A year later, not enough has been done to get New Orleans back on her feet.

One positive thing is that there has been a lot of press coverage. In the New York Times alone, here’s an article about shops trying to recover, here’s one about the famous Creole chef Leah Chase and her efforts to bring back her restaurant Dooky Chase, and here’s a discussion of the New Orleans diaspora and the reactions to, and from, the places they now live.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune offered heroic coverage of the story as it happened, and helped many people find their way out of the city. They’re offering too much information now for me to really single out particular articles.

There are a lot of ways to help out.

One way to give some general help to everybody is to give to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund. I don’t really know a lot about the fund, but it seems to select organizations that serve communities in need. Some more specialized ways to help follow.

For fans of the amazing New Orleans cooking tradition, there’s the New Orleans Hospitality Workers Disaster Relief Fund. I couldn’t find a Web site, so this is the best I could do.

For music fans, the easiest thing might be to pick up the album From the Big Apple to the Big Easy, which features a bunch of New Orleans musicians as well as a bunch not from New Orleans. A highlight is Allen Toussaint, who sounds like he’s singing a song even when he’s just chatting with the crowd. Another option for the music lover is the Tipitina’s Foundation, established by the well-known club. Fats Domino is contributing there.

Thanks for any help you can give. Spending money there is also a fun way to spread the love.