The After the Storm Foundation was established to offer assistance and support not only to North Rampart Street Community Center (formerly St. Mark's Community Center) (the organization at the heart of the neighborhood where the musical was performed) but also to other already existing relief organizations currently serving the youth of New Orleans.

Additionally, the 501C3 non-profit foundation will collect and channel funds (raised in part from future showings of the film) back into the New Orleans community at large, focusing especially on underwriting projects and organizations devoted to the community’s youth. The film will also be used as a springboard to launch a nationwide program to encourage high school drama clubs and community theaters everywhere to raise money for already existing relief organizations in New Orleans that are working with children and the arts.

The first step in the foundation’s creation was the formation of a life-to-life link between the New York theater and film community and North Rampart Street Community Center. By getting to know its people and programs, the foundation is better able to assist community center staff members in setting up new opportunities for youth and buoying up already existing programs -- by providing the needed funds and offering technical and moral support. By creating ties to local arts organizations, the foundation also intends to leave behind the means and personnel to keep music and theater training programs going and to set up video and film archiving capabilities so that the kids can continue to tell their own stories.