Brees Dream Foundation

Yesterday, Barack Obama made his first trip to New Orleans as a president. He toured parts of New Orleans that are still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina and promised residents that mistakes made after Katrina won’t be repeated. He even held a town-hall event at the first—and only— school to reopen in the Ninth Ward since the storm. According to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, nine New Orleans neighborhoods still have less than half of the active residential addresses they did in 2005.

Since its inception in 1999, Operation Kids has raised, managed and dispersed more than $9 million to more than 85 effective children's charities in 50 states and 25 countries. Lives have been changed through your donations! Some examples include: