French Quarter Fest Parade
The NOPHC provides volunteers who give up a morning of work to support this community event which is designed to bring Tourism into the city over a special four day weekend.

Jazz Fest
We provide volunteers as traffic marshalls for the New Orleans Jazz & Hertiage Festival.

Run for Covenant House
We provide volunteers to supplement the Margaritaville Staff during their "Run for Covenant House." Covenant House is a local organization dedciated to helping homeless children.  You can find their website at http://www.covenanthouseno.org/.

Blood Drive for Justin Burns
This is probably our most successful charity project to date. Justin Burns is a young man who is the son of two of our members.  Justin was diagnosed with Luekemia this year and unfortunately his parent's insurance does not cover blood supplies, which Luekemia patients use a lot of. The nophchas stepped up to not only have members give blood (some on a regular and repeat basis) but also spread the word to our fellow Parrotheads around the country.   Justin's parents have reported that the outpouring of support has been overwhelming (both locally and from across the country) and is making a very positive impact on their situation.

Alzheimer's Walk
The NOPHC fields a team for the Annual Alzheimer's Walk.

The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation
A membership-based citizens' organization, it is the public's independent voice dedicated to restoring and preserving the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.

Through coordination of restoration activities, education, advocacy, monitoring of the regulatory process, and citizen action, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation works in partnership with all segments of the community to reclaim the waters of the Basin for this and future generations.

Walk to benefit the New Orleans Mission Homeless Shelter
The nophcfields a small team for this walk and holds a "Bar Crawl" fund-raiser to support the New Orleans Mission's Thanksgiving program. Through the fund-raiser alone, the NOPHC was able to feed 100 homeless people last Thanksgiving.

Protect Endangered Species at EcologyFund.com
Mexico is one of the five most biologically diverse countries on earth, home to 1/10 of all land species, (many of which live nowhere else). EcologyFund is helping Pronatura (Mexico's largest conservation organization) and The Wildlands Project (Pronatura's partner in the Sierra Madre Mexican Thick-billed parrot project) protect some of Mexico's most endangered species by conserving imperiled habitats. The Nature Conservancy (www.nature.org) is helping Pronatura purchase the Cuatro Cienegas property.

The Hunger Site Every 3.6 seconds, someone dies of hunger. 75% are children. You can make a difference. Visit The Hunger Site every day and donate cups of food for the world's hungry -- at no cost to you.

When you click on the "Give Free Food" button on the home page of The Hunger Site, funding is generated for the purchase and distribution of staple food to those in need. Funds are paid by site sponsors. In 2000, daily clicks yielded over $3.4 million for the frontline hunger relief organizations working to provide food and hope to the hungry around the world. That's over 20 million pounds of food made possible by people like you, who simply took a moment to click a button each day.

The Stanford Alzheimer and Amyloidogenic Disease Research Program
The Intel® Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program combats life-threatening illnesses by linking millions of PCs like yours into one of the most powerful computing resources in the world. This "virtual supercomputer" uses peer-to-peer technology to make unprecedented amounts of processing power available to medical researchers, thus accelerating the development of treatments and drugs with the potential to cure diseases.

The nophcsupports the The Stanford Alzheimer and Amyloidogenic Disease Research Program through The Intel® Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program. Currently, the NOPHC members have ten (10) PC's through The Intel® Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program & The Stanford Alzheimer and Amyloidogenic Disease Research Program. You can take part in this ground-breaking Internet-based project by lending your PC's unused resources to the greater good. There's no cost to download and run the program, and no noticeable impact on your computer's performance, because the medical research programs take advantage only of processing power you're not using. Learn more about the protein misfolding work being done by at Stanford University here or visit the Stanford website now. To put your PC to work on this project, go to http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Hard Rock Cafe Benefit for New York Vicitims of September 11th
New Orleans Parrotheads participated in a very quickly put together "Relief Party" at the Hard Rock Cafe for New York victims of September 11th.  Relief supplies and cash donations were gathered at the event and sent directly to the Hard Rock Cafe in New York where it was distributed directly to people in need after the event. This was also the start of the NOPHC's "Be a Patriot" campaign where our club encouraged our club members (and their friends and families) to go out and eat at a local restaurant or do one "tourist like" activity to help stimulate the New Orleans economy which took a beating following September 11th.