discrimination. To fulfill this mission, HUD will embrace high standards of ethics, management and accountability and forge new partnerships--particularly with faith-based and community organizations--that leverage resources and improve HUD's ability to be effective on the community level. William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation The Winter Institute is working with TCCI to expand the reach of its restorative vision to other marginalized communities African American communities on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, particularly with respect to endangered and historical resources threatened by the recovery process. We hope to partner with local groups to establish an African American History and Heritage Task Force. The work underscores the Insitute’s understanding that reconciliation is about current realities, not just about past injustices. |
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