Hurricane Katrina, August 2005

CCC has partnered with Aidmatrix to develop a product donation system available through the web sites of both organizations.
This resource matched the requests for supplies received from local and state chambers in the Gulf Coast with donations from businesses around the country.
CCC and IBM partnered to develop a job posting site for those whose jobs were lost because of Katrina. 10,000 Katrina-related jobless claims were filed in the first week following the disaster, and that number swelled into the hundreds of thousands.
CCC, with the US Department of Education, posted information on how to help displaced students continue their education.
It assisted the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry in establishing a small business relief fund to help Gulf Coast small enterprises remain solvent.
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